Application Developer Lead - WashU IT

Scheduled Hours

40

Provide senior technical leadership for IAM application development, owning solution design and delivery of cross-system integrations and user-facing tools that support authentication and identity governance. Mentor and guide a second developer through code reviews, patterns, and engineering practices. Ensure delivered solutions meet organizational expectations for secure coding, operational support, and service reliability.

• Lead application lifecycle activities: develop and implement complex applications on one or more platforms, ensuring proper documentation. Lead design discussions with IT staff and customers. Devise or modify procedures to solve complex problems. Serve as responsible for quality assurance, ensuring new/modified software applications are ready for release. Manage relationships with software vendors and external service providers. Ensure team members adhere to code reviews and standards.
  
  Lead research and evaluation of new technology, products, specialized hardware and tools to optimize development and functionality of applications. Ensure team members complete project tasks as assigned, taking corrective action to keep projects on schedule.
• Provide support: support complex operational activities and recoveries. Analyze, compare and evaluate various courses of action and make decisions within scope of responsibilities. Provide off hours support as needed.
• Leadership: provide technical direction and mentoring to staff. Direct daily activities of, train, monitor and guide less experienced staff. Provide input to management on team member performance reviews and hire decisions. Contribute to professional development of team. Ensure team delivers excellent customer service. Ensure continual improvement of and adherence to departmental standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Location /

Working Conditions:

• Normal office environment.
• Provide off hours support as needed.
• Ability to travel to various on- and off-campus locations.

• Typically sitting or standing at a desk.

• Office equipment.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education.
• Certifications /Professional Licenses:
  No specific certification/professional license is required for this position.
• Work Experience:
  
  Relevant Experience (5 Years)
• Skills:
  
  Not Applicable
• Driver’s License: A driver's license is not required for this position.

This role is the senior application developer and technical lead for a small IAM engineering team. You will own end-to-end delivery of custom applications and integrations that support identity and access management services, from requirements discovery and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.

You will build and maintain web applications and APIs using modern .NET (ASP.NET Core) and work with SQL Server-based data access patterns (including stored procedures where applicable). The role includes maintaining and enhancing select legacy .NET applications as needed, while identifying practical opportunities to modernize components over time.

A key part of the position is integrating IAM solutions with enterprise systems and vendor platforms, applying secure design and secure coding practices, and supporting authentication and authorization needs using modern standards (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC and SSO patterns). You will troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes.

You will use Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Enterprise, and YAML-based CI/CD pipelines to automate builds and deployments, manage configuration and secrets through approved mechanisms, and contribute to operational excellence through structured logging, diagnostics, documentation, and runbooks. As the technical lead, you will mentor a second developer through code reviews, standards, and day-to-day guidance, and partner closely with IAM leadership, engineers, and stakeholders to plan, estimate, prioritize, and deliver work with clear…