Specialist I
Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) is an outstanding multi-campus community college with an excellent reputation for high quality instruction, programs and services. The College is the largest community college in New York State and educates over 26,000 credit students and 10,000 non-credit and workforce training students on its three campuses – Ammerman (Selden, NY), Eastern (Riverhead, NY), and Michael J. Grant (Brentwood, NY), as well as the Sayville Center and the Riverhead Culinary Arts and Hospitality Center. There are 493 full-time faculty and 1,458 adjunct faculty teaching 71 degree programs and 30 certificate programs. Suffolk County is the largest suburban county in the State of New York, with a population of over 1.5 million people. The attractive county includes rural and suburban communities. For more information visit the College web site at www.sunysuffolk.edu.
The Specialist I will report to the Computer Center’s Associate Director for Application Development and will primarily support the analysis, development, integration and operation of the College’s software application systems comprised of: SunGard’s Banner ERP; Luminis Faculty/Student Portal; College developed portal applications; and a variety of third party packaged software and interfaces. Specific responsibilities are as follows:
· Communicate and coordinate with consultants, College team members and representatives from consortiums and other institutions of higher education.
· Collaborate with functional departments to gather business requirements and develop system design and programming specifications.
Use industry standards and creativity to provide analysis of scope, feasibility and methodology for application development and problem resolution, including the documentation of findings and alternative approaches.
· Independently execute and document all relevant phases of the System Development Life Cycle including but not limited to: analysis; design; programming; testing; implementation; and post implementation support.
· Help facilitate the progression and completion of tasks assigned to other staff members.
· Provide quality control through the evaluation, insight and support of IT applications and services.
· Provide periodic status to College Administration with regard to assigned projects, tasks and other designated responsibilities.
· Develop programs utilizing institutionally accepted programming languages, techniques, standards and methodologies.
· Provide mentoring, training and support to other team members in relevant technologies.
· Assist in the research, acquisition and implementation of new products and services that will enhance the technical productivity of the department.
A Master’s degree with at least 20 undergraduate or graduate credits in computer science or a related major. Alternately, a Bachelor’s degree with comparable credit requirements and 2 years of full-time technical work experience. Work experience must pertain to the support of an enterprise-wide service that includes: system administration; development; end-user collaboration; and responsibility for independently analyzing issues and researching and implementing solutions.
Applicants must also be proficient in Java and SQL procedural programming and reporting techniques and also demonstrate a significant knowledge of Oracle or similar relational databases, J2EE, UNIX/LINUX, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML and have an additional 4 years of full-time professional experience, preferably in an academic computer center. Preference will be given to applicants with SunGard’s Banner ERP, Luminis Portal, Banner Enterprise Identity System (BEIS), Oracle’s Identity Manager, Groovy, Spring Framework and Single Sign-on methodologies.
The New York State Retirement and Social Security Law requires retirees of a public pension plan within the State or City of New York to disclose prior public employment and pension plan history for the purpose of establishing a retiree's eligibility for employment.
