[Hired] Now Hiring: Developer 2

The College of Science & Engineering is seeking a Second-level professional Application/Software Developer to join its Web & Software Development Team. The focus of this position is on  developing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting a broad range of complex programs, websites, and/or systems. A successful candidate will be an experienced professional who is able to work as part of a Scrum development team.

Salary Range: $80-85k

Responsibilities

Application & Web Development        50%

• Serve as a subject matter expert through all phases of system analysis and development.
• Design and develop well integrated programs and systems that meet present and future business needs.
• Conduct a full range of programming tasks, including program design, program coding, debugging, and documentation for a variety of applications, systems, or websites.
• Provide procedural and technical guidance to less experienced staff.
• Perform back-end development work for the College of Science and Engineering drupal website, including coordination with OIT for biweekly platform updates
• Track progress in Asana (project management tool).

Service and System Maintenance and Testing        30%

• Conduct analysis to determine and plan for new programs, system integrations, or system upgrades.
• Perform routine system maintenance tasks involving scripts, logs, and administrative interfaces.
• Develop and execute of comprehensive test plans, with a focus on automated testing
• Provide ongoing maintenance of applications, systems, or websites.
• Create and maintain tools and scripts to streamline development and maintenance of applications

Consulting, Support & Documentation        10%

• Consult with stakeholders to gather and interpret application and system requirements and develop detailed system specifications.
• Provide excellent remote and in-person technical support, instruction, and training for CSE customers.
• Serve as an escalation point for resolving complex and non-routine production, application, or website issues.
• Create and maintain user-facing and IT-facing documentation.

Collaboration & Professional Development        10%

• Participate in related CSE and University professional groups and/or Communities of Practice to ensure the needs and interests of the College are represented.
• Contribute to, understand, and carry out the IT@UMN vision and strategy.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS plus at least two years of experience, or master's degree.
• Ability and motivation to collaborate effectively with a team.
• Strong commitment to delivering excellent customer service.
• Experience communicating with diverse groups of people and translating technical issues and trends to non-technical audiences.
• Experience developing and providing support for secure and accessible applications.
• Experience modeling, designing, and administering databases (MySQL preferred).
• Experience with PHP, HTML and CSS.
• Experience with revision control systems, especially GitHub.
• Experience with Linux and/or Mac operating systems, and command-line operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working as part of a Scrum Development Team.
• Experience leading development projects and project teams.
• Experience with PHP frameworks, Laravel preferred
• Experience developing web solutions in content management systems, Drupal preferred.
• Experience with shell scripting
• Experience with ddev
• Experience with cloud-based deployment processes