About the position
If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: Grade: Management Technical 714 Pay Range: $148,100.00 - $244,400.00.
Responsibilities
- Meets business needs by managing the activities of developers consistently delivering quality solutions on-time, within budget, and scope.
- Work with internal customers to gather business processes and project requirements.
- Actively drives the development life cycle from requirements analysis, feasibility estimates, design, code, documentation, testing, implementation, and support.
- Developing project plans, resource planning, scheduling, and managing development timelines.
- Building and managing multi-disciplined software teams and overseeing the development processes using industry best practices.
- Responsible for design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring the software development team.
- Support a change management process to manage software releases, application patching and changes to production configurations.
- Manage multiple tasks and responsibilities in high-pressure environments; excelling at pinpointing and resolving problems in early project stages to avoid cost/time expenses.
- Oversight and management of department expenses and budget planning.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent.
- 5+ years of Enterprise level Java Application development with experience both as a hands-on programmer and software development manager.
- Requires broad management knowledge to lead the department.
- Generally, has advanced level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the University.
Nice-to-haves
- Master of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
- Other Technical Experience That Would be a Plus: Flutter, React, Angular, Android, iOS, Java and Python, Jira, IDM / OSSO, Student Information Systems, CRM systems, Document Management systems, Application Integration with legacy systems.
Benefits
- Bonuses
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.
