Job description
Title:
Applications Developer
Department:
Business Information Systems
Reports To:
Director, Business Information Systems
Position Type:
Staff
Position Summary:
NJIT is in the middle of an ambitious Digital Transformation that will bring digital to the core of all we do. The Application Developer will be responsible for the development of technology solutions as part of the Business Information Systems team, in coordination with the Director of Business Information Systems, and collaborating with technical leads within the Information Services & Technology division at NJIT. This individual will be able to work on fairly complex application design and development assignments with minimal supervision. A self-starter, with a proven ability to learn new technology, this individual will work as part of a cross functional team, including technical and business representatives. The individual will need to operate with tight deadlines and be capable of handling multiple assignments concurrently, negotiating priorities with input and assistance of their manager. The individual will provide functional and technical guidance to less experienced developers, including student interns, and train campus partners on new technology, as needed. The successful candidate will keep abreast of emerging technology trends, and take an active interest in professional development to ensure their skills stay current. All duties will need to be performed in accordance with university policies, procedures and core values.
Essential Functions:
The major duties and responsibilities of the position are:
Prerequisite Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Bargaining Unit:
PSA
Range/Band:
28
FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time
Applications Developer
Department:
Business Information Systems
Reports To:
Director, Business Information Systems
Position Type:
Staff
Position Summary:
NJIT is in the middle of an ambitious Digital Transformation that will bring digital to the core of all we do. The Application Developer will be responsible for the development of technology solutions as part of the Business Information Systems team, in coordination with the Director of Business Information Systems, and collaborating with technical leads within the Information Services & Technology division at NJIT. This individual will be able to work on fairly complex application design and development assignments with minimal supervision. A self-starter, with a proven ability to learn new technology, this individual will work as part of a cross functional team, including technical and business representatives. The individual will need to operate with tight deadlines and be capable of handling multiple assignments concurrently, negotiating priorities with input and assistance of their manager. The individual will provide functional and technical guidance to less experienced developers, including student interns, and train campus partners on new technology, as needed. The successful candidate will keep abreast of emerging technology trends, and take an active interest in professional development to ensure their skills stay current. All duties will need to be performed in accordance with university policies, procedures and core values.
Essential Functions:
The major duties and responsibilities of the position are:
- Install, configure, develop, maintain and support software applications that include third party vendor solutions, cloud hosted application, and in-house developed applications.
- Prepare detailed software specifications working with business and academic users; design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and diagnose problems, evaluate results and resolve issues; maintain and document software applications, job control procedures, process workflows, user interfaces and new features of the university's enterprise application systems.
- Respond to incidents, service outages and service requests in a timely manner and collaborate with team members within the Information Services & Technology division, campus partners and vendors.
- Provide technical support of enterprise applications.
- Develop documentation to track development and enhancements.
- Support enterprise applications in accordance with established NJIT standards, policies and procedures.
- Maintain application security standards and implement application security controls for enterprise applications.
- Interact with vendors during evaluation, implementation and operation/maintenance of vendor solutions.
- Participate in prototyping and testing of new enterprise applications and solutions.
- Participate in large scale systems implementations as an integral part of the team.
- Continually engage in professional development
- Provide back-up to other application developers.
- Perform other duties as assigned and as needed, including readiness to support after hours and weekends.
Prerequisite Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience implementing medium and large scale projects, and complex product integrations.
- 3+ years of experience developing with relational databases.
- 3+ years of experience with application development using APIs, web services (REST/SOAP API), and technologies such Java, HTML, JavaScript, Angular JS, Bootstrap, XML and JSON PL/SQL.
- Experience working with ERP systems, preferably Ellucian Banner, Workday or Oracle Cloud.
- Experience with business process and integration automation, particularly leveraging the ServiceNow and Workato platforms.
- Demonstrated experience translating business requirements into technical requirements and developing solutions to fit the business needs.
- Demonstrated experience with project and work management platforms such as Smartsheet.
- Demonstrated understanding of overall technology development leveraging cloud.
- Demonstrated experience implementing version control, change control.
- Experience developing with business intelligence tools like Cognos, Tableau, MicroStrategy.
- At the university's discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A Master's degree in computer science, information systems or a related field.
- Experience working with Ellucian Banner Finance.
- Experience working with integration (iPaaS) platforms, such as Workato, Boomi, Informatica and RPAs
- Experience with Groovy/Grails, GSP.
- Experience working with digital workflow platforms such as ServiceNow.
- Experience with ITIL practices for IT service management.
Bargaining Unit:
PSA
Range/Band:
28
FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time
- As an EEO employer NJIT is committed to building a diverse and inclusive teaching, research, and working environment and strongly encourages applications from individuals with disabilities, minorities, veterans, and women.
- Diversity is a core value of NJIT and we are committed to make diversity, equity and inclusion, part of everything we do. We celebrate the diversity of our university community and
recognize the cultural and personal differences. We strive to cultivate an inclusive campus culture that promotes excellence among
our faculty, staff and students. Building a robust and diverse community is critical to NJIT’s continuing status as a premier institution
of higher education and a leading polytechnic university.
- Employment at NJIT is subject to the provisions of New Jersey First Act which mandates new employees, who are not NJ residents, to establish primary residence in New Jersey within one year of their appointment to certain positions. The law does not apply to any individual employed at NJIT on a temporary or per semester basis as a visiting or adjunct professor, teacher, lecturer, researcher or administrator. For more information on the act
- If special accommodations are needed in applying for a position, please visit the Department of Human Resources located in Fenster Hall, Room 500, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102 or call (973) 596-3140. If you have questions, please email the Human Resources Department at hr@njit.edu.
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