Application Developer, Intermediate

Application Developer, Intermediate

Georgia State University

Instructional Innovation and Technology

Applications Solutions

Why work at Georgia State University (GSU)? GSU is listed as the No. 1 public university for undergraduate teaching and No. 2 for the most innovative university (U.S. News & World Report, 2023). It is a thriving research institution that provides a challenging and collaborative intellectual environment for its staff, faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.

Putting technology to work at Georgia State University. Georgia State is a leading force in the digital transformation of higher education. Georgia State's central technology services group, Instructional Innovation and Technology (IIT), seeks to inspire, support, and enable innovative solutions to advance learning, research, and economic enterprise. IIT is leading the pursuit to find solutions to the unique challenges associated with information technology and serve as leaders in a global network of knowledge creation and sharing by earning the role of valued partners and trusted advisors for evolving technology solutions, discovering, creating and implementing new models of higher education for a community of distinct learners, creating and supporting innovative solutions that improve the lives of our students, our city and our state, attracting, developing and retaining talented and capable professionals and fostering an innovative culture of leaders where collaboration, ownership, creativity and efficiency are key.

Do you enjoy seeking solutions and providing exceptional customer service? Are you passionate about technology, your clients’ success, and looking to make a difference? Can you help us continue to climb the ladder of success? If so, you are just who we need.

Georgia State University’s Instructional Innovation and Technology (IIT) is seeking Application Developer, Intermediate to join our vibrant and growing team. Under the general supervision of the Director, Strategic Initiative, the Application Developer Intermediate is a professional staff position within Application Design and Development, Strategic Initiatives unit. Duties require moderate interaction with internal University customers and external vendors, independent judgment, and sound decision making.

This position receives general direction from management and operates at variable levels of independence. Regarding leadership responsibilities, they work at a moderate level of independence.

The fundamental responsibility is development, implementation and/or maintenance (i.e. support and repair) of application-based solutions. This includes responsibilities and deliverables that span all phases of the application development lifecycle. The person in this position must possess comprehensive knowledge, expertise, and work independently through each of the phases of the software development lifecycle.

This team member will be responsible for project plans, documentation, scheduling and facilitating small project meetings, coordinating, activities of project team, and reporting project status to both management and customer with projects, tasks, or applications to which they are assigned.

One must consult and collaborate with personnel in other technical departments to coordinate activities.

Also, one will need to possess comprehensive knowledge and demonstrated expertise regarding relevant software development tools.

In this position, one prepares activity and status reports regarding the activities to which they are assigned, and any other duties and/or responsibilities as may be determined appropriate by the employee’s direct supervisor.

OTHER EXCITING RESPONSIBILITIES

The scope of responsibilities for this position will include these essential duties but is not limited to the following:

·       Application Support. Responds to customer reports of problems, system performance anomalies, and /or general inquiries. Includes application code troubleshooting and design, programming, testing, and debugging of software patches/fixes.

·       Requirements/Systems Analysis. Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding. Include analysis and documentation of business processes and functional requirements. Considers the business implications of the application of technology to the business environment. Translates functional requirements and prepares detailed program specifications from which programs will be written.

·       Application Programming. Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

·       Project Management. Responsible for identifying appropriate resources needed, developing project plan/schedule, scheduling and facilitating project meetings, coordinating activities of project team, and reporting project status to both management and customer.

·       May provide version control and configuration control for software supported by the team.

  WHAT MAKES GSU A GREAT PLACE? 

·       Generous benefits, including health, dental, vision, tuition assistance program, retirement, etc.

·       A knowledge-sharing organization that works collaboratively with diverse partners.

·       A flexible work environment.

·       Professional development opportunities.

Minimum Hiring Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and two years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.

Preferred Hiring Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications: 

Modern Enterprise software development experience (CICD, event-driven computing, lifecycle management)

 Expert-level web technologies knowledge

Modern web/mobile authentication protocols

Advanced HTML, Javascript/Typescript proficienct

 REST API

Advanced data management and integration skills

SQL/Extract-Transform-Load/data streaming

 Experience with the following specific technologies:

Angular

 Oracle

ElasticSearch

AWS (CloudFormation, S3, API Gateway, Lambda)

Node JS

 GitHub (GitHub Actions)

Docker

 
Special Instructions: 

To be fully considered for this position all candidates at the time of submission must provide the following documents that clearly provides proof of education and relevant experience,

• A complete and accurate GSU application
• Resume
• Cover letter.
• Three professional references. One must be a current or former supervisor.