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About Us Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. More than 10,500 students choose Augusta for educational opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts and application, humanities, and the health sciences.

Augusta is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research is creating a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world-class clinicians are bringing the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.

• Job : 279560
• Location: Augusta University
• Full/Part Time: Full Time

This position analyzes, implements, and modifies application systems with responsibilities for planning, programming, testing, debugging, and deploying, within established standards, to support the organization's application systems in database, client-server, and internet environments. The incumbent consults with business systems analysts, other systems analysts, and/or users to identify functional and technical requirements. The incumbent acts as the project manager for moderately complex projects by directing the activities of more junior level systems analysts or coordinating activities with other technical teams and may assist business systems analysts with specifications and development of documentation that describes application deployment and operating procedures.

• Analyze business, academic, and research problems and application programming requests as they relate to identity management set-up and integration; develop scope, objectives, and cost-benefit analyses for use in determining accepted programming requests; develop project plans for moderately complex systems including task definitions, costs, and time estimates.
• Program, test, and document systems according to team standards in order to minimize system problems and assure quality control. Follow established change enablement processes to deploy application additions and modifications to production environments.
• Assist on the management/oversight of assigned projects and technical staff engaged in system design, development, and maintenance activities; act as a project manager of large cross-departmental projects as needed.
• Mentor and assist with training technical personnel in ITS and institution-wide, ensuring technical personnel/users possess required knowledge of system applications, standards, operations, and capabilities.
• Work with business systems analysts to document system specifications sufficient to timely development and implementation of application systems and modifications. Participate in fit-gap studies, reviews of functional requirements, system design, program specifications, test plans, and test results in accordance with established standards. Participate in data governance activities relative to documentation of technical definitions and specifications.
• Advise internal and external system support personnel in the diagnosis and correction of system problems. Advise on application system upgrades and enhancements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology or related field of study with seven years' experience in a relevant field of work including five years combination of high-level programming and systems analysis and design including a minimum of two years of programming.
• OR Associate's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology or related field of study with ten years' experience in a relevant field of work including six years combination of high-level programming and systems analysis and design including a minimum of three years of programming.

Knowledge: All phases of the project development cycle, project management tools and documentation needs and techniques; structured systems methodologies, data mapping techniques, and a broad range of relevant multi-user applications.

Skills: Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.

Abilities: Ability to maintain confidentiality; proven ability to communicate effectively verbally, in writing, and through formal presentations at the technical and non-technical level; proven ability to develop an effective, collaborative working relationship with a variety of representative groups with potentially dissimilar priorities; ability to design, conduct, and evaluate systems testing with a focus on IDM integrations; research and evaluate the suitability of application software and hardware products;

ability to design, develop, and implement integrated application systems solutions to organizational requirements using relational…