Associate Director, Application Development

Department

Booth IT: Application Development

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

The Associate Director of Application Development at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business is responsible for directing the day-to-day activities of the application developers reporting to the role. The Associate Director will be proactive and highly motivated to provide excellent customer service and lead a talented team of technology staff. The Associate Director of Application Development responsibilities include guiding 3-5 Application Developers during their day-to-day development activities. They will mentor these developers, perform code reviews and be available to consult as needed. They work closely with the Director, Application Development to set priorities and goals for their team. This position will interact regularly with other Information Technology staff as well as end users and will utilize oral and written communication skills.

The Associate Director of Application Development is a senior member of the Application Development team. The position also requires strong technical skills and experience developing and supporting applications on the Microsoft platform utilizing C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment. The Associate Director of Application Development will be a member of various project teams responsible for implementing new technologies and applications. They will also be responsible for enhancement requests, bug fixes and application support.

Responsibilities

• Provides administrative, scheduling, and disciplinary oversight for team, including, but not limited to, time keeping, scheduling, continual performance review feedback, hiring and terminations.
• Provides direction, guidance, prioritization, coaching and mentoring to the Data Warehouse team members for their day-to-day work.
• Collaborates with project managers, business users, infrastructure teams, as well as other team members, senior and executive levels in all departments.
• Coordinates with business and IT teams to improve stability of source data platforms.
• Coordinates with various teams on issues, analyzes root cause, and assists in efficient resolution of production issues.
• Serves as technical lead on development projects of any size or complexity, including the largest and most complex projects.
• Works closely with the Systems and Operations teams to deploy applications, implement application monitoring processes, perform software upgrades, configuration management, and ensure that the various environments are kept in sync.
• Ensures that applications perform within specified SLAs and uses automated testing procedures to validate and document performance metrics.
• Stays adept on new technologies and introduces new technologies and tools to the development team.
• Responsible for application security and ensuring that the applications are not vulnerable to attacks.
• Maintains developer tools including Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio, Jira, Telerik Controls and Bootstrap.
• Designs, develops, and maintains large and high complexity applications, interfaces, web services, r