Senior Application Developer - NCCT

Department:

85097 Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Academic Healthcare Innovation

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

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PURPOSE OF POSITION: The National Center for Clinical Trials (NCCT) is designed to serve as an innovative platform to revolutionize and catalyze the conduct of clinical trials−greatly accelerating the translation of scientific findings into improvements in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease for our communities and patients. The NCCT will offer core services for patient recruitment and enrollment, trial administration and follow-up, and to gather real world data and evidence.

The SeniorApplication Developer is part of the team that provides software engineering expertise including design, coding and architecture. They are also responsible for understanding in-depth cross department workflows and partners with customers to recommend system optimization opportunities and translates the opportunity into effective enhancements.  The Senior Application Developer is vital in the deployment of new workflows with business partners/teammates in the NCCT.  The Senior Application Developer mentors others on the application team while working collaboratively with our customers to bring cutting edge technology to the department and ensuring that our customers are satisfied.  The Senior Application Developer will work closely with the Program Director and Technical Lead(s) in the coordination of new projects from development to successful implementation.  This role will interface with all areas of Academic Research and will ensure that their team interfaces with all other NCCT teams to keep our customer and our patients as our number one focus.

This position will also assist with planning, designing, and executing web applications, and new technologies to enhance and extend clinical trial innovation throughout the NCCT. This person will be responsible for developing new ways for patients, providers and researchers to access, visualize, and interact with clinical and operational data via cutting-edge technology across the Advocate Health System. Senior Application development responsibilities include the oversight of the rapid production of prototypes, as well as the creation of an efficient pipeline from idea to prototype to product.  Projects also include assisting with building/designing other cloud based technologies that aren’t common within healthcare.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:  7+ years of directly relevant experience (Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology a plus or equivalent combination of education and experience)  

REPORTS TO:  

Program Director IV –  NNGN™ - the Wake Forest Center for Healthcare Innovation.  

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  

• Assists coordination of projects with limited scope. Collaborate with Project Manager to interact with customers to analyze, define and evaluate project requests; sets and maintains customer expectations. 
• Assist with collection, interpretation, and documentation of specifications required to develop new or revise existing functionality. 
• Develop complex databases or change existing databases as needed based on project request and scope, applying appropriate normalization and data integrity constraints.  
• Develop complex program code and applications in appropriate language(s) to complete project requirements, workflows, data collection or other related needs.  
• Create and/or maintain interfaces between systems utilizing appropriate and available interface technologies and tools.  
• Troubleshoot intricate program code and application errors in legacy systems written in a variety of programming languages.  May involve troubleshooting program code and applications written by other development staff.  
• Implements and tests fixes to configuration issues in the TEST/DEV application environments. Validates that application configurations deliver needed business functionality and work correctly with other applications.  
• Troubleshoots problems or questions from users. 
• When necessary participates in regular day-to-day communication with implementation team reviewing the software, analyzing business operations, and working with end user and vendor to tailor system