Position Summary

The IT applications development and system administrators will primarily support for the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and secondarily support other academic departments within the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).  The incumbent reports to the BME Director of Finance and Administration for BME projects and systems.  Projects for other departments will be directed by the school's Chief Information Officer (CIO).The incumbent will implement and support hardware/software solutions for the departmental needs in educational, research and business.  Proactively assesses the IT hardware and software for improved efficiency/performance and/or upgrades in order to support departmental goals, activities and business processes; develops and updates standard operating procedures and business workflow in the assigned area of responsibility.  As part of the engineering school's IT team - adhere to university policies, technical standards and best practices for operational excellence.

Responsibilities

•  (70%) APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: 

  Develop, maintain and support applications for faculty, staff and students.  The successful candidate must possess a strong technical background in application development as well as proven skills at leveraging technologies and the ability to work collaboratively with users and other IT staff as part of a team.  Knowledge of at least one of the programming language of Python, PHP or JavaScript.  Knowledge of version control, SQL databases and familiarity with non-SQL technologies.  Willingness and ability to learn technologies as needed to support new and existing applications, licensing agreements.

• (20%) SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION:

  Manage departmental servers and systems for research, instruction and business office in a heterogeneous network with Windows, Linux and Mac systems.  Able to design and build new servers, configure existing systems and install applications and packages.  Able to analyze and troubleshoot hardware & software issues and adhere to university standards for cyber security.

• (10%) OTHER TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

  Provide IT support in areas such as monitoring systems, network security, backups for DR, AV/teleconferencing system support and end-user workstations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering-related field is required.  MS degree is preferred.

  A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in applications development and/or system administration with preference for experience in academic environments.  Solid coding experience with at least one of the three languages Python, JavaScript or PHP.  Knowledge of databases such as MySQL, SQL server or a non-SQL database.  System administration knowledge with Windows, Mac, Linux or cloud providers such as AWS or GCP.

  Candidate must be a self-starter with excellent oral and written communication skills, strong attention to detail, strategic thinking, ability to work reliably and independently, strong teamwork skills and customer service attitude.

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