Senior Programmer / Architect

Position Summary

Who we are: Mott Community College is student-centered and mission-driven to ensure that all our students thrive and reach their fullest potential. As an institution, we are action-oriented and intentional in dismantling every systemic barrier that prevents the excellence of students from underrepresented communities.

As Mott Community College deepens its commitment to equity, it is of the highest priority that we focus our faculty hiring process to seek individuals with the expertise to lead our institution in serving students from underrepresented communities. This is an opportunity for the college community to continue to act upon our values but more importantly for the empowering of our students self-efficacy, for cultivating a sense of belonging, and for the diversity of our entire student body, being reflected in a position of power in the classroom.

Purpose, Scope & Dimension of Job:

The role of the Senior Programmer / Architect is to design, develop, secure, administer and support college- wide computer application systems as needed within the Information Technology Services department and the College. Primary responsibilities of the position include technical direction and design, business application support, systems analysis, and design and programming and mentoring developers. The senior developer / architect performs application development, maintenance, administration of security, information reporting, customer analysis and other duties related to program analysis and development. The Senior Programmer / Architect needs to be able to meet with customers on their system needs and have the ability to translate and apply those needs to application development. This position will work with a variety of databases and maintain them to produce a reliable, accurate, and dependable information system for all functions of day-to-day operations. This position functions to support the Colleges enterprise resource planning structures through the overall design and development of information systems and integration with the core College ERP system (currently Ellucian Colleague).

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities but will need to act as a lead architect and developer, often mentoring other developers, critiquing their development style, suggesting ways of improving and maintaining overall code integrity of all custom coding.