Abilene Christian University Looking for Programmer Analyst 1 Full Time

About
ACU

ACU is affiliated with the fellowship of the Church of Christ. All applicants must be professing Christians and willing to
support the Christian mission and purpose of Abilene Christian University while employed by the university.

Department:
Enterprise Applications

Employee Class: Exempt Full-time

Basic Responsibilities

A.
Develop, maintain, and integrate software used by the university.
B. Administer and support software applications used by the
university.
C. Provide customer support.

Flexible schedules including work-from-home options are available
to motivated individuals.

Essential Duties

Other duties may be assigned. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to
enable individuals to perform the essential functions.
A. Develop, maintain, and integrate software used by the university.
1. Writing
and maintaining software to meet program specifications.
2. Integrating and modifying third party software with the ACU
environment.
3. Modifying software to accommodate the ACU environment.
4. Testing new software and changes to existing software to
ensure applications
meet ACU’s quality standards and conform to industry practices.
5. Documenting software systems, including program
development and revisions in
a source code repository.

B. Administer and support software applications used by the
university.
1. Installing new software and required upgrades.
2. Testing new software and changes to existing software to ensure
applications
meet ACU’s quality standards and conform to industry practices.
3. Documenting software systems.
4. Participating in
teams to maximize the use of software applications on campus.

C. Provide customer support.
1. Supporting business areas in their
use of software applications.
2. Analyzing business requirements and recommending software to fill business
needs.
3. Researching
and responding to questions and problems related to software
systems.
4. Documenting issues identified in software systems.
5.
Creating a path to resolution for issues identified in software systems.

Professional Development Requirements

A.
Skills
1. Adept interpersonal and communications skills.
2. Strong organizational skills, ability to work on multiple tasks
simultaneously.
3. Programming experience in Java or Python.
4. Experience with relational SQL databases.
5. Familiarity with an
Agile workflow.
6. Basic understanding of a RESTful API.
7. Familiarity with code management tools such as Git.
8. Knowledge of
client and server operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.
9. Familiarity with web and application server setup and
administration.
10. An understanding of usability and accessibility issues.
11. Ability to learn and keep current with information
technology and its application to Higher Education. This includes participating in conferences and training classes on Higher Education
application software or computing systems.

B. Training Modules Required
1. Software development seminars or training.
2.
Applications training.
3. Operating systems training.
4. Database Management Systems training or courses.
5. Interpersonal and
communications classes and workshops.
6. Time and multiple priorities management workshops.

Qualifications

ACU is
affiliated with the fellowship of the Church of Christ. This position requires the employee to be a professing Christian and to be willing
to support the Christian mission of ACU.

Professional
1. Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in STEM, or equivalent experience.
2.
Programming, database support, or systems support experience.
3. Application management and support experience.
C. Personal
1. Work
as a team member.
2. Good communication skills: oral and written.
3. Strong people skills: interact with students, faculty, staff,
contractors, and vendors.

Physical Demands
A. Must be able to work at a computer for extended periods of time.
B.
Must be able to work extended hours as the need arises. This includes on-call rotation and performing software maintenance and updates
outside of working hours.

Additional Information

ACU does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color,
age, sex, disability, genetic information, national or ethnic origin in employment opportunities, in keeping with applicable state and
federal law.

ACU is committed to maintaining a safe and secure campus environment and protecting the university’s financial and
physical assets.  Therefore, Abilene Christian University conducts background checks on all candidates for employment in security sensitive
positions.