[Announcements] Indiana University Hiring Principal Systems Programmer for OAE

[May, Megan Marie]

Colleagues,
    Indiana University is currently looking to fill a Principal Systems Programmer position to work on the OAE project:

Description and Responsibilities:
Leads and collaborates in the delivery of Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) platform, a re-imagined technology-supported teaching learning and research system. Participates in the development and leads initiatives to analyze functional processes, determine system specifications, design solutions, write programs, and implement critical system applications while maintaining standards on a cross institutional managed project team. Analyzes highly complex technical issues; identifies refines and documents requirements to develop and implement code for the Sakai OAE project according to standards and best practices in a wide variety of technical architectures; and oversees code reviews to ensure proper functionality. Responsible for all areas of project plan, ensures implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance support for existing systems; collaborates with team, serves as a resource for problem analysis and resolution, and attends meetings; works independently as a member of the Sakai OAE Team and maintains excellent relationships with all members of the team through careful consideration and thorough communication on analysis and programming assignments; serves as senior point of contact for course of action relating to systems design and functionality as well as research and evaluation of emerging technologies that will enhance the product; and provides expertise in systems development in one of two areas: 1) User Interface - A UI developer is responsible for writing the code that presents the user interface to the Sakai user or 2) Server-side - The Server side developer is responsible for writing complex application code that provides services to the clients.

Qualifications
REQUIRED: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and five years demonstrated leadership in software engineering and/or development initiatives and projects.
Ability to operate effectively in a complex and dynamic environment; excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills; track record in successfully leading high-level process redesign on large-scale projects.
Preferred: Experience working on or leading an agile development team. Experience within higher education.

The technical skills and experience for UI developer are: expert-level cross browser HTML & CSS, AJAX, cross-browser JavaScript & jQuery; good visual design sense and capable of creating highly usable UI; deep knowledge of major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox & Safari) as client platform with a view into future direction; experience programming with PHP and MySQL; ability to quickly produce high quality work, in both deadline and non-deadline situation; and firm understanding of web standards.

The technical skills and experience for server side developers are: professional J2EE development experience; sound understanding of Java in a server environment; experience with enterprise-scale application development; collaborative team attitude prepared to work to achieve a shared goal; ability to work, self-motivated but task driven in a globally distributed team of developers; exposure to developing applications for collaboration in Higher Ed; solid track record in delivering Java server web applications in a clustered environment; and experience with Maven 2, OSGi, Apache Felix, Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling highly.

Interested applicants can find apply  at https://jobs.iu.edu/  job number #4431.

Please distribute this to others who may be interested.

Thanks,
Megan

Megan May
Interim Manager, Oncourse
UITS Enterprise Academic Software Division
Indiana University
Office:  317-274-4528

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