"Senior Software Engineer"

Overview

The Senior Software Engineer designs, modifies, develops, writes, and implements software programming applications. This role involves supporting and/or installing software applications and operating systems, participating in the testing process through test review and analysis, as well as certifying software reliability and performance. The role requires collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to further research, improve healthcare and technology outcomes, and integrate with university systems and external vendors. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, and troubleshooting throughout the software development lifecycle, providing technical leadership, and contributing to both prototyping and the deployment of production-grade software. This is a one year fixed duration position.

Required Skills and Abilities

1. Proven experience in developing complex software systems using high-level programming languages such as Python, Java, and JavaScript.
2. Proficiency in managing cloud and on-premise servers, configuring and maintaining secure networks, and integrating with various databases.
3. Demonstrated ability to design and implement end-to-end solutions, including database design, backend API development, and frontend interfaces.
4. Strong leadership skills with the ability to supervise, mentor, and guide junior developers and interdisciplinary team members. Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming techniques.
5. Expertise in agile software development practices, including iterative planning, user story creation, and collaborative team workflows with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

1. Experience with Workday Studio, integration tools, and Salesforce; familiarity with modern web frameworks such as Angular, React, or NodeJS.
2. Background in privacy-enhancing technologies, secure coding practices, CI/CD, and DevOps/Agile methodologies.
3. Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field with progressively more complex experience in software development, including project management and code reviews.
4. Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and experience with containerization technologies like Docker or Kubernetes.
5. Experience developing APIs and service integrations, knowledge of data modeling, data integration platforms, and using tools for data visualization and business intelligence like Microsoft Power BI.

Principal Responsibilities

1. Provides an overall leadership role. Serves as a technical advisor to programmers and provide technical guidance to leadership to assist with the formulating of long range development plans.
2. Leads efforts to evaluate University business and administrative processes and needs; identifies, analyzes and defines systems requirements for large administrative areas. Designs and implements large and highly complex administrative systems.
3. Leads the planning, development and implementation of business solutions. Ensures stakeholder and intended user's needs, scheduled timeline, and budgetary targets are met or exceeded.
4. Defines and executes quality assurance and unit testing procedures to ensure high quality solutions. Monitors effectiveness and efficiency of applications and systems and conduct initiatives to improve system availability, cost, performance and manageability across the lifecycle. Performs highly complex and unusual problem solving.
5. Leads, plans, and manages major projects; including architectural design, technology selection, and methodologies to apply. Advises and influences both internal and external consulting teams.
6. Develops and oversees production support functions and integrates system requirements among several departments. Formulates systems design schedule and writes program modules.
7. Leads and ensures ongoing maintenance and support for applications and systems. Leads technical evaluations. Interface with vendors to resolve major software issues. Responsible for final decisions on purchases of hardware and software products.
8. Trains, mentors, and develops technical staff. Leads and oversees support for training of end users.
9. Recommends and creates new policy. Creates and utilizes best practices.
10. Takes a leadership role in keeping current with existing and emerging technologies and methodologies. Provides leadership in the ongoing establishment and use of programming standards and methodologies, with intent to improve overall efficiency of group and client satisfaction.
11. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree in a related field and six years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.