Req #: 243011

Department: UW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Appointing Department Web Address: https://itconnect.uw.edu/uwit

Posting Date: 01/30/2025

Closing Info: Open Until Filled

Salary: $7,198 - $11,697 per month

Shift: First Shift

Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230119_a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. By being deeply invested in our work, showing compassion in our interactions, and embodying the spirit of a team player, each member contributes to a thriving community. UW is Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff; your experiences, perspectives, and unique identities will be honored at the University of Washington. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UW Information Technology (UW-IT) is the central information technology organization for the University of Washington, responsible for strategic planning, oversight, and direction of the UW’s IT infrastructure, resources, and services. UW-IT provides critical technology support to all three campuses, UW medical centers, and research operations around the world. Data & Applications (D&A) is the division in UW-IT that runs the university’s academic and business systems, productivity platforms, enterprise integrations, learning analytics and data for decision-making and is also responsible for the accessibility of UW’s digital resources.

Academic Systems, a unit within UW-IT, develops and maintains Student Information Systems (SIS) software solutions that directly support the entire student lifecycle - admissions, academic planning, registration, financial aid, and student accounts - as well as academic support systems such as curriculum management tools. SIS actively partners with owners and users of these systems to evolve and modernize them (e.g. tri-campus business stakeholders, administrators, student advisers, and students themselves). Academic Systems also leads Teaching & Learning Systems that evaluate, develop, integrate, and support technologies that enable others to teach, learn, and innovate. These solutions and applications are used by students, faculty, staff, researchers, clinicians, and external partners.

The SIS Program is currently seeking a software developer with experience to build and support cloud web applications. This developer will be responsible for implementing, modifying features and performing maintenance/support for existing web sites and web applications. This Academic Systems has many complex, challenging, multi-campus projects encompassing the entire student body at the University of Washington. The incumbent is comfortable in an agile dev-ops environment and tools. They will work in a matrixed project structure, partnering as a member of a cross-functional team focused on delivering feature improvements in the product. This position participates in all aspects of the software development lifecycle. They work closely with other senior developers, subject matter experts, user experience designers and business analysts. This includes understanding requirements and specifications, developing design, implementing software solution/service, validation, documentation and ongoing service management. Successful candidate in this role is an experienced software developer with a track record of feature/component ownership involving designing, coding, testing and deploying services.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related field or experience_.

• Three (3) years’ experience performing core development tasks involving design, implementation and support of enterprise-wide applications and services

• Experience in developing systems in Java, C#, .NET or Python etc.

• Knowledge and experience in developing REST APIs and web services.

• Proficient in Dev-ops and SDLC.

• Experience using enterprise-wide databases (like MySQL, Nosql etc.).

• Knowledge and skills in data collection and analysis using tools like SQM/Splunk/Tableau etc.

• Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and skills is essential.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision

• Demonstrated ability to be successful and thrive in a highly collaborative environment

• Excellent written/oral communication skills, technical documentation skills, user liaison skills and personal interaction abilities DESIRED:

• Experience in building WebUI with javascript frameworks like React, Redux, Vue, Angular etc

• Experience with code telemetry, data systems and analytics

• Experience with using code automation tools and AI agents.

• Experience working at a large research or academic institution CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Hybrid, open office environment Application Process: The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.