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Position: IT Software Engineer 3, Research Application Developer, Yale School of Management

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Overview

The Yale School of Management (SOM) is a world-renowned graduate business school that offers several degrees and programs. SOM’s mission is to educate leaders for business and society. That mission is deeply wound into all our activities from classroom pedagogy to the choices we make in managing our campus.

We are seeking a Research Application Developer for the Yale School of Management to work closely with faculty members. This role is an integral member of the Yale School of Management (SOM) Behavioral Lab research staff with primary responsibility for developing research-specific applications to facilitate data collection for Marketing and Organizational Behavior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, translating study ideas into working code.

Reports to the Senior Associate Director, Initiative on Leadership and Organization with a dual report to the Manager for Application Development.

Essential Duties

Develop and maintain study-specific applications, along with supplementary web services or processes, for the purpose of accurately and securely collecting various forms of response data from users. Consult regularly with Marketing and OB researchers to gather and validate requirements, utilizing existing knowledge of psychological experimentation and behavioral science. Translate gathered requirements into readable, well-documented code. Adhere to modern standards of ethical and secure data collection outlined by the Yale Central Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Manage all other aspects of application development, including creating design specifications, mapping out data flows and structures, managing data storage, performing unit testing, troubleshooting, deploying the application, and monitoring end user feedback. Troubleshoot and maintain existing projects, upgrade and modernize when necessary. Perform complex systems analysis and programming tasks requiring advanced techniques. Define system objectives and prepare systems design specifications to meet user requirements and satisfy interface demands.

Provide routine daily maintenance, code review and updates of existing sites and applications of all sizes.

Manage technical projects for the Marketing and OB researchers that are developed through third-party vendors, maintain and support final deliverables. Launch projects by gathering requirements, meeting with stakeholders, interfacing with other Yale SOM departments, reviewing potential bids, and selecting a correct vendor for the task. Work with external vendors during the discovery and requirements gathering process to provide information about the needs of the requested application and background information about Behavioral Lab research operations.

Coordinate with Yale SOM IT for compliance and integration. Ensure that ongoing projects stay on budget and on time by regularly meeting with external vendors and reviewing progress. Maintain and support the final deliverables provided by external vendors, including coordinating user acceptance testing (UAT) generating documentation for end users, resolving critical bugs, and managing and monitoring the application post‑deployment.

Develop non-study-specific applications to support staff and lab operations when necessary.

Contribute technical knowledge and expertise to the staff to help streamline and improve lab operations.

Required

Skills and Abilities

Extensive proficiency with front-end development including UI/UX design, HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. Proficiency with server-side development including PHP and Node.js. Proficiency with relational databases (e.g. SQL) and non-relational databases (e.g. Mongo

DB).

Ability to leverage knowledge of psychological experimentation and behavioral psychology to translate research ideas into working code.

Solid analytical skills with ability to assess complex problems and translate them into a functioning solution.

Exceptional communication skills; clear and quick responsiveness, ability to provide accurate progress updates, ability to communicate about programming with a non-technical audience. Professional demeanor and discretion.

Ability to work collaboratively with researchers and staff. Ability to work independently. Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships within the Behavioral Lab, SOM and broader Yale communities.

Preferred

Skills and Abilities

Master’s degree and education in research psychology or related field.

Knowledge of SQL under SQL Server, MySQL, Postgre; knowledge of No

SQL solutions such as Redis, Memcached or equivalent.

Experience working with Java, PHP, Python, other current software development…


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