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This position involves developing, enhancing, and supporting software applications that serve university operations.\nThe successful candidate will work with a variety of applications and technologies, contributing to both existing systems and new development initiatives. The role requires strong problem-solving skills, the ability to work independently, and effective collaboration with technical teams and university stakeholders.\nThe position primarily supports Transportation Services applications but may also contribute to other university systems.\nEssential Duties and Tasks:\nApplication Development and Integration\nDesigns, develops, enhances, and maintains moderately complex to complex software applications and system integrations.\nIndependently performs assigned development activities from requirements analysis through implementation, coordinating with technical leads and team members as appropriate.\nMaintains and modernizes existing applications, including legacy systems, while contributing to new application development.\nDevelops and maintains database queries, views, stored procedures, and application data access components.\nDevelops, maintains, and troubleshoots APIs, web services, and integrations with internal and external systems.\nAnalyzes requirements and prepares application designs, technical specifications, and supporting documentation.\nParticipates in peer code reviews and provides constructive feedback on code quality, security, and maintainability.\nApplies established software development lifecycle practices, coding standards, source control, and secure development principles.\nUses AI-assisted development tools as appropriate while independently reviewing and validating generated code and other outputs.\nCollaborates with developers, technical leads, database administrators, and other technical personnel to implement software solutions.\nEvaluates development tools, technologies, and frameworks and provides technical guidance to team members as appropriate.\nSoftware Testing and Quality\nDevelops and executes unit, integration, and regression tests to verify application functionality and adherence to requirements.\nInvestigates defects, identifies root causes, implements corrections, and validates fixes.\nReviews application changes for quality, security, performance, and compliance with established development standards.\nEvaluates application interfaces and workflows for usability, accessibility, and consistency.\nSupports user acceptance testing by assisting stakeholders, investigating reported issues, and resolving identified defects.\nDocuments testing activities and results in accordance with established software development lifecycle practices.\nParticipates in release validation to confirm application changes are appropriately tested before deployment.\nProject Planning and Collaboration\nParticipates in planning and coordinating assigned application development, enhancement, and maintenance activities.\nWorks directly with customers, product owners, project teams, stakeholders, and business end users to understand business processes; gather, clarify, and validate business and technical requirements; demonstrate application changes; and discuss issues and enhancements for new and existing applications.\nEstimates development effort and identifies technical dependencies, implementation risks, and resource needs.\nCommunicates progress, technical issues, and project dependencies to project leads, managers, and stakeholders.\nContributes recommendations regarding application design, implementation approaches, and development priorities.\nCollaborates with stakeholders to review completed functionality and support business acceptance.\nApplication Maintenance, Deployment, and Support\nMonitors application health and performance using available logging, monitoring, and diagnostic tools.\nInvestigates and resolves production incidents, application defects, integration failures, and operational issues, escalating when appropriate.\nPerforms root cause analysis and implements corrective or preventive improvements to support application reliability and security.\nSupports application builds, deployments, configuration changes, and releases using established CI/CD and change management practices.\nInvestigates deployment failures and environment-specific issues in coordination with other technical teams.\nMaintains operational, deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting documentation.\nCommunicates application support issues, resolution progress, and follow-up actions to stakeholders.\nOther Duties\nPerforms other duties as assigned.\nWhat you need to know\nSalary: $72,730 annually\nSpecial Instructions: A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended. You may upload these in the CV/Resume section.\nRequired Education and Experience:\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.\nThree years of software applications developer experience.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nApplication Developmen t: Experience developing and maintaining applications using C# and .NET, including legacy .NET Framework and modern .NET applications.\nDatabases and Integrations:Experience with ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, desktop, console, or service-based applications.\nExperience with Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle, including SQL queries, views, stored procedures, and database troubleshooting.\nExperience with Entity Framework or similar object-relational mapping frameworks.\nExperience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Bootstrap, jQuery, or similar web technologies.\nExperience developing and consuming REST APIs, web services, and system integrations.\n\nSoftware Development Practices:Experience with Git and GitHub, including branching, pull requests, and peer code reviews.\nExperience with CI/CD practices, automated builds, deployment pipelines, and application configuration.\n\nApplication Maintenance and Support:Knowledge of application security, secure coding, performance, and accessibility principles.\nExperience with software testing, defect resolution, production troubleshooting, and application monitoring.\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools while independently reviewing and validating generated results.\n\nRequirements and Collaboration: Experience gathering requirements, estimating development effort, and collaborating with customers and project teams.\nSpecialized Systems: Experience developing or supporting parking management, permitting, or enforcement system integrations.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nAbility to multitask and work cooperatively with others\nKnowledge of software development principles, application design, programming, debugging, testing, relational databases, version control, secure coding, and software development lifecycle practices.\nAbility to analyze complex technical problems, interpret business and technical requirements, develop and maintain software applications, manage competing priorities, and work independently and collaboratively with others.\nAbility to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical audiences, gather and clarify requirements through discussions with stakeholders and business end users, explain technical concepts in understandable terms, and provide responsive customer service.\nOther Requirements and Factors:\nThis role may require working outside of standard office hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, to support the demands of technology services and ensure the seamless operation of essential systems.\nAbility to maintain the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, which may include communications systems, computer networks and systems, cybersecurity systems, electrical grid, hazardous waste treatment system or water treatment system· \nRequired to be on call, work weekends, and times outside regular business hours as warranted by business necessity. \nThis position is security sensitive.\nThis position requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M University System/TAMU policies, regulations, rules and procedures.\nAll tasks and job responsibilities must be performed safely without injury to self or others in compliance with System and University safety requirements(If applicable).\nInstructions to Applicants : Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.\nAll positions are security-sensitive. 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