SOFTWARE ENGINEER IV Job at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Harlingen, TX 78550
Number of Vacancies
1
Location
Harlingen, Texas
Department
School of Medicine / Neuroscience
FTE
1.0
FLSA
Exempt
Scope of Job
Perform expert level duties in the Analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation for the computer-based systems for the Institute of Neuroscience to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and support the business processes of the University and all associated third party software applications.
Description of Duties
- Software Development Phase:
o Displays expert requirement analysis skills that includes the various tasks of gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software requirements.
o Displays expert level coding skills that involve the creation of a technical design document to provide a technical solution using abstract concepts and adhering to standards developed by the department, primarily to procedures relating to Software Development Lifecycle.
o Analysis/Design – Expert level skills for effectively communicating with the customer (most cases a business analyst or equivalent) to obtain information for creating technical documentation and providing the details for code development with emphasis in ingenuity and creativity to design and create new, functional software programs and complete applications.
o Demonstrates expert level testing skills to validate the code before releasing to customer for integrated testing.
o Coordinates development unit testing of code before releasing to customer for Functional Testing.
o Problem Solver Duty – Responsible for investigating and resolving problem issues occurring during scheduled week at an expert level pace with no assistance.
- Use of computational learning theory to address computational neuroscience problems.
- Implement a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) that provides researchers and clinicians with a Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform.
- Integrate complex phenotypes with complete genotypes.
- Work with programmers and/or neuroscientists with programming capabilities that integrates all subgroups of the Institute of Neuroscience.
- Manage and guide programmers from other collaborative groups corresponding to partners in shared grants.
- Oversee multiple programmers and in a multicenter approach.
- Acts as the Workload Manager, including management and prioritizing workload submitted by customer.
- Responsible for Technical Research to keep job knowledge up-to-date and in most cases self-teach new languages and new development tools to ensure the most feasible technical solution is proposed. Expert technical resource for junior members.
- Responsible for Quality Assurance, including reviewing objects to be moved to production and responsible for reviewing the changes provided by junior developers to ensure coding and documentations meet expectations as defined. Authorized to reject implementation until corrections made to the teams’ satisfaction.
- Expert in Adhoc Reporting code development – Creates and maintains adhoc SQL scripts\queries that are run from the Enterprise Administrative systems production environment.
- Responsible for Enterprise Administrative systems Upgrades – Authorized Technical Lead to coordinate (between teams), troubleshoot and research issues relating to technical upgrade installations.
- Manages customer service requests and coordinates resolution or redirection to appropriate team.
- Coordinate Teams – Coordinates/facilitates system changes with the systems Business Analysts, Database Administrators, Application Administrators, Access Administration Team.
- On Call Responsibilities- Required to be available for work during non-business hours
- Managing Test Environment Access – Responsible for granting, authorizing and documenting access to the test instances to the functional customers.
- Policy/Procedure Development – Developing team standard operating procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Supervision Received
General supervision from assigned supervisor.
Supervision Given
May supervise assigned staff.
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a Computer related major from an accredited university.
Preferred Education
None.
Licenses/Certifications
Preferred: ITIL Foundation Certification
Required Experience
Six (6) years of experience in programming and analysis for electronic computers and software including Python, C++, non SQL databases such as MongoDB, Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning Methods not constrained to Deep Learning and Data Analysis.
Preferred Experience
Experience in human genetics, multi-omics, and neuroimages applied to mental health problems. Experience in Real-time healthcare systems.
Equipment
Required: Use of high performance parallel computing environments. Comprehensive knowledge of electronic computers and healthcare software.
Working Conditions
Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Office Environment; some travel and weekend/evening work is required.
Other
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Ability to master new technology and applications. Must be able to multitask and manage projects concurrently. Possess resourcefulness and creative thinking skills for problem resolution. Possess analytical skills to effectively and accurately identify problem code. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Possess Technical Research skills (technical manuals and resources). Work effectively as an individual and as a team. Possess strong technical writing skills for documentation.
Physical Capabilities
N/A
Employment Category
Full-Time
Minimum Salary
Commensurate with Experience
Posted Salary
Commensurate with Experience
Position Available Date
03/20/2023
Grant Funded Position
No
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Posting Detail Information
EEO Statement
It is the policy of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to promote and ensure equal employment opportunities for all individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or protected veteran status. In accordance with the requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, our University is committed to comply with all government requirements and ensures non-discrimination in its education programs and activities, including employment. We encourage women, minorities and differently abled persons to apply for employment positions of interest.
Special Instructions to Applicants
Dear Applicant, Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following: *Date of Birth *Gender *Ethnicity/Race Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley reserves the right to discontinue accepting applications prior to the stated close date of this position, after meeting the posting requirement of three (3) calendar days. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (956) 665-2451 and/or careers@utrgv.edu.
Additional Information
UTRGV is a distributed location institution and working location is subject to change based on need.
All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the Chief Human Resources Officer.
All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the Chief Human Resources Officer.
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