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Senior Application Developer at Georgia Tech

The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) seeks a highly proficient applicant to develop information technology applications including websites, databases, mashups and other web-based solutions. For additional information about EI2 see: http://www.innovate.gatech.edu/. The position will be located in the Technology Square area on 5th Street in Midtown Atlanta and will initially begin as a temporary assignment with the potential to become full-time benefits eligible after a six month performance review. Benefits are not associated with the initial temporary status; however, beginning temporary status will include additional compensation. Upon attaining permanent status, Georgia Tech offers exceptional benefits including vacation and sick time accrual, one week of vacation during the Christmas and New Year holidays, choice between two pension plans, several supplemental retirement savings plans, medical/dental coverage, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, and other employee benefits. For an overview of Georgia Tech benefits, see OHR site: http://www.ohr.gatech.edu (navigate to benefits).

The hours for position are Monday-Friday 8am-5pm with travel.

Selection process will include pre-employment background screening and education verification.

Duties: Provide technical leadership across the organization from strategic decision making to project planning. Maintain, support, and upgrade the organizations portfolio of software applications through designing and implementing (and/or evaluating & selecting) information systems that support core organizational functions and new strategic initiatives (and assure their high availability throughout EII). Promote new emerging technologies both within EII and within customer and partner communities. Function as both an internal and external consultant by tracking the latest technology trends and determining their applicability towards the advancement of both the organization and EII external customer goals and objectives. Incumbent must be able to promote and gain organizational commitment for new IT systems.

Education: Bachelors Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience required. MS/MBA is preferred.

Experience: Six to ten years experience in IT application development demonstrated by code samples and actual websites (either screen shots or live sites), eight to ten years experience preferred.

Required Skills and Responsibilities

Six to ten years experience in or a combination of:

  • Systems analysis and design/software development and programming (prefer candidates with prior exposure to PHP; asp.net; javascript; and experience in web design using Wordpress)
  • Database design (prefer candidates with MS SQL Server and MySQL)
  • Web development, IT training development, end user training, operating system maintenance, and troubleshooting (Linux and Windows operating systems experience preferred)
  • Systems integration experience using Intuit Quickbase development (preferred) or other cloud database application development.Additional preferred experience includes Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flex, Flash, Google Docs, and experience creating mashups using the Google Maps API.
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    Posted October 9th, 2009, 2:43 pm EDT by stephenfleming  

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