Summary

The Enterprise Applications group at Teachers College is responsible for a robust suite of applications essential to the administration of the College. We are seeking a hands-on developer to lead a small team within the EA group focusing on multi-tier web and mobile applications. A successful candidate will effectively lead the team and collaborate with other teams while providing support, analysis, and development services to deliver cross-platform solutions. Must demonstrate initiative, drive, creativity, persistence and thoroughness.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and develop web and mobile applications on small to medium size projects,  supporting projects through the full development lifecycle from requirements through launch.
• Oversee development work over the full technology stack, including system infrastructure, data modeling, API building, backend coding, and the presentation layer.
• Evaluate third-party products and vendors as an alternative to in-house development.
• Oversee the operation and administration for the myTC iOS and Android mobile apps, the myTC portal, TC's SSO system, and TC APIs in multiple dev/test/prod environments.
• Analyze and resolve issues when user reports or monitoring indicate system or application problems. Anticipate issues and make preparations to mitigate issues before they arise.
• Work with other members of the CIS team to ensure that enterprise systems operate reliably, consistently, and effectively.
• Maintain both vendor and in-house developed applications. Communicate any problems to vendors, and work with them and users to solve problems.
• Provide analysis, design, development and support for integrations between applications.
• Evaluate, prioritize, and implement new feature requests.
• Design and maintain a web and mobile analytics infrastructure that records application performance and user engagement. Analyze and interpret results, and make findings available through dashboards or automated reports.
• Lead the team in ensuring proper resource management, delivery planning, and adherence to development standards for system design, information security and documentation.
• Work with other internal information technology teams and their project managers to prioritize deliverables and manage a shared project calendar.
• Establish annual goals for development and provide manageable and achievable targets.
• Work to further the College's capabilities by proposing new practices, procedures, and technologies.

Required Skills

• Ability to define project goals and work independently to complete projects while adhering to the established schedule.
• Thorough expertise in enterprise-class application development concepts, methodologies and processes.
• In-depth and hands-on knowledge of back-end programming languages and frameworks (Java, Spring, Hibernate, Groovy/Grails, Python).
• Very good knowledge of front-end programming languages (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, JSON)
• Experience with native iOS and Android mobile application programming languages (Objective-C, Swift, Java) and app store deployments.
• Familiarity with Linux operating system and environment.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL).
• Experience with web servers and java containers (Apache, Tomcat, IIS, nginx).
• Experience building on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), especially EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, and Route 53.  
• Experience with source code management, build, and deployment tools (GIT, Jenkins, Ansible).
• Experience using project management, documentation, and issue/release tracking tools (JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow).
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationship with other staff members within CIS and broadly within the College's administration.

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience in a higher ed environment.
• Experience with a leading content management platform and associated web publishing workflows.
• Solid understanding of critical application security concerns such as encryption, authentication and single sign-on implementations.
• Working knowledge of service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services and associated middleware.
• CI/CD tools and test driven development
• AWS and native/hybrid cloud best practices
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, team building, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate complex issues, plans and concepts to diverse populations, including executive management.

Required Experience

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of experience leading a technical team, preferably developing internet-facing applications in higher education.
• 7 years hands-on experience developing and delivering web-based and/or mobile-based solutions.
• Ability to work with changing priorities and with multiple projects.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work weekend and off-hour work on occasion.