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Posted: 04-Feb-26
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Internal Number: 101427-en_US
Current UC employees must apply internally via SuccessFactors
Next Lives at the University of Cincinnati
Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation?s best urban public research universities. Home to more than 53,600 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, and over 360,000 living alumni, UC, a Carnegie 1 institution, combines research prowess with a physical setting The New York Times has called ?the most ambitious campus design program in the country." UC's momentum has never been stronger as the anchor of the Cincinnati Innovation District, the oldest cooperative education (co-op) program in the country with students earning $94 million annually through paid experiences, an academic health system, and as a member of the Big 12 Conference. The university contributes $10.6 billion in economic impact to the city and $22.7 billion to the state of Ohio. At UC, next is all of us. Learn more at uc.edu.
UC is a mission-driven organization where we are committed to student success and positively transforming the community through scholarship and service. We thrive on innovation, making an impact, and fostering an environment where staff and faculty are key contributors to UC?s success.
Job Overview
The UC Digital Technology Solutions UI/UX team is driven by our passion for creating innovative software solutions that make a real difference in the faculty, students, and the community. We are now looking for a talented and motivated Developer 1 to join our team. Our team is collaborative and supportive, and we are excited to welcome a new member who shares our passion and can quickly get up to speed working on our projects.
As a Developer 1 at DTS, you will play a crucial role in our mission by designing, developing, and testing software applications. Your work will be instrumental in creating high-quality software that directly meets our users' needs. You will collaborate closely with other developers, product managers, and designers to achieve this.
Essential Functions
- Maintain integration with university systems using enterprise Java technologies.
- Develop back-end solutions to help meet the university?s business core systems? immediate and long-term goals and objectives.
- Work with Front-End Developer to extend university?s selected content management system components and functionality.
- Integrate solutions with other university and external third-party applications.
- Work on tasks of moderate complexity in support of projects. Work independently and as a team member in support of team, division, and university-scoped projects.
- Perform quality assurance and troubleshoot issues by reading logs, running tests, and communicating with IT@UC system administrators.
- Participate in project planning process. May help prepare estimates and operational requirements.
- Assist with technical design specifications.
- Maintain appropriate documentation and code commenting.
- Assist in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems.
- Perform script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations.
- Assist with setup and maintenance of test environments for both manual and automated testing.
- Assist with building and validating automated and manual deployments and perform regular testing.
- May participate in the development of contingency plans including reliable backup and restore procedures.
- Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Four (4) years of relevant work experience and/or other specialized education can be used in lieu of education requirement.
Required Experience
- Experience with Java EE components and services, JSP, OSGi, Apache Felix, JCR, Quartz, and theXMLHttpRequest/XMLHttpResponse cycle.
- Experience with JavaScript, JCR-SQL Querying, HTML, CSS/LESS.
- Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
Additional Qualifications Considered
- Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) or similar enterprise Sling-based CMS.
- Experience with Sling Models, Granite UI, Coral UI.
- Bash or similar shell-scripting, Ruby.
- Git version control, Bamboo, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
- Experience with Atlassian Jira and reporting time.
- Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CICD)
- Experience with testing methodologies, such as unit testing and integration testing.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Understanding of AEM's templating architecture to extend and override foundation and core components and to build new front-end components and templates.
- Leverage AEM clientlibs structure to optimize delivery of compiled styles, scripts and 3rd party frameworks and libraries.
- Write & maintain custom servlets, services, and other server-side components to handle dynamic content generation and processing.
- Develop within AEM dialog (Coral and Granite UI), parsys, and inheritance systems to deliver optimal results.
- Utilize Apache Sling, Java Use API to build out back-end framework for successful component development.
- Utilize OSGi, Maven, and CRXDE to manage and deploy packages and bundles.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
- Office environment/no specific unusual physical or environmental demands.
Compensation and Benefits
UC offers an exceptional benefits package designed to support your well-being, financial security, and work-life balance. (UC Benefits Link) Highlights include:
Salary/Hourly Pay Rate Information: 55,000-60,000
Comprehensive Tuition Remission
UC provides tuition remission for you and your eligible dependents, covering tuition costs for nearly all undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the university.
Robust Retirement Plans
As a UC employee, you won?t contribute to Social Security (except Medicare). Instead, you?ll choose between state pension plans (OPERS, STRS) or an Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP), with UC contributing 14?18% of your salary based on position.
Real Work-Life Balance
UC prioritizes work-life balance with a generous time-off policy, including:
Vacation and sick time
11 paid holidays and additional end-of-year paid time off (Winter Season Days)
6 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents
Additional Benefits Include:
- Competitive salary based on experience
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Flexible spending accounts & wellness programs
- Professional development & mentorship opportunities
To learn more about why UC is a great place to work, please visit our careers page at https://www.uc.edu/careers.html
UC is an E-Verify employer. If hired into this position, you will be required to provide satisfactory proof of employment eligibility by providing acceptable, original forms of identification for employment verification via the Federal I-9 employment verification process. A list of acceptable documents can be seen here: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents
Important: To apply you must create a profile and submit a complete job application through the UC applicant portal. We are unable to consider ?easy apply? applications submitted via other websites. For questions about the UC recruiting process or to request accommodations with the application, please contact Human Resources at jobs@uc.edu.
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