Senior Cloud Applications Developer

The University of Akron•Akron, OH

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Support cloud-based applications and integrations, primarily the institutions’ Workday ERP system. Collaborate with other Information Technology Services teams and functional units to provide new applications, integrations, and analytics. Engage with Business Analysts and other Application Developers to understand requirements and collaborate on effective solutions. Perform complex programming assignments requiring an advanced aptitude of established programming standards, methods, and best practices. Write clean and reusable code. Participate in the full lifecycle of design, development, testing and deployment of applications. Work closely with stakeholders to design and implement new or enhanced systems, policies and procedures. Responsible for developing, installing and maintaining specified or assigned applications, improving system performance, troubleshooting issues and documentation procedures. Work with departments, programs or units to evaluate needs, system capacity and resources to design and deploy appropriate applications.

Requirements

Requires a relevant Bachelor's Degree.
Requires a minimum of 4 years’ experience in developing, deploying and maintaining cloud-based, enterprise-level applications and systems.
Requires familiarity with cloud-based computing concepts, cloud-based development tools and frameworks, programming languages and ability to use cloud services and APIs.
Understanding of cloud security, compliance and best practices.
Must possess highly developed computer skills including software, database, and web browser capabilities.
Strong problem solving, communication and technical skills required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Workday (Workday EIB, Core Connector, Workday Studio BIRT), and analytics (Workday Reporting and Prism Analytics).
Experience working within a higher education environment.

Responsibilities

Develop software for various environments with a cloud first approach.
Lead the design and development of software systems.
Develop and deploy background processes and APIs as cloud services and enable end to end testing.
Lead an agile, cross-functional team to rapidly deliver software solutions.
Maintain and update the existing computer services and program documentation to ensure compliance with department standards.
Collaborate with internal and external users and software specialists to identify problems, resolve problems and perform root cause analysis.
Evaluate office and computer processes and procedures to define and solve routine and complex problems.
Support and maintain existing applications including feature additions and bug fixes.
Research, evaluate and implement cloud native tools and architectures to improve scale and performance.
Take part in design research and help identify opportunities.
Identify and implement technical improvements and solutions.
Conduct code review of all new development objects.
Mentor/Train and share knowledge with development teams.