Senior Application Development Analyst

Exempt

Immediately

Salary commensurate with experience

40 hours weekly

Office of the Chief Information Officer

A resume is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans - and people all over the world - through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, five health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 116,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System's fourteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.

Designs, codes, tests, implements, and supports internally developed application software. Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code or modules. Participates in data architecture design, performance monitoring, and product evaluations.

• Provides technical and/or project management leadership on large projects. Assists in resolving customer complaints with software and responds to suggestions for improvements. Works with other technical staff to understand problems with software and resolve them.
• Conducts application design, coding, testing and implementation for complex applications and conducts application code review. Maintains applications software and collects and reviews performance monitoring information as needed.
• Designs complex software systems that address broad technical, business, or scientific needs. Analyzes technical or research related problems and develops software solutions to them.
• Installs, configures, and maintains system components and libraries that support software development. Designs, generates, tests and maintains programs for specific components of the overall software development environment.
• Researches available solutions and integrates them into existing computing environments. Conducts product evaluation. Reviews product specifications and assists in determining product enhancements and modifications required. Makes recommendations on whether to develop new code, reuse existing code, or purchase new software packages.
• Prepares system documentation, develops standards and education for users. Provide end user training on application software and may develop user manuals.

• Demonstrated ability to work with business users to analyze business problems /processes.
• Knowledge of common web software security vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into web applications using OOP principles.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with a team.
• Ability to work in Agile/Scrum environment.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or a directly related field and five years of related work experience which includes at least three years of work experience in the .NET framework.
• One year of college (30 semester hours) may be substituted for one year of the required experience on a year-for-year basis, allowing up to a maximum of 4 years substituted experience.

• Proficiency in .NET Core and C# for building web applications and RESTful APIs.
• Strong experience with SQL Server for database design, query optimization, and maintenance.
• Hands-on experience in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, and Git.
• Familiarity with Bootstrap, jQuery, or other front-end frameworks.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g., xUnit, Postman for API testing, Selenium).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) is a plus.

• Uses standard office equipment
• Requires occasional evening or weekend hours
• Hybrid work environment (remote & office)

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to a minimum of 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Participation in TRS is mandatory.

A background check will be conducted on candidates under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request form the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.

The University of Texas System Administration is a federal contractor committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees in all terms and conditions of employment. U. T. System will provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws.

For information on accommodations for individuals with disabilities, please contact the Office of Talent and Innovation at oti@utsystem.edu.