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Academic Services

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £44,414 to £52,841 with potential progression once in post to £59,450

Grade 8

Full Time / Permanent

Closing date: 28th July 2023

Background

The University of Birmingham is a global institution working within a diverse and vibrant City, offering an inspiring education to our students, and undertaking critically important research. We are a place of open, critical thinking, and the creation, sharing and dissemination of knowledge. Professional Services put students at the heart of all they do and enable an exceptional educational experience. They provide outstanding support to our researchers and help the University to grow its influence regionally, nationally, and globally. They ensure the University’s resources are used wisely, manage and improve the infrastructure which sits at the heart of the institution, and support decisions to be made quickly and based on sound evidence. Our Birmingham Professional programme operates across the University, supporting colleagues to network and collaborate, offering opportunities to learn and develop, contributing to the delivery of the University’s objectives, and helping everyone to understand the broader context within which we work.

Role Summary

StARS (Student Administration Refresh and Simplification) is a University-wide programme to simplify, standardise and improve our student administration services, enabled by a replacement and upgrade of our student record system. Its vision is to deliver a better experience for students, academics and Professional Services staff; and enables a fundamental shift towards a more flexible set of capabilities and services that are fit for the future.

StARS programme is looking to recruit a Lead Developer to join the Programme’s Team. As a senior member of this team, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and support of Azure Integration Service (AIS) integration services.

Experience of working with other student record systems is also desirable. We are looking for a driven, team player who is continually learning and comfortable providing technical leadership and mentoring to other developers in the team.

Day to day you will be working within a programme technical team. You will also work closely with the other IT Services teams and stakeholders across the institution to deliver new features and services as well as supporting the day-to-day operations of student administration.

Main Duties

• Develop tactical and strategically significant digital solutions utilising multiple technologies.
• Lead the development of integrations on the AIS platform in line with specified requirements and standards.
• Lead the support and enhancement of AIS integrations.
• Lead the use of source control.
• Lead on the use of automation to enhance delivery processes.
• Lead the use of Agile Scrum techniques to develop integrations.
• Collaborate with team to share knowledge of AIS.
• Collaborate with lead developers from other teams to share knowledge.
• Collaborate with non-technical colleagues from the wider University.
• Keep abreast of technological practices and trends to continuously improve ways of working.
• Ensure that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
• Any other duties as required by line manager and commensurate with the grade of the post.
• Actively manages equality, diversity and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation and actively challenging unacceptable behaviour.
• Supports the University’s sustainability agenda through resource efficient working.
• Any other duties commensurate with the grade.

Person Specification or Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

Education and Training

Essential:

• University degree or equivalent
• Evidence of Continual Professional Development

Desirable:

• Project Management
• Training

Relevant Experience

Essential:

Proven experience of systems development lifecycle including requirements capture, analysis, design, development, testing and
user documentation

Solid understanding of IT project management and planning including milestones, critical paths and change management

Substantial experience, as part of a team, of developing, maintaining, configuring and deploying IT applications on a wide variety of platforms, operating systems and computer technologies

Experience of C# development.

Experience using source control, in particular Git.

Experience writing and applying automated tests.

Experience of using Terraform.

Experience creating and maintain Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration pipelines.

Experience of developing databases and stored procedures on Microsoft SQL Server.

Experience of developing REST APIs.

Desirable:

A good awareness of the issues facing UK higher education and how they affect university support

services

A good understanding of the learning, teaching, business and research needs of staff and students in higher education

ITIL awareness and

Practice

Meaningful and relevant experience of software development on Ellucian Banner and Ethos

Relevant Skills/Aptitudes:

A customer-orientated approach to service provision

Awareness of departmental and institutional relationships and an ability to work across teams and activities

An appropriate manner in dealing with senior managers, staff, students, visitors, clients and other contacts

Good communications skills, interpersonal skills, negotiating skills, organisational skills, presentation skills

Practical IT skills, including a good working knowledge of Windows, common computer applications, Internet and digital information services

Analytical and systematic approach to problem-solving

Ability to work calmly and systematically in a busy environment, to prioritise work and to meet agreed deadlines

Informal enquiries can be made to Mary Li - [email protected]

Valuing excellence, sustaining investment

We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working .