Job Description
Come Grow with Us
Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is a rapidly growing educational service company that has long been an industry leader in providing educational, operational and technological support services to the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still works closely with GCU to benefit thousands of students, families and the local inner-city community. We put people first, drive innovation, and do good in the community that we live and work in.
What you will do:
Works directly with business partners to develop the technical design of custom applications.
Defines best practices for application coding and design.
Works closely with business groups and development team to ensure that technical design and applications satisfy business needs.
Establishes product roadmaps and schedules with input from business groups and the development team.
Supports the definition, implementation of architectures, tools and processes to facilitate solution development.
Able to interface and effectively integrate Microsoft Office product suite. Full stack
Confer with users and team members to develop, understand and update requirements for configuration and development of software.
Write and maintain programming documentation on subjects including code, API functionality, and software issue creation/resolution.
Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored or accessed.
Maintain, support and troubleshoot Web applications hosted on a software as a service platform.
Identify opportunities for application scalability, sustainability & improvement.
Evaluate customer or internally drive functionality change requests for technical feasibility and level of effort.
Prepare database schema for review and deployment.
Execute programming updates for application updates or enhancements per project.
Conduct application software testing, prototype review, and quality assurance for stage and production release and post release monitoring and follow up.
What you will have:
Bachelors degree in a related discipline (computer science, information technology, etc.) from a regionally accredited institution.
Minimum of 5 years experience in software design and implementation; experience leading large projects, mentoring staff and creating problem-solving strategies.
Strong understanding of web servers, load-balancing, redundancy and 3-tier architecture; system development lifecycle processes; object-oriented development and principles.
An equivalent combination of directly-related work experience and education may be substituted upon supervisors approval.
Provide a positive example to students by supporting the Universitys Doctrinal Statement, Ethical Position Statement and Mission of Grand Canyon University.
Why work at GCE:
Exceptional workplace benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a 401K savings plan
Generous time off plan and 11 paid holidays
Paid time off to volunteer in the community or at GCU sponsored events
We also offer full-time employees, their spouses and dependent children an Education Tuition Discount Program