Research Application Developer

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Hourly Range

$93,750.00 - $

Overview The Research Application Developer an integral member of the Yale School of Management (SOM) Behavioral Lab research staff, 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 Senior Associate Director, Initiative on Leadership & Organization with dual report to Manager for Application Development.

Executes all phases of application development process, including gathering requirements, designing readable code, carrying out unit testing, generating usable documentation, managing data storage & supports/maintains projects post-deployment. Develops front-end and back-end aspects of each application & ensures secure and accurate data collection from end users to database. This position is responsible for project management of applications developed through third-party vendors.

Gathers requirements, holds meetings with stakeholders & coordinates with supervisors to establish new projects. Manages vendor relationship through regular meetings, ensures that projects are delivered successfully with respect to budget & timeline. Responsible for maintaining final product delivered by vendor & works with vendor to resolve critical issues. Essential Duties:
Develop and maintain study-specific applications, along with supplementary web services or processes, to accurately & securely collect 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 & behavioral science. Translate gathered requirements into readable, well-documented code. Adhere to modern standards of ethical and secure data collection outlined by Yale Central Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Manage all other aspects of application development, including creating design specifications, mapping out data flows & structures, managing data storage, performing unit testing, troubleshooting, deploying application & monitoring end user feedback. Troubleshoot and maintain existing projects, upgrade and modernize when necessary. Perform complex systems analysis & programming tasks requiring advanced techniques. Define system objectives & 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 Marketing & OB researchers that are developed through third-party vendors, maintain & support final deliverables. Launch projects by gathering requirements, meet with stakeholders, interface with SOM departments, review potential bids & select 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 ongoing projects stay on budget and on time by regularly meeting with external vendors and reviewing progress. Maintain & support 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…