1. Provides an overall leadership role. Serves as a technical advisor to programmers and provide technical guidance to leadership to assist with the formulating of long range development plans. 2. Leads efforts to evaluate University business and administrative processes and needs; identifies, analyzes and defines systems requirements for large administrative areas. Designs and implements large and highly complex administrative systems. 3. Leads the planning, development and implementation of business solutions. Ensures stakeholder and intended user's needs, scheduled timeline, and budgetary targets are met or exceeded. 4. Defines and executes quality assurance and unit testing procedures to ensure high quality solutions. Monitors effectiveness and efficiency of applications and systems and conduct initiatives to improve system availability, cost, performance and manageability across the lifecycle. Performs highly complex and unusual problem solving. 5. Leads, plans, and manages major projects; including architectural design, technology selection, and methodologies to apply. Advises and influences both internal and external consulting teams. 6. Develops and oversees production support functions and integrates system requirements among several departments. Formulates systems design schedule and writes program modules. 7. Leads and ensures ongoing maintenance and support for applications and systems. Leads technical evaluations. Interface with vendors to resolve major software issues. Responsible for final decisions on purchases of hardware and software products. 8. Trains, mentors, and develops technical staff. Leads and oversees support for training of end users. 9. Recommends and creates new policy. Creates and utilizes best practices. 10. Takes a leadership role in keeping current with existing and emerging technologies and methodologies. Provides leadership in the ongoing establishment and use of programming standards and methodologies, with intent to improve overall efficiency of group and client satisfaction. 11. May perform other duties as assigned.
Required Skill/ability 1:Proven experience in developing complex software systems using Python and JavaScript
Required Skill/ability 2:Proficiency in managing cloud and on-premise servers, configuring and maintaining secure networks.
Required Skill/ability 3:Demonstrated ability to design and implement end-to-end solutions, including database design, backend API development, and frontend interfaces.
Required Skill/ability 4:Strong leadership skills with the ability to supervise, mentor, and guide junior developers and interdisciplinary team members.
Required Skill/ability 5:Expertise in agile software development practices, including iterative planning, user story creation, and collaborative team workflows with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)
Posting Position Title: Senior Software Engineer
University Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Bachelor's Degree in a related field and six years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.