Position Summary

The Systems Developer will work with the Manager of Teaching & Scholarly Learning, the Associate Vice President of Learning Environments, and the Learning Environments team to design, develop, test, and maintain applications in support of Rice's Teaching and Learning mission. A central piece of this development will involve expanding the Canvas Learning Management System toolset via application programming interfaces (APIs) and Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) integrations, via both self-hosted and external applications. Secondary responsibilities include working with the Business Intelligence (BI) department on Learning Analytics, creating reports, and big data analysis. This position is remote-eligible.

Essential Functions

• Assesses user needs and requirements
• Designs and develops applications that may involve sophisticated data manipulation
• Maintains and updates existing programs
• Troubleshoots and solves technical problems
• Creates programs to meet reporting and analysis needs
• Provides production system support and issue resolution
• Follows team software development methodology
• Serves as a technical resource with respect to applications
• Performs all other duties as assigned

Experience and Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field
  • In lieu of the education requirement, additional related experience, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year-for-year basis may be substituted
• 3 years of related experience
  • In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year-for-year basis may be substituted

Skills Required

• Current knowledge of the latest software and design standards
• Ability to define and solve logical problems for technical applications
• Designing and developing software applications.
• Involving the analysis, design, programming, development, modification, testing, and implementation of computer systems, databases, programs, and software applications.
• A proven track record of related software implementations and accomplishments
• Knowledge of and ability to select, adapt and effectively use a variety of programming methods
• Ability to recognize and recommend needed changes in user and/or operations procedures
• Progressive work experience in designing, developing, coding, and maintaining data-driven applications
• Basic knowledge of software engineering principles.
• Strong knowledge of at least one programming language

Preferences

• Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in MIS, Computer Science or Engineering
• Experience
  • Experience with Canvas Learning Management System.
  • Experience working with Ellucian's Banner Enterprise Resource Planning System.
  • Programming in Java, Python, or C#, including XML and JavaScript
  • Proficiency with Oracle PL/SQL databases
  • Technical experience with LDAP, CAS and SAML SSO technologies as well as strong understanding of APIs.
  • Technical experience with LTIs.
  • REST API development, testing and documentation Agile project development.
  • Experience with Data warehousing concepts and structures. Data mining, business intelligence, and querying of databases (including data cubes).
  • Experience with OAuth protocol and other open web standards.
  • Experience with Tableau or similar data reporting tools. Familiarity with IMS Standards.
  • Experience in Ruby, JSON, or related
  • Experience with XML transformation
  • Technical knowledge of mobile application development (either Android or iOS).
• Skills
  • Working on complex web and database projects
  • Linux and windows system administration
  • Project management

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