Senior Software Developer

Why choose the College of Lake County for your next opportunity? The College of Lake County (CLC) offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits that includes Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois health, Delta Dental and Superior Vision insurance plans, tuition support for employees and qualified family members, three retirement plans, disability, group and supplemental life insurance, health and dependent care flexible spending account plans, a compressed work week in the summer (Closed Fridays!),

generous vacation, sick and personal time off and 14 paid holidays each year. Some benefits will not be available for Part-Time or Part Time Staff Under 20 Hours (ex: health insurance). We value candidates who bring language skills that help us better serve and connect with our diverse community. Bilingual English/Spanish proficiency is preferred but not required.

Position Title:

Senior Software Developer

Job Summary:

The Senior Software Developer is accountable for the configuration, customization, administration, and maintenance of strategic ERP, document imaging and management, Customer Relation Management, Collaboration, and custom-developed solutions at the College. The Senior Software Developer understands ERP technology and software trends at a strategic level; is versant in implementing new technologies; architects, creates, maintains, upgrades, and monitors systems for optimal availability and performance;

and troubleshoots systems issues at their root cause. This role reports to the Director, Application Development OR the Manager, Applications Development.

Independently performs 75% or more of the following tasks:

• Accountable for the development and support of ERP, document imaging, collaboration and customer relation management solutions and custom-built solutions at the College.
• Uses the College’s standard development tools, such as ASP.net and People Tools, to create sustainable, maintainable, secure, privacy-sensitive, efficient, and effective solutions.
• Creates solutions that leverage enterprise database solutions through the use of SQL and other standard database interfaces.
• Understands and, as needed, is able to reverse engineer ERP code in order to troubleshoot, customize, and integrate with other solutions in use at the College.
• Creatively collaborates and consults with key users to find effective means to operate the College’s processes through configuration rather than customization of solutions.
• Creates and manages complex configuration of ERP-related solutions, with a creative ability to address the College’s unique needs without resorting to customization.
• As needed, is able to build customizations of solutions when configuration does not address the College’s needs.
• Uses the College’s preferred scripting and job scheduling solutions to create automations and extracts from solutions that meet the needs of other departments.
• Creates and maintains the strategy, standards, planning, and execution of solutions, including software, updates, patches, and licenses.
• Maintains subject matter expertise in solutions, including the knowledge, skills, and desire to optimize the use of all features of the solutions to maximize their benefit to the College.
• Accountable for the expert installation, configuration, and maintenance of the solution on servers along with images to be installed on desktops.
• Administers user access to the solution or works with Technology Support team to create and maintain access according to the College’s policies and procedures, creating, changing and deleting user access and accounts per request.
• Monitors, responds to, and mitigates security threats related to solutions in collaboration with the College’s…