Boston College Introduction

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,654 full-time undergraduates and 5,072 graduate and professional students. Ranked 37 among national universities, Boston College has 923 full-time and 1,336 FTE faculty, 2,822 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.9 billion.

Job Description

Come join a team of innovative developers whose mission is to support the success of EagleApps, our Student Information System. The Application Developer will be responsible for supporting and developing critical applications and related Eagle Apps integrations. This includes but is not limited to financial aid, student accounts, degree audit, transfer articulation, course offering, course scheduling, program enrollment, course registration, transcripts, grading, graduation, etc. The candidate must have experience with Javascript UI frameworks to work in the Eagle Apps UI environment. The candidate must also have experience working with Java services to allow him/her to support the Eagle Apps codebase and vendor applications integrated with the student system. These development environments are built on open source code, which needs to be upgraded or replaced from time to time to deal with licensing changes, security, or integration issues. Experience supporting our specific vendor applications is not required but highly desirable. Those vendor systems include the Sigma Prosam Financial Aid System and CollegeSource uAchieve Degree Audit System. Candidates with strong application development/integration experience that may not be in Higher Education are encouraged to apply.

Current projects/tasks that this position has been assigned include:
- Providing ongoing maintenance and support for Student Accounts, Financial Aid, and Degree Audit systems
- Updating and enhancing Eagle Apps integrations with other systems
- Updating and enhancing Eagle Apps modules as needed
- Work with vendors on upgrades and patches as required
- Support of the overall student information systems

Title and salary commensurate with relevant experience based on the following titles and hiring ranges (this is not a fully remote position; 2-3 days in person is required):

Senior Applications Developer: Minimum of five years of technical experience to include applications development and integration principles and concepts. Previous experience leading technical teams. Hiring range from 107k to 134k

Applications Developer: Minimum of three years of programming experience and at least two years of data analysis, design, and implementation experience to include working with user departments to define and assess business needs and programming requirements. Hiring range from 92k to 115k

Associate Applications Developer: Minimum of one year of professional IT experience or 1-3 years as a non-exempt employee working in an IT environment. Hiring range from 76k to 95k

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science or closely related Information Technology field.
- Business and application analysis; object-oriented analysis, design and development.
- Ability to apply analysis techniques and procedures to gather and translate business requirements into functional/technical specifications and designs.
- Distributed network application concepts and principles.
- Knowledge of security concepts and principles.
- Applications development to include web-based application development tools and integration principles and concepts.
- Working knowledge of network infrastructure components, prototyping paradigms, security issues and production control.
- Experience supporting and developing Java and JavaScript applications.
- Experience with version control systems such as Git.
- Ability to maintain databases and application system code.
- Strong SQL and relational database experience with the ability to model data and enhance database performance.
- Experience with implementing and customizing or extending vendor-provided solutions.
- Programming and scripting experience to work with schedulers and a variety of data transfer techniques.
- Ability to integrate a variety of vendor applications to deliver solutions specific to Boston College
- Ability to work effectively with DBAs, Systems, Security, Network Services, vendors and other technical resources to troubleshoot issues and remedy performance problems.
- Ability to log support issues and work directly with 3rd parties on corrective actions.
- Working knowledge of load and regression testing techniques.
- May be required to work additional hours to meet project/unit deadlines and timelines.

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