Software Engineer I​/Software Engineer Ii

Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
Human Resources
MASS Building 2 nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539

Edinburg:
Brownsville:
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00a.m.

- 5:00p.m.

Faculty Recruitment:
College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs

Robert

C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe

Location

Edinburg, Texas

Department

Office of the Provost Academic Affairs

FTE

1

FLSA

Exempt

SOFTWARE ENGINEER I
To develop fundamental skills including Analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation of the computer-based Information Systems to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and support the business processes of the University, including the Student, Finance, Human Resources ( ERP systems) and all associated third party software applications.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER II
Perform mid-level analysis, design, development, and implementation for the computer-based Information Systems to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and support the business processes of the University, including the Student, Finance, Human Resources ( ERP systems) and all associated third party software applications.

Description of Duties

Software Engineer I

• Software Development Phase:
  • Displays the fundamental requirement analysis skills that includes the various tasks of gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software requirements.
  • Develops the fundamental 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.
  • Analysis/Design
    - Builds fundamental skills for effectively communicating with the customer (in most cases a business analyst or equivalent) to obtain information for creating technical documentation and provides the details for code development with emphasis in ingenuity and creativity to design and create new, functional software programs and complete applications.
  • Builds fundamental testing skills to validate the code before releasing to customer for integrated testing.
  • Assumes Problem Solver Duty
    - Responsible for investigating and resolving problem issues occurring during scheduled week with occasional assistance of senior staff for guidance and direction.
• Develops fundamental knowledge of the functionality of the modules supported in the Enterprise Administrative systems.
• Develops fundamental technical research skills to keep job knowledge up-to-date and in most case self-teaches new languages and new development tools to ensure the most feasible technical solution is proposed.
• Documents the solutions using an industry standard technical document format. Example:
  Use Case Model, MD050.
• Learns the high level technical database structures of supported Enterprise Administrative systems.
• Tracks hours expended per assignment for reporting needs of department.
• Develops fundamental skills of interviewing customers to extract key information and direction to formulate and propose a solution.
• Has minimal judgment latitude for required decisions affecting deviations from approved project/assignment proposals.
• Acquires the skills of using the various software tools to maintain the different components of the Enterprise Administrative systems.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Software Engineer II

• Software Development Phase:
  • Displays requirement analysis skills that includes the various tasks of gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software requirements.
  • Displays 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.
  • Analysis/Design
    - Establishes 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 and emphasis in ingenuity and creativity to design and create new, functional software programs and complete applications.
  • Displays…