Senior ERP Programmer

Job Summary:

The Senior ERP Programmer reports to the Chief Applications Officer and provides advanced level programming, integration, reporting, and application support for our Ellucian Colleague ERP/SIS and associated systems and technologies.

Essential Functions (Responsibilities):

• Develop and implement Colleague User Interface (UI) forms, batch processes, reports, subroutines, rules, and computed columns using Ellucian' Colleague Studio (Eclipse SDK) and Envision.

• Collaborate with application users, ERP team members, and vendors to troubleshoot and resolve issues, implement new features and functionality, and enhance processes.

• Organizing, testing, installing, and documenting ERP patches and updates.

• Identify opportunities to streamline current processes, deploy product enhancements, and proactively locate and resolve system data integrity issues.

• Develop and maintain detailed written technical specifications for developed solutions.

• Maintain updated knowledge by attending training, conferences, and staying up to date on technical documentation and bulletins.

• Assist with third party data integrations utilizing both Envision/SQL flat files and Ellucian Ethos and vendor APIs.

• Provide SQL support including writing T-SQL queries, views, stored procedures, etc.

• Provide design and implementation support for ERP security classes.

• Ensure that all programming, data exchanges, integrations, etc. are secure and in compliance with best practices and University data security standards.

• Other duties and responsibilities as required by the department.

Special Job Dimensions:

On campus office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. Work days and hours vary due to the nature of the University environment and the responsibilities of this position, with occasional evening and weekend work required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.Knowledge of data security best practices.

• Willingness and ability to successfully complete training for Ellucian Colleague Programming, Ellucian Colleague Application Administration, Ellucian Colleague Ethos/API Technologies, and Transact-SQL.

• The ability to work with application end users of various technical skill levels to troubleshoot and resolve issues, deploy new features and functionality, and improve business processes.

• Excellent time management skills and the ability to meet deadlines with minimal supervision.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a team environment with people of diverse backgrounds at a variety of administrative levels.

• Advanced skillset working with MSSQL queries, views, stored procedures, etc.

• Advanced programming experience with at least one programming language such as BASIC, Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript etc.

• Understanding of REST based APIs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Ellucian Colleague ERP including Colleague Studio, Envision, and Unidata/UniBasic.

• Experience programming and administering an ERP/SIS environment.

• Understanding of higher education business processes.

• Strong knowledge of web development technologies such as web API, JavaScript, HTML, XSL/XML, REST, SOAP, etc.

• Understanding of a wide variety of encryption technologies used to secure and transmit data.

Physical Demands

• Typing/Keyboarding: Proficiency