Job Description

Salary:

Offered salary is Pay Grade 08-IS and will be consistent with University Policy. Position has a targeted salary of $66,705 - $70,000 plus exceptional comprehensive benefits including medical coverage, paid time off, employer-matched retirement savings and full tuition waivers for employee and employee’s immediate family. Human Resources will conduct a compensation review of the applicant’s education and job experience to determine final pay package.

Basic Function:

Responsible for the basic design, development and ongoing modification of software applications, and implementation of work products in a complex production environment. Design, develop and maintain software applications and provide application-specific user support. Develop application requirements based on business requirements from clients and technical requirements from IT support specialties. Implement prescribed security policies. Reports to Designated Administrator.

Additional Basic Function – if applicable:

The Digital Enterprise Solutions (DES) team designs dynamic, user-friendly products and services for over 25,000 Kent State students and 9,000 faculty and staff, in addition to supporting enterprise systems like Banner ERP and Canvas LMS. Of the various teams in DES, this vacancy resides in Web Presence.
A successful candidate should thrive on an excellence-driven, collaborative, highly communicative team with supportive coworkers who enjoy solving technical and design problems together. Web Presence projects focus on deliverables that are as high in quality and innovation as leading companies in the commercial arena but are rooted in the desire to improve and advance the educational efforts of the entire Kent State body.

Examples of Duties:

Duties/essential functions may include, but not be limited to, the following:


Responsibilities include working closely with clients, business analysts, and team members to understand more complex business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. These solutions must be aligned with business and IT strategies and comply with the organization’s architectural and security standards.

Involved in the full systems life cycle and responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting complex applications software.

May supervise students and/or provide functional guidance of support staff or other employees who work on a project or assignment on a temporary or intermittent basis.

JOB COMPETENCIES:

Design, develop and/or maintain multiple complex applications, user interfaces, application functions, application interfaces, databases or database applications.

Implement applications based on system life-cycle standards and IT Architectural and Security protocols.

Perform analysis and judgment regarding interdependencies of processes/applications/technologies.

Provide user support for multiple complex applications.

Develop application requirements based on business requirements from clients and technical requirements from IS support specialties.

Work effectively with limited oversight.

Provide information and recommendation to supervisor for decision-making.

Establish estimates and timelines for specific applications/projects and take direct accountability for results.

Responsible for relationships with team members and clients for applications/projects with a moderate to large scope (division, college).

Anticipate clients' future needs; participate in the definition of client's strategic plan.

Effectively deliver informational and decision seeking presentation to technical and functional groups.

Assist in communicating team goals and keeping team focused.

Effectively prioritizes and handles multiple concurrent activities; assist teams in planning and estimating techniques for various activities.

Establish focused, measurable goals for self and others.

Identify solutions that effectively combine needs and or resources for multiple clients and applications