Lead Developer, Moodle

F_ITS Education

Full Time

77802BR

Job Summary

As the Education IT Moodle Lead Developer, this position will be responsible for customization and upstream contribution of core Moodle code as well as development of UCSF and open source community plugins, themes, and other integrations to enhance and support the UCSF education mission. With a focus on long term maintainability and quality this position will be expected to maintain UCSF’s customizations, contribute to the open-source Moodle ecosystem, and develop long term technical strategy with the goal of ensuring inclusive, streamlined and transformative teaching and learning experiences for users across all areas of the education mission. Most of the time in this role will be spent building features, fixing issues, ensuring accessibility, and improving performance and reliability of the PHP Moodle learning management system.

The Moodle Lead will apply advanced software concepts and objectives to educational technology development projects of broad scope and complexity, working in concert with developers, user experience experts, site reliability engineers, QA, support, and product ownership. These projects often involve challenges with sourcing data from systems of record, applying accessible patterns, and translating user stories into shippable technical features. The developer regularly resolves highly complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. The Educational IT Moodle Lead has a full understanding of industry practices of development and practical experience building and maintaining systems as part of a team.

The Moodle Lead is a committed member of and contributor to the open-source Moodle community, and you will demonstrate best practices for DevOps, code review, secure coding, testing, and relevant policies and procedures of a large academic enterprise. With a focus on equitable access, this position uses exceptional communication skills to lead and work within diverse, cross-functional teams to ensure all campus users have an optimal educational technology environment for 21st-century health sciences education.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

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Department Description

UCSF is technologically and organizationally complex, with both centralized and departmental IT units providing support for enterprise and specialized services. UCSF IT provides infrastructure, network, security, analytics, integration, and application support services, and essential to the organization’s ability to support growth, mitigate security risk, and manage, store and share sensitive information. To better serve the Education Mission, UCSF IT has recently created a new Education IT unit, which is in a period of growth. Led by the Associate CIO for Education, this unit is charged with developing collaborative relationships, processes and services that appropriately enable the education community to execute their mission, while keeping UCSF’s IT environment secure and sufficiently cost effective. With a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, this IT Education team is actively working to establish a computing architecture and services to support digital equity and digital transformation to support and advance the UCSF education mission.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years personal, professional, and/or academic experience in a related area
• Advanced skill with PHP
• Demonstrated skills with version control
• Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing code to Moodle Core
• Experience building and maintaining Moodle Plugins and Themes
• Advanced skill with JavaScript
• Advanced experience with the identification and use of open-source code, libraries, and communities
• Experience writing and maintaining automated tests in a continuous integration pipeline

About UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world’s leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.

Pride Values

UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence – also known as our PRIDE values.

In addition to our PRIDE values, UCSF is committed to equity – both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available at diversity.ucsf.edu

Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of California San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Job Code and Payroll Title

000652 APPLICATIONS PROGR 4

Job Category

Clinical Systems / IT Professionals

Bargaining Unit

99 - Policy-Covered (No Bargaining Unit)

Location

Flexible (combination of onsite and remote work), Mission Center Building (SF), Parnassus Heights (SF), San Francisco, CA

Additional Shift Details

M-F, 8-5