Senior Software Developer, Information Technology

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Posting Reason:

Replacement of a temporary position

Job Type:

Employee

Anticipated Duration in Months (for contracts and temporary assignments):

24

Job Family:

Application Development

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

IT, Faculty of Engineering

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

N/A

Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/01/08

Applications must be received
BEFORE (YYYY/MM/DD):

2026/01/19

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

Non-Union Grade NC8 - 35 hrs

Salary Range:

$94,214.00 - $About the Faculty of Engineering
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Position purpose:

The Senior Software Developer, is responsible for the overall analysis, design, development and user experience of all Engineering outreach systems, as well as for other software development projects. Manages medium to major projects and may be required to supervise the work of others. Is focused on meeting user needs and improving the efficiency of the Faculty’s outreach operations processes through the Engineering outreach web systems and software solutions.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

Analysis: Provides professional expertise and leads the analysis of client, business and functional requirements for projects of medium and large scope and assists in determining technical, operational and economic feasibility.

Architect: Provides leadership in the creation of technical designs and system specifications or plans in order to translate requirements into technical specification documents. Create complex, hardware-agnostic architecture for Engineering outreach systems and activities. Leverages the latest cloud technologies and best practices to provide resilient and scalable systems across all Faculty of Engineering software development initiatives.

Development and Testing: Develops and writes complex programs and oversees the work of others in developing effective program code, tests, debugs and performs integration tests to ensure correct functionality of software.

Operational management: Takes a leadership role in the area of user trends, technical trends, and metrics to improve the Engineering systems. Takes responsibility for any serious or unresolved issues through contacts with clients, manufacturers, other institutions, and IT personnel from another sector of the Faculty.

Usability Testing: Leads usability studies with key stakeholders. Analyzes these results to determine enhancements to the system’s design and user interfaces. Presents these enhancements to the stakeholders for approval.

Documentation and Process Development: Produces documentation touching all aspects of the design and architecture processes. Develops processes dictating the way systems should be constructed and deployed within the group. Documents, as needed, workarounds to account for idiosyncrasies in the development and deployment of modules. Produces a document library facilitating knowledge transfer between the other team members.

Deployment and Maintenance: Coordinates release process for new and upgraded software in alignment with established procedures and processes. Reviews and identifies the requirement to repair and maintains current systems and software to ensure they continue to perform in keeping with client expectations.

Project Management: Provides guidance and leadership to project teams and establishes project steps, milestones and timetables including analyzing and estimating feasibility, costs, time and compatibility with hardware and other programs in order to ensure completion within the…