Application Developer, Lead - Managerial
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- Georgia State University
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
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- Technology, Analysts & Programming, Web, Mobile & Application Development
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Putting technology to work at Georgia State University. Are you passionate about technology, your client's success, and looking to make a difference? Ranked the #2 Most Innovative National University by US News and World Report, Georgia State is a leading force in the digital transformation of higher education. Georgia State's central technology services group, Instructional Innovation and Technology (IIT), seeks to inspire, support, and enable innovative solutions to advance learning, research, and economic enterprise. IIT is leading the pursuit to find solutions to the unique challenges associated with information technology and serve as leaders in a global network of knowledge creation and sharing by earning the role of valued partners and trusted advisors for evolving technology solutions, discovering, creating, and implementing new models of higher education for a community of diverse learners, creating and supporting innovative solutions that improve the lives of our students, our city and our state, attracting, developing and retaining talented and capable professionals and fostering an innovative culture of leaders where collaboration, ownership, creativity, and efficiency are key.Georgia State University’s Instructional Innovation and Technology Department – Applications Solutions / Student Applications Division is looking for a skilled Application Developer, Lead – Managerial to join our vibrant and growing team. This is a highly technical position with hands-on application development duties. This supervisory position will be expected to operate with minimal direction from management and at a maximum level of independence. The incumbent of this position will be responsible for application support, requirements and systems analysis, application programming, software testing, and project management for projects to which assigned. Possesses comprehensive knowledge, expertise, and works independently as an expert through each of the phases of the software development lifecycle. Responsible for project plans, budgets, time, cost estimates, design specifications, and/or other documentation associated with projects, tasks, or applications to which they are assigned. Consults and collaborates with personnel in other technical departments to coordinate activities. Possesses comprehensive knowledge and demonstrated expertise with regard to relevant software development tools. Prepares activity and status reports regarding the activities to which they are assigned.Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
Leadership:
- Responsible for instructing, directing, mentoring, directing, mentoring, and training staff.
- Assigns personnel to various projects and support activities and directs activities.
- Reviews and evaluates individual performance.
- Participates in staff performance evaluations.
- Responds to customer reports of problems, system performance anomalies, and/or general inquiries.
- Includes application code troubleshooting and design, programming, testing, and debugging of software patches/fixes.
- Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives through research and fact-finding.
- Includes analysis and documentation of business processes and functional requirements.
- Considers the business implications of the application of technology to the business environment.
- Translates functional requirements and prepares detailed program specifications from which programs will be written.
- Responsible for identifying appropriate resources needed.
- Developing project plan/schedule.
- Scheduling and facilitating project meetings.
- Coordinating activities of project team.
- Reporting project status to both management and customer
- Participates in meetings and communicates regularly with both management and customer regarding project and/or application support activity status.
- Responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
- May provide version control and configuration control for software supported by the team.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and three years of related experience; or a combination of education and related experience.
College/Business Unit
12/13/21, 11:59:00 PM
College/Business Unit: Instructional Innovation & Technology
Location: Atlanta Campus
Job Posting: 11/15/21, 11:06:33 AM
Organization
Founded in 1913 in Atlanta, Georgia State University is the second-largest and one of four research institutions in the University System of Georgia. The University serves one-fourth of the graduate students in the university system; it is within a one-hour commute of more than one-third of the state’s population. Approximately 80 percent of all Georgia State alumni live and work in Georgia.
Georgia State’s main campus is located on 34 acres in downtown Atlanta. University centers in Alpharetta, Brookhaven, Buckhead and Henry County offer students convenient suburban locations for graduate courses in business and education.
More than 50,000 students annually attend Georgia State University. While 90 percent of the students are from Georgia, students also come from all 50 states and 160 countries. More than 1,400 international students attend Georgia State and graduate students comprise 31 percent of the student population.
The University offers more than 52 degree programs in more than 250 fields of study – from public policy and African-American studies to biology and health sciences. Degrees are offered at the bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels through six units: the College of Arts and Sciences, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, College of Education, College of Health and Human Sciences, College of Law and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In addition to the numerous degree programs, Georgia State offers full- and part-time programs and day, evening and weekend classes.
Students have many choices in extracurricular activities including more than 22 fraternities and sororities; and some 250 chartered student groups, including 60 degree-related student groups, seven religious, 24 law-oriented and 22 multicultural/international groups; and 10 honor societies. There is also an active student government association which includes the student senate and the judicial board.
The Georgia State Panthers are members of the Colonial Athletic Association and compete in 16 NCAA Division I intercollegiate men’s and women’s sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track and volleyball. The university announced in April 2008 that is will begin Division I-AA football in 2010.
The university’s innovative Touch the Earth program brings outdoor recreation ranging from backpacking, rock climbing, sailing, kayaking, rafting and water-skiing to out-of-state snow-skiing and snorkeling trips. And WRAS, Georgia State’s popular 100,000-watt radio voice, is the most powerful student-run radio station in the United States.
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