About MCC
Metropolitan Community College is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1915 as the Kansas City Polytechnic Institute. The Junior College of Kansas City, as it was known starting in 1919, was one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs.
Metropolitan Community College comprises five campuses on the Missouri side of the Greater Kansas City area 47 major buildings and about 550 acres in all: MCC-Blue River, located in Independence, Missouri; MCC-Longview located in Lee's Summit, Missouri, MCC-Maple Woods located in the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri; MCC-Online and MCC-Penn Valley, located in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.
MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, several programs have specific accreditations as well.
***MCC does not provide employer-paid sponsorships.
Job Summary
The individual in this position oversees, designs, develops, implements, tests, maintains, enhances and administers the College’s third-party and internal systems, and provides advanced technical expertise to system users.
Essential Functions
- Prioritize and assign application development tasks and projects to team members
- Research, analyze, code and troubleshoot new and existing information systems using objectoriented programing and single responsibility principles. Utilize full software development life cycle (SDLC) and version control to keep track and document changes. Develop and consume web services, APIs or micro-services to be utilized by other information systems utilized by the district
- Lead district-wide meetings and communications with applicable groups to gather requirements for new systems or enhance existing information systems (i.e. Initial phases of SDLC). Communicate with district employees about system creation, updates, errors and maintenance
- Train and mentor application development as well as marketing team members. Provide leadership and guidance on tasks and advanced projects taken on by the application development team. Create documentation on team processes and information systems
- Contact outside vendors, service reps to escalate or troubleshoot issue tickets, evaluate and recommend new features or components or maintain 3rd party systems
- Lead, plan and implement work sessions to facilitate pair programming and team collaboration on projects and/or new and complex tasks
- Research, plan and design database relational schemas; assign appropriate data types to fields; create tables and queries; stored procedures and packages to support or complement an existing or new information system
- Configure and maintain website and back-end databases using website management tools
- Remain current on new IT development methodologies and frameworks. Develop rationale and implementation plan for adoption of new technologies
- Manage, plan and schedule projects and timelines using agile methodologies like scrum
- Oversee agile and scrum methodology implementation including the requirements gathering and retrospective meetings. Utilize online tools like Azure DevOps to facilitate planning and execution on scrum methodology
- Oversee and participate in the testing of information systems including the writing of test cases and migration plans of systems from development to production
- Act as liaison between Marketing and Application Development departments to review, discuss and prioritize projects and tasks for the public websites requested by the marketing department
- Implement ADA and 508 compliant features on internal and public information technology system
- Create, design and maintain user friendly, aesthetically pleasing information system user interfaces using image editing, mockup and prototyping software from concept image to final web markup
- Performs other duties of a similar nature or level
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Five (5) to ten (10) years of relevant experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of supervisory principles
- Knowledge of application development.
- Knowledge of project planning implementations.
- Skilled in managing and completing programmer analyst work without requiring significant oversight or review.
- Skilled in monitoring and evaluating the work of subordinate staff.
- Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information.
Physical Requirements
Positions in this class typically require reaching, standing, walking, keyboarding, grasping, talking, hearing, mental acuity, seeing, speaking, and repetitive motions. Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.
Supplemental Information
EEO Statement: Metropolitan Community College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any person based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, birth, ancestry, national origin, or disability. EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled
Accommodations: MCC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, MCC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations in all aspects of employment, including the application process. To request an accommodation and/or a copy of the Americans with Disabilities Act applicant procedures, please contact the Office of Human Resources.
Organization
Long before Kansas City looked the way it does today, a group of people believed the region needed a place where anyone could get an education that led somewhere. That belief became Kansas City Polytechnic Institute in 1915, and a few years later, the Junior College of Kansas City, one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Over a century later, that same idea still drives the institution known today as Metropolitan Community College.
MCC is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, and that history isn't just a footnote. It's the foundation for a mission that hasn't changed: open doors, build skills, and help people move forward, whether that means a first degree, a career change, or a new trade learned close to home. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs across five campuses on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area: Blue River, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, and MCC-Online, spanning 47 buildings and roughly 550 acres.
But campuses and buildings only tell part of the story. What makes MCC matter is the people inside them, faculty who show up for students navigating school alongside jobs and families, staff who help someone find their footing, and colleagues who understand that this work changes the trajectory of a life. MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and several of its programs carry additional specialized accreditation, a reflection of a place that takes its responsibility to students seriously without losing sight of why the work exists in the first place.
For more than a hundred years, MCC has been part of how Kansas City grows and moves forward. The next chapter is being written now, by the people who choose to build their careers here. There's a place in that story for you.
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