Senior Developer

Grand Canyon Education delivers best in class technology solutions for its faculty, staff and students.  The CRM team builds and manages a number of technology platforms and key integrations across the enterprise.  The technology stack is comprised of Microsoft Dynamics CE / Sales, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse etc), Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft BizTalk, Custom Web (.Net) Solutions and other highly specialized, fit for purpose components used to meet GCE demands.  This position requires extensive experience with key technologies where we continually look to build, enhance and support on the broader Grand Canyon mission.

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.
• 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:

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics (on-premises and online)
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with Microsoft Dynamics (preferably CRM / CE / Sales)
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in software design and implementation; experience leading large projects, mentoring staff and creating problem-solving strategies.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
• Highly self-motivated and directed with a keen attention to detail and willingness to learn and be a team player
• Elevated technical knowledge of current software protocols, business platforms, middleware, internet standards, and database software
• Demonstrated ability to use and understand: Modern Microsoft development stack, Power Platform, Azure Cloud Services
• SQL experience and proficient understanding of relational databases
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (computer science, information technology, etc.) from a regionally accredited institution
• Strong understanding of web servers, load-balancing, redundancy and n-tier architecture; system development lifecycle processes; object-oriented development and principles.
• An equivalent combination of directly related wo