Principal Software Engineer

Description

Position Title Principal Software Engineer

Department Information
The Enterprise Scholarly Systems (ESS) is a new team based in UITS Enterprise Systems to support production digital scholarly information management services for use across the university, to be developed and supported in collaboration with IUB Libraries and IUPUI University Library.

Primary stakeholders for these services will be libraries, archives, museums, and the IU Office of Scholarly Publishing, but faculty and academic school- and department-based projects may also make use of these services to create and manage digital content of long-term value in research, teaching, and learning.

Job Summary
Responsible for collaborating, leading, and ensuring the successful delivery of critical components of Enterprise Systems serving the faculty, staff, and students at all campuses of Indiana University. Many of these systems require continuous operation/high availability and 24 X 7 support.

Organizes and owns initiatives to analyze functional business processes, determine system specifications, design solutions, write software, and implement critical system applications while maintaining standards and high quality. Oversees other applications administrators and developers to resolve complex technical issues. Responsible for ensuring established standards are followed and that the latest versions of the software infrastructure are being used, as well as ensuring the applications take advantage of emerging functionality that increases technical productivity or provides value added new services.

Collaborates with functional business clients and other teams within the central information technology organization. Develops and maintains excellent relationships with all of these groups through careful consideration and thorough communication on analysis and programming assignments.

Works independently as a senior member of the team and maintains excellent relationships with functional and technical members of the team, through careful consideration and thorough communications on analysis and programming assignments. Demonstrates initiative, creativity, and innovation in the development of stable, maintainable, and efficient computing solutions. Works as an effective leader on the team providing training, guidance, and mentoring to less experienced staff.

Required Qualifications
REQUIRED: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business systems, or related discipline and five years of professional experience working as an application administrator or engineer using the standard Enterprise Systems development tools and frameworks.

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered.

Expert knowledge of Enterprise Systems standard development tools and frameworks; experience working with enterprise-scale software development; and understanding of common design patterns, service-oriented architecture, test-driven development, and agile methodology. Demonstrable skill in analyzing complex problems and producing concrete, actionable solutions, specifically as it pertains to production troubleshooting; and experience resolving highly complex integration issues involving multiple technologies and business areas.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal including a customer service attitude and ability to work with a variety of people with varying degrees of technical knowledge. Willingness to work as part of a team in a dynamic and complex environment; and ability to assume project leadership for ES projects and work at the highest level of technical complexity. High levels of accuracy, problem-solving, dependability, and responsibility; and enthusiasm for learning new technologies.

Preferred Qualifications
Working knowledge of Hydra repository framework and XML or RDF-based library metadata standards; experience with the following: library digital repository systems; administering Fedora repository environment; developing or maintaining web applications using Ruby on Rails.

Working Conditions / Physical Demands
Must be able to work on-call and after hours as needed as many of the systems require continuous operation/high availability and 24 X 7 support.

Salary Range
Salary Plan PAE
Salary Grade 4IT
FLSA Exempt
Work Location
Job Category IT/Development/Design
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number 00067P
Open Date 10/29/2015
Close Date 12/03/2015
Open Until Filled No
Special Instructions Summary
This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Incentive Program. Details can be found here.

Link to IU Job Description: 

https://iujobs.peopleadmin.com/postings/19022