Applications Developer

Kent State University; Kent (OH); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Paid time off

Employer-matched retirement

Tuition waivers for employee and their

immediate family

Job summary

Kent State University is seeking an Applications Developer to design, develop, and maintain software applications on the Kent Campus with optional remote work. You will work in a collaborative SDI environment focused on delivering high-quality UI-focused solutions.

The ideal candidate combines front-end development skills with a passion for user-friendly interfaces and strong communication with clients and teammates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and 2+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing, coding, testing, implementing, and maintaining moderately complex applications.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and collaborate with clients and team members.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients, business analysts, and team members to interpret complex requirements and translate them into quality technical solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software applications in a structured development lifecycle with IS security standards.
• Provide user support and documentation for multiple applications and ensure timely delivery and quality.

Skills

Front-end development

UI design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Job Title

Applications Developer

Physical Location

Kent Campus - Kent, OH, as well as remote work options

Salary

Offered salary is Pay Grade 07-IS and will be consistent with University Policy. Position has a targeted salary of $59,961 - $62,000 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. The Division of People, Culture, and Belonging 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 moderately 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 IS support specialties. Implement prescribed security policies. Reports to Designated Administrator.

Additional Basic Function – if applicable

The Systems Development and Innovation (SDI) group designs dynamic, user-friendly products and services for over 25,000 Kent State students and 10,000 faculty and staff, including FlashLine and KSUMobile. Of the four teams in SDI (Solutions Delivery, Web Presence, Architecture & Standards, Digital Accessibility & User Experience), this position resides in Solutions Delivery.

A successful candidate should thrive on an excellence-driven, collaborative, highly communicative team with supportive coworkers who enjoy solving technical and design problems together. The ideal candidate is a skilled front-end developer who is passionate about building UIs that solve complex problems and are delightful to use. Solutions Delivery 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. This motivation creates a less cutthroat and more aspirational culture than in the commercial sector.

Examples of Duties

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

Responsibilities include working with clients, business analysts, and team members to understand fairly 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 systems life cycle and responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting 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 moderately complex applications, programs, application functions, databases, or application / user interfaces.
Implement applications based on system life-cycle standards and IS Architectural and Security protocols.
Perform analysis and judgment outside established protocols.
Provide user support for multiple applications.
Develop application requirements based on business requirements from clients and technical requirements from IS support specialties.
Work effectively with some oversight.
Take responsibility for the relationship with a client for a specific application with limited scope (department, center, single large application).
Provide timely status updates to supervisor and client management highlighting potential issues/problems.
Work effectively with multiple client contacts; initiates interaction to clarify and improve relationship with client.
Work effectively with co-workers.
Translate broad project scope and goals into detailed work plan with tasks, accountabilities, dependencies, milestones and deadlines; monitors project plans to ensure progress.
Balance multiple priorities and respond to day-to-day problems while maintaining progress on regularly scheduled project work.
Take personal responsibility for quality and timeliness of results for projects and tasks.
Consistently proposes original solutions, proposals, and recommendations within context of a discrete project or objective.
Effectively assesses feasibility of solutions in terms of client need and available resources.
Understand work unit, IS and client goals and priorities.

Additional Examples of Duties – if applicable

IT’s COMMITMENT TO THE HIRED CANDIDATE:

• We will give clear direction and set clear expectations.
• We will give flexibility on work location: on premises if that’s how you work best, remote if/when needed.
• We will respect your ideas so that you actively engage in problem solving rather than silently fulfill orders.
• We will develop both your ability to research and problem-solve independently AND your awareness of when to loop in a colleague for collaboration. We value teachability and curiosity.
• We will support you as a whole person, understanding that work is only one part of your identity. We work to live, not live to work.
• We commit to transparency about your advancement options. We will teach you the organizational structure, explain the qualifications necessary for the rung above you, then encourage you if/when you reach higher.

Minimum Qualifications

A baccalaureate degree in computer science, technology, business administration, computer information systems or an appropriate field and two or more years of relevant professional experience. Or a combination of education, training, and experience equivalent to an Associate degree in IS/CS plus four years of experience including; developing application requirements; design, development and /or maintaining and providing support for multiple moderately complex applications, programs, application functions, databases, or application / user interfaces; implementing applications based on system life-cycle standards and IS Architectural and Security protocols; performing analysis and judgment outside established protocols; developing application requirements based on business requirements from clients and technical requirements from IS support specialties; and working effectively with some oversight.

License/Certification

Not applicable.

Knowledge Of

Several appropriate development language(s), operating system(s), and reporting tool(s) Relational database design. Remote processing and virtual systems concepts
Programming concepts; server capabilities; principles and techniques of studying business processes related to new or modified applications; principles of systems design; technical report writing; and application of algorithms and mathematical modeling and record selection
Computer system analysis, design, testing, debugging and maintenance techniques and practices

Skill In

Not applicable.

Ability To

Develop complex programs and detailed program specifications
Analyze complex data and processes, reason logically; identify problems; draw valid conclusions; and develop effective complex solutions
Prepare and interpret complex structured and/or computerized diagramming techniques

Preferred Qualifications – if applicable

Not applicable.

Assessments

Asterisk (*) indicates knowledge, skills, abilities which require assessments

Working Conditions / Physical Requirements

None.

Working Schedule

Monday - Friday 8 am - 5 pm or otherwise discussed with discussed with your supervisor.

Additional Information

Kent State University is committed to creating a community that is culturally and intellectually diverse and to attracting and retaining a diverse staff. We strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that respect differences, and are inclusive, welcoming, respectful and kind.

Disclaimer

The intent of this description is to illustrate the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and should not be interpreted to describe all the specific duties and responsibilities that may be required in any particular position. Directly related experience/education beyond the minimum stated may be substituted where appropriate at the discretion of the Appointing Authority. Kent State University reserves the right to revise or change job duties, job hours, and responsibilities.