Job description
ChronicleTech Solutions is seeking a Digital Archiving Specialist to join our Records & Digital Preservation team in Chicago. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable archival systems for institutional repositories, corporate records, and cultural heritage assets.
As a key member of our data governance practice, you will collaborate with IT, collections management, and legal teams to ensure long-term accessibility, authenticity, and integrity of born-digital and digitized content. You will advocate best practices in metadata, preservation actions, and access policies while driving continuous improvement across workflows.
We offer a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and an opportunity to shape the future of digital archives across diverse sectors including higher education, government, and cultural institutions.
Responsibility
- Lead and implement digital archiving workflows, including ingest, metadata capture, preservation actions, and access controls.
- Design and maintain metadata schemas (Dublin Core, PREMIS, METS) and support controlled vocabularies and taxonomies.
- Administer and optimize repository platforms (e.g., ArchivesSpace, AtoM) and ensure data integrity, backups, and disaster recovery planning.
- Collaborate with IT and security teams to enforce information governance, access controls, and compliance requirements.
- Develop and document standard operating procedures, validation checks, and QA for ingest and preservation.
- Conduct audits of archival holdings, create finding aids, and support discovery through search enhancements.
- Lead digitization and born-digital workflows, including conversion, format maturity, and long-term preservation planning.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Library Science, Archives, Information Science, or a related field; Master's preferred.
- 3+ years hands-on experience in digital archiving, digital preservation, or records management.
- Strong understanding of metadata standards (Dublin Core, PREMIS, METS) and taxonomy development.
- Experience with repository platforms such as ArchivesSpace, AtoM, or similar; SQL/ scripting familiarity (Python preferred).
- Familiarity with data governance, security, and retention policies; ability to translate policy into technical decisions.
- Excellent project management, documentation, and communication skills; ability to work cross-functionally.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable archival workflows and contribute to continuous improvement.