Senior Software Engineer
The University of Texas at AustinAbout the role
Job Posting Title:
Senior Software Engineer----
Hiring Department:
Enterprise Technology - Campus Solutions----
Position Open To:
All Applicants----
Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40----
FLSA Status:
Exempt----
Earliest Start Date:
Immediately----
Position Duration:
Expected to Continue----
Location:
AUSTIN, TX----
Job Details:
General Notes
Flexible work arrangements are available for this position, including the ability to work remotely. We would prefer a candidate located in the Central Texas Region who is available to come to campus for occasional in-person events, team meetings, team building activities, etc.
This position provides life/work balance with typically a 40-hour work week and travel limited to training (e.g., conferences/courses).
Enterprise Technology is dedicated to supporting the mission of the University of Texas at Austin of unlocking potential and preparing future leaders of the state.
Your skills will make a difference.
You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for research and the work you do will make a difference in the lives of our students, faculty and staff. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working for our campus.
The University of Texas at Austin and Enterprise Technology provide an outstanding benefits package to our staff. Those benefits include:
- Competitive health benefits (Employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
- Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
- Teachers Retirement System of Texas (a defined benefit retirement plan)
- Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
- Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
- Training and conference opportunities
- Tuition assistance
- Athletic ticket discounts
- Access to UT Austin's libraries and museums
- Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Capital metro buses with staff ID card
For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards
Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.
This position requires you to maintain internet service and a mobile phone with voice and data plans to be used when required for work.
Purpose
The Senior Software Engineer will be a technical member and leader on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team. They will play a significant role in advancing the strategic IAM goals for services and driving the implementation of solutions to meet campus IAM needs.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, design, develop, and document both legacy and new information systems that support IAM services. Analyzes technical or research related problems and develops software solutions. Assignments are broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity and a high level of programming and operating system expertise.
- Designs and writes system programs to optimize and/or simplify systems-related tasks and develops and documents clear application programming interfaces. Researches available solutions and integrates them into existing computing environments.
- Installs, configures, and maintains operating system components, application servers, and libraries that support software development. Ensure compliance with policies and configuration guidelines.
- Prepares system documentation, develops standards and education for users.
- Lead the development of team software development standards, process improvements, and technical documentation. Provide mentorship for junior technical staff members.
- Provide operational and customer support for IAM services, including monitoring systems, providing customer service, investigating issues, and repairing bugs. Collaborate with colleagues to fulfill and improve delivery of IT services.
- Communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders to elicit requirements, present solutions, and investigate and resolve issues.
- Perform application quality assurance: participate
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