Application Developer

The Application Developer applies advanced software concepts and objectives to medium-to-large website and web application projects of broad scope and complexity, working in concert with business systems analysts, IT architects, the Director of Administration, departmental administrative staff and department managers and trainee administrators within ZSFG and across UCSF and DPH Enterprise Systems teams. These projects often involve challenges with sourcing data from systems of record, defining role-based access and views, applying accessible pattern libraries and design systems. The Application Developer will regularly resolve highly complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. The Application Developer select tools, methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria to obtain results, in concert with other developers in the community of practice and across the UC system. The Application Developer has a full understanding of industry practices of front-end and back-end development with content management systems and practical experience with multiple development technologies like HTML,CSS, .NET, C++, C#, SQL (and its variants), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Python all while ensuring accessibility and security. The Application Developer will be required to be a member of and contributor to the UCSF developer community, and will demonstrate best practices for DevOps, code review, secure coding, unit, and user acceptance testing, and relevant policies and procedures of a large academic enterprise.
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