Professional Assistant Enterprise - Office of Information Technology Services

Announcement is hereby made for a full-time, 12-month, Professional Assistant for an Enterprise Applications position in the Office of Information Technology Services located on the Ammerman Campus in Selden. Suffolk County Community College is an open admissions institution committed to serving a diverse student population in a variety of degree and career programs.

This is a Unit III position covered under the Faculty Association of Suffolk County Community College collective bargaining agreement with the college.

This position will report to the College Assistant Director of Enterprise Applications and will primarily support the analysis, development, integration, ongoing maintenance and operation of the college’s Administrative Information Systems comprised of database management systems;
Ellucian’s Banner ERP;
Slate CRM and numerous other custom applications and ancillary systems. This position is required to work with a team of professionals to support solutions both on-premises and on hosted environments.

The Professional Assistant is expected to be knowledgeable and proficient in the development of data structures and application solutions based upon detailed specifications and must possess an understanding of relational database systems. This position is responsible for conducting systems research and analysis, developing, testing and assisting in the implementation of application solutions in a heterogeneous environment. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to prioritize their workload with minimum supervision, have experience with object-oriented programming languages and demonstrate working knowledge of systems analysis and design methods.

• Develop, test and implement solutions based upon specifications to support the college’s student, employee, faculty and financial information systems.
• Support transactional systems and data integrity through the development and documentation of database structures, procedures, scripts, reports and processes.
• Stay current with technology related to the position and research new opportunities as they relate to the college technology landscape.
• Work with other team members to support programming standards and best practices as they relate to existing and emerging systems and technologies.
• Work with college resources, SUNY cohorts and third-party providers to provide IT solutions.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships through communication and interaction with college departments, groups and personnel for whom tasks and assignments are assigned.
• Provide periodic status updates to college administration and other stakeholders with regard to assigned projects, tasks and other designated responsibilities.

• An Associate’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• One year of technical work experience supporting an organizational Information Technology service, including components of system design; development; testing; implementation; end-user support; analysis; research and resolution.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Working knowledge of remote API services.
• Working knowledge with data transformation using file formats such as CSV, XML/XSLT, JSON.
• Experience with source control tools like Git or Maven.
• Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or CRM Systems.
• Experience with SQL and/or Reporting Tools for data analysis and reporting.
• Experience with data warehousing concepts and applications.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Proficiency in Microsoft SharePoint.