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The Application Developer is part of the IT Development & Operations team within the Information Technology Department at Vanderbilt University. The Application Developer is an individual contributor responsible for the implementation of integrations, API's, and software applications using departmental standards and industry best practices. Utilizing both cloud and traditional development/hosting environments, application developers design, code, test, debug, and document software.

The IT Development & Operations Application Development and Integrations (ADI) team creates, configures, manages, and supports software applications and integrations. The software and integrations maintained by the ADI team facilitates critical business operations across the University including Academic Affairs, Division of Administration, Finance, and Vanderbilt University Information Technology.

Duties and Responsibilities

Development:

• Demonstrates proficiency of programming and other development tasks independently and without support from others for moderate to difficult applications.
• Possesses the ability to debug complex routines.

Standards and Procedures:

• Demonstrates knowledge of applications, development standards, and procedures of moderate difficulty.
• Is attentive to industry standards and procedures.
• May recommend improvements to existing standards and procedures within the work area.

System Analysis:

• Demonstrates the ability to conduct systems analysis tasks in a team environment or independently to build or enhance a simple system.
• Possesses the ability to decompose complex issues into meaningful and manageable parts.

System Design:

• Has knowledge of or light exposure to basic systems design tasks such as designing system architecture and flow, preparing functional design and file specifications, designing new documents, screens and reports, preparing program requirements and specifications, and preparing implementation and testing plans.
• Has worked with transaction, object oriented, graphical user interface and other concepts and architectures.
• In terms of structured systems design, if applicable, has had classroom training or independent study in principles of structured design.
• Understands concepts such as cohesion, coupling, data flow, graphics, etc.

Supervisory Relationships :

This position does not have supervisory responsibility, this position reports administratively and functionally to ADI IT Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education is necessary
• At least two years of related experience is necessary
• At least two years of programming experience with Java (or other object-oriented language) is necessary.
• Proficiency with Object-Oriented design is necessary.
• At least one year of experience with SQL is necessary.
• At least one year of experience with the Spring Framework is preferred
• At least one year of experience with Cloud technologies is preferred.
• Experience with multiple of the following preferred:
  • J2EE / JSP Web Apps
  • Spring Core/WS/Security/Boot/Batch
  • JSON/YAML/XML
  • SOAP/REST
  • JavaScript/React
  • Eclipse/VS Code/IntelliJ
  • Maven/Gradle
  • Jira/Bamboo/Artifactory
  • Docker
  • Git/SVN
  • MyBatis/Liquibase
  • NOSQL Database
  • AWS Cloud Formation Templates/SAM/CDK
  • AWS EC2/ECS/Kubernetes
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS API Gateway/Cognito
  • AWS SQS
  • AWS S3

Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

At Vanderbilt University, we are intentional about and assume accountability for fostering advancement and respect for equity, diversity, and inclusion for all students, faculty, and staff. Our commitment to diversity makes us who we are. We have created a community that celebrates differences and lets individuality thrive. As part of this commitment, we actively value diversity in our workplace and learning environments as we seek to take advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of everyone. The diverse voices of Vanderbilt represent an invaluable resource for the University in its efforts to fulfill its mission and strive to be an example of excellence in higher education.

Vanderbilt University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

Please note, all candidates selected for an offer of employment are subject to pre-employment background checks, which may include but are not limited to, based on the role for which they have been selected: criminal history, education verification, social media review, motor vehicle records, credit history, and professional license verification.