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Albany, NY 12222
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Senior Applications Developer

Senior Applications Developer
About University at Albany:
Established in 1844 and designated a University Center of the State University of New York in 1962, the University at Albany's broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, research, and public service engages a diverse student body of more than 17,000 students in nine schools and colleges across three campuses.
Located in Albany, New York, New York State's capital, the University is convenient to Boston, New York City, and the Adirondacks.
Listing description
Information Technology Services (ITS), the central IT provider at the University at Albany, seeks candidates for a Senior Applications Developer to support the academic, research, and business needs of this R1 institution. The University's constantly evolving, and increasingly complex technical environment encompasses more than 250 applications, including the student information system supporting over 17,000 students. The Senior Applications Developer plays a key function in assuring that enterprise applications and systems are robust, secure, and compliant. They have a deep knowledge of how applications fit into the broader technical environment, are adept at working with both on-premises and cloud-located applications and are comfortable analyzing complex requirements to implement highly effective solutions. They ensure applications support a positive user practice and are compliant with industry standards and best practices.
The Senior Applications Developer is a member of a team of IT professionals, a group with wide-ranging responsibilities who work closely to ensure the integration, interopercapability, and availcapability of campus technology resources. They enjoy collaborating with other technology professionals to provide solutions and have the technical skill to evaluate, design, develop, test, implement, and maintain applications, to meet the evolving needs of a wide variety of disciplines and departments. They understand the importance of assessing functionality, performance, risk, and security.
The Senior Applications Developer has intellectual curiosity, keen analytical skills, and quickly grasps new concepts. They are confident in their knowledge and capability to make recommendations on behalf of the University's enterprise application environment and work across ITS and business units to provide input and skills to a range of services.
Main Responsibilities:
Assure the delivery of robust, secure enterprise applications that meet all regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices:

   » Design, develop, and customize enterprise applications to meet business and technical needs, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient solutions that align with organizational standard.
   » Develop and maintain API integrations using MuleSoft to facilitate seamless interopercapability between systems, ensuring scalcapability and relicapability, while collaborating with the ITS Integration Developer to manage and support MuleSoft development, including upgrades and continuing operational tasks.
   » Support continuous integration and development (CI/CD) efforts, ensuring efficient automation of development, testing, and deployment processes.
   » Provide continuing development support for custom applications, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, and implementing new features as required.
   » Assist in the evaluation, selection, and management of development platforms, IDEs, and tools across ITS, ensuring consistency and alignment with industry best practices and keeping tools up to date.
   » Collaborate with cross-functional ITS teams to diagnose and address technical challenges, delivering creative solutions that support strategic goals.
   » Work with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical specifications, ensuring solutions meet both immediate and long-term objectives.
Provide day-to-day operational ownership for assigned applications including documentation, standards, patching, upgrades, configuration, management, continuous monitoring, and performance management:
   » Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, ensuring standards, guidelines, and controls are clear for both development and operational activities, while establishing and documenting development standards and best practices to ensure consistent use of platforms, tools, and secure development practices across the ITS development teams.
   » Participate in application patching, upgrades, and configuration management.
   » Collaborate with the ITS Web Developer to ensure clarity in standards, guidelines, and controls for development activities, while aligning and documenting best practices to maintain consistent use of platforms, tools, and secure development practices across the ITS development teams.
   » Monitor application performance and proactively troubleshoot issues to ensure high availcapability, relicapability, and optimal performance across the application landscape.
   » Ensure application security by consistently implementing and enforcing ITS security standards, policies, and best practices, and staying in compliance with regulatory requirements.
   » Recommend and implement improvements to tools, processes, and applications located on evolving best practices, new technologies, and operational needs, while assessing and adopting emerging trends and technologies within the developer ecosystem.
   » Provide technical skills and support to customers, services teams, and project teams acting as a subject matter expert for both technical inquiries and operational issues.
   » Keep skills current by developing and following a professional development plan.
   » Perform other related tasks as assigned to support ITS objectives and ensure the prosperous management of applications and services.
Functional and managery Relationships:
   » Reports to: Manager of Application Operations and Development
   » Supervises the following positions: None
   » Interacts with: ITS; academic, research and business units; external vendors/contractors/consultants; peer institutions
Requirements:
   » candidates must demonstrate excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
   » candidates must demonstrate the capability to organize work, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple and changing priorities, ensuring timely delivery, high quality, and attention to detail.
   » candidates must demonstrate the capability to engage with customers to analyze, document, and translate business requirements into effective technical designs, workflows, business processes, and specifications.
   » candidates must demonstrate the capability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical details effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
   » candidates must be available to provide scheduled support and consultation outside normal business hours, including occasional evenings, holidays, or weekends withing reasonable professional obligation and expectation.
   » candidates must be able to report to campus in-person on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and as needed. this job offer is eligible to telecommute on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with managery approval, following a probationary period.
Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications required

   » A bachelor's degree from a college or university accredited by a U.S. Department of Education (DOE) or internationally recognized accrediting organization.
   » Three or more years of practice in software development, with a focus on designing and building enterprise-level integrations using APIs.
   » Proficiency in programming languages such as Java or Python, with a deep knowledge of modern development frameworks like React or Angular.
   » Strong knowledge and practice with RESTful API development, including API security, versioning, and best practices.
   » candidates must demonstrate an capability to develop inclusive and equitable relationships within our diverse campus community
   » candidates must demonstrate an capability to support diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and belonging relative to their function
Preferred Qualifications required
   » practice working in higher education and/or familiarity with the unique needs of an academic institution.
   » Hands-on practice in developing integrations using MuleSoft or a comparable enterprise integration platform.
   » practice with PeopleSoft PeopleTools and its development tools, including PeopleCode, Application Engine, and Application Designer, for building and maintaining enterprise applications.
   » Demonstrated capability to design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant integrations across both cloud-located and on-premises systems.
   » practice with cloud technologies and platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
   » practice with Git and GitHub, including branching strategies, managing pull requests, and leveraging GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation.
   » practice with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL).
   » Proven practice managing vendor relationships and evaluating external solutions to fit enterprise needs.
Additional Information:
Professional Rank and income Grade: SL-4, $85,000-$95,000
Special Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this job offer. If you currently need sponsorship or will need it in the future to maintain employment authorization, you do not meet eligibility requirements.
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or Clery Act, mandates that all Title IV institutions, without exception, prepare, publish and distribute an Annual Security Report. This report consists of two basic parts: disclosure of the University's crime statistics for the past three years; and disclosures regarding the University's current campus security policies. The University at Albany's Annual Security Report is available in portable document format [PDF] by clicking this link
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Application Instructions:
candidates MUST submit the following documents:

   » Resume
   » Cover letter stating all the required minimum qualifications and any of the applicable preferred qualifications
   » List of 3 professional references with e-mail addresses and telephone numbers
Note : After submitting your resume, the subsequent pages give you instructions for uploading additional documents (i.e. cover letter etc.).
A review of applications will start on December 9, 2024 and the search will remain open until the position is filled.

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Job Location: Albany, NY 12222, Other
Address: Albany, NY 12222
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Post Date: 12/04/2024 / Viewed 102 times
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