Lead Software Engineer
- Employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Feb 22, 2021
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Contributes to strategic and tactical planning to achieve
divisional goals by prioritizing initiatives and coordinating the
evaluation, deployment and management of current and future
technologies.
Provide consulting services within Carey regarding development
of unit-specific databases/software. Conduct needs assessments when
appropriate. Oversee, coordinate and assist staff with the
development and management of such
databases/software.
Within functional scope has direct responsibility for the
design, development, and application of technical solutions that
satisfy customer needs and are essential to the ongoing operations
of the school or IT function.
Provide input and recommendations to and/or formulates plans.
Takes direction from leadership to implement those plans for the
success of the unit.
Identify opportunities for and recommend additions to database
systems and services to fully support faculty, students and
administrative staff and to help the school achieve their mission
and goals (e.g. identify, recommend, and/or develop
front-end/end-user tools).
Work with project stakeholders across departmental teams to
develop detailed business requirements for multiple projects that
sometimes have conflicting timelines and priorities; from concept
to launch.
Work with the project team and IT technical areas to develop
technical requirements.
Maintain relationships with customer base to better understand
their needs and address organizational
goals.
Build and maintain project plans and report on project progress
to milestones
Evaluate all development work done on database server(s),
ensuring compliance with any and all Carey and JHU institutional
and user account policies.
Identify and recommend purchase of appropriate database
management system, front-end access software and supporting
hardware for school-wide database
servers.
Work with software vendors, where applicable, to
learn/understand the software capabilities, suggest and monitor
improvements and install new releases
Create and/or oversee complete technical documentation for all
databases to ensure that newly hired staff can follow any project
with little or no previous knowledge. Maintain project archives.
Configures and maintains documentation and deliverables, etc. in
central location.
Resolve problems and issues as they develop. Ensure the proper
communication of problem resolutions.
Research new software, products or systems, including
coordination of vendor demonstrations.
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Serve as technical leader on complex dashboarding, reporting,
and business intelligence projects and a high degree of initiative
and autonomy as expected with the ability to work independently
with minimal supervision.
Work in conjunction with functional representatives to develop
back-end data queries to satisfy ad-hoc requests for information
regarding the school.
Provide technical development of analytics and reporting
solutions.
Evaluate existing applications; recommend actions,
modifications/upgrade as needed.
Design, develop and support system
interfaces.
Clearly document requirements, development plans and outcomes
(training documentation for end users as well as support
documentation for internal Carey ITS
staff)
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Responsible for data integrations between internal and/or
externally hosted systems.
Oversee data access and storage; train end-users in front–end
data access methodologies and elementary programming logic. Develop
and conduct comprehensive end-user training in most commonly
used/supported front-end database query
language.
Create, implement and execute plans to ensure the highest level
of data integrity on all databases, and ensure the ability to fully
recover from any disaster.
Create and maintain policies and procedures that have been
developed relating to database server administration (creating and
maintaining user accounts, monitoring user activity, monitoring
system performance, performing system and database backups and
recoveries).
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Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Information
Technology or related field required.
Five (5) years related experience
required.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
JHU Equivalency Formula:18 graduate degree credits (semester hours) may substitute for one year of experience.Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.
Preferred qualifications:-
5+ years of professional experience with 3+ years’ experience
managing complex interdepartmental
projects.
Candidates preferably within higher education with some project
management experience.
Demonstrated experience with SQL programming and
development.
Experience with Student Information System
(SIS)
Experience with Tableau or PowerBI
Excellent understanding of business complexity and project
interdependencies.
Effective, organized, and concise written and verbal
communicator with clear and effective presentation
skills.
Attention to detail and proven execution capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize diverse tasks.
Proven ability to work under pressure, owning and meeting critical
deadlines.
Ability to thrive in, fast-moving and constantly evolving high
growth environment.
Extensive knowledge, and success with leading efforts in system
configuration, solution design, testing and
implementations.
Critical and strategic thinking, oral/written communication,
relationship building, influencing, and interpersonal
skills.
Ability to collaborate with peers, colleagues and
staff.
Exemplary customer service skills.
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Proficiency in database management systems and database
administration, including application development, database
structure and design, quality assurance, security, risk management
and disaster recovery.
Knowledge of and ability to implement industry standards and
appropriate methodology for programming/application
development.
Knowledge of distributed computing and ability to design and
implement client/server based
applications.
Proficiency to use database development, management and access
software, including Microsoft SQL Server,
Knowledge and experience with software designed specifically for
database modeling.
Knowledge of PC-based Windows software applications such as
Microsoft Office Suite, and the ability to evaluate, select and
learn new software and operating systems.
Ability to identify and resolve problems independently,
including hardware configuration problems, software configuration
problems, and problems with internally developed
applications.
Ability to synthesize and analyze end-user requests/needs and
design and code appropriate applications.
Ability to work collaboratively and build solid working
relationships with the IT team, faculty, staff, administration, and
outside representatives.
Strong organizational, administrative and problem-solving
skills.
Proven ability to assess priorities, with the ability to respond
quickly to changing needs and to balance competing
responsibilities.
Ability to work independently and exercise independent
judgment.
Excellent written and oral communication
skills.
Ability to lead software development projects with a focus on
continuous process improvement.
High level knowledge of all technologies within area of
responsibility
Track record of collaboration with peers, colleagues and lower
level staff
Proven ability to prioritize work and ensure projects and
workloads are completed on time while maintaining high
morale
Ability to prioritize conflicting
demands
Excellent written and oral communications
skills
Proficiency to manage and analyze complex data
constructs
Ability to serve as a technical leader on complex dashboarding,
reporting, and business intelligence
projects
Schedule: Monday-Friday –8:30am-5:00pm 37.5hrs/Wk
Location: 100 International Drive, Baltimore, MDDepartment name:60004457-Software and Reporting Services Group
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office atjhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.
The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.
During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.
The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.
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The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.
The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.
During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.
The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Note: Job Postings are updated daily and remain online until filled.
EEO is the Law
Learn more:
https://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf
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