Jobs at OCLC, Inc.

Serve as a strategic quality leader by defining testing vision, organizational quality standards, quality KPIs, and innovative automation practices. Lead scalable test framework improvements, risk-based testing, architectural quality discussions, and early QA involvement. Apply AI-assisted testing for test generation, self-healing automation, predictive risk analysis, and failure analysis while establishing responsible-use guardrails. Collaborate with senior leadership to drive quality culture, roadmaps, and best practices across projects.

Principal Software Engineer serving as a technical leader for resource-sharing initiatives. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, designing distributed systems and microservices, evaluating technical trade-offs, mentoring engineers, improving engineering quality and security, collaborating with architects and product leaders, and integrating AI-enabled development tools. The role requires extensive Java and Spring expertise, React and TypeScript experience, PostgreSQL proficiency, Linux-based systems development, CI/CD, automated testing, and enterprise software delivery experience.

Supports and enhances a library platform by managing Linux infrastructure, automating deployments and configuration, improving monitoring and observability, resolving incidents, supporting customer deployments, strengthening CI/CD, documenting procedures, and mentoring technical teams.

Develop and support a high-throughput Java/Spring link-harvesting and evaluation service. Responsibilities include designing features, building RESTful integrations, testing, debugging, performance optimization, database-driven development, code reviews, observability, CI/CD delivery, and collaboration across distributed teams. The role also uses AI-assisted development and explores ML/LLM applications to improve link-evaluation accuracy and efficiency.

Leads technical teams of up to nine people supporting the OCLC Wise platform. Responsibilities include people leadership, talent development, delivery management, capacity and resource planning, operational excellence, technical decision support, platform reliability, risk management, KPI monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Operations, Security, QA, and Customer Support.

Lead software development initiatives for a global SaaS platform: design, develop, and test complex front- and back-end systems. Drive architecture, code quality, and mentorship; oversee multiple projects and teams. Solve scalability, metadata, search, and asset-processing challenges; collaborate with product and leadership to define roadmaps and integrate AI into the development process.

Lead design, development, and optimization of search technologies powering global library discovery. Own Solr-based search platforms, integrate streaming and batch data (Kafka, Hadoop), implement Java/Python solutions, and collaborate with product, research, and operations to improve relevance, performance, and scalability.

Lead and develop QA/Test Engineers across products; define and execute testing strategies (manual, automated, performance, accessibility, API/UI); drive QA modernization with automation and AI-assisted testing; manage QA planning, metrics, release readiness, CI/CD quality gates, test environments, and stakeholder collaboration to improve delivery confidence and product reliability.

Design, implement, and operate key components of a high-throughput link harvesting and evaluation pipeline. Lead architecture and technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, adopt AI/ML (LLMs) in production, ensure system reliability and low impact on other services, and maintain high code quality with CI/CD and production support.

Serve as the primary Workday HRIS gatekeeper for master data management, administering Absence, Benefits, Time Tracking, Learning and Payroll modules. Maintain data integrity through audits, reporting, testing, upgrades, user support, training, and cross-team collaboration to align HR systems with business goals.

Manage bibliographic and holdings data lifecycle: ingest, normalize, enrich, match, and troubleshoot data quality issues. Support automated pipelines, use Power BI for monitoring, apply AI-assisted tools for record matching, document workflows, and coordinate with vendors while learning scripting and cloud data concepts under regular supervision.

Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams, contribute to design discussions and code reviews, implement new features, optimize performance and scalability, and integrate AI tools and frameworks into the development process.

Lead a small cross-functional engineering team as a hands-on technical manager (25–40% coding). Own architecture, cloud-native services on AWS, CI/CD, observability, incident readiness, ETL/data pipelines (Python), API and integration design, backlog planning, and team coaching including hiring, performance, and career development.

Develop and manage product development processes for Global Product Management; maintain portfolio tracking of business cases, ensure prioritization and handoffs, enforce use of Aha! and Jira, monitor backlogs, publish roadmaps, manage GPM intranet, run post-approval reviews, and develop KPIs and cross-functional reports on revenue, win/loss and customer feedback.

Own and drive product development for WorldCat data ingest, enrichment, and interoperability. Define strategy, maintain roadmap, lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with marketing/finance, analyze markets, and support portfolio planning to modernize an entity-first semantic data layer.

Manage technical product planning and development for EzProxy, producing roadmaps, launch plans, and specifications. Lead cross-functional teams, assess technologies, collaborate with engineering and architects, contribute to portfolio strategy, and ensure user requirements and product lifecycle practices are met.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor to senior leaders, driving talent management, workforce planning, organizational design, change management, leadership coaching, employee relations, and HR analytics to improve organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Lead design and development to modernize a legacy C-based EZproxy platform into a scalable, secure Java-based access management solution. Build and deliver services, evaluate AI-assisted tools, solve complex system issues, perform architecture and performance analysis, and participate in production support and modernization planning.

Design, develop, and test complex web software and systems. Provide technical guidance, participate in architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, ensure code quality, mentor team members, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-quality solutions.

Design, develop, and support scalable cloud-native full-stack applications using Node.js/TypeScript, Svelte, and Rust. Manage PostgreSQL databases, Linux servers, Kubernetes/ECS deployments, and AWS services. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable SaaS features.