Developer (Bayview Pediatrics)

The School of Medicine, Pediatric Center for Child & Community Health Research is seeking a Developer to support the creation, implementation, maintenance, performance, production support and documentation of various departmental and enterprise-wide application systems. This includes but is not limited to the installation, modification, and testing of new and/or upgraded applications (packages or home grown), operating systems, file structures, hardware, communication devices, and productivity tools. Assist with database maintenance and application system code support.

Job Scope/Complexity

Demonstrate a basic understanding of project life cycle and support sections of life cycle. Under direct supervision, assist with full life-cycle of small and/or parts of a large project. Once priorities are set, perform tasks under direct supervision with regular process updates. Examples can easily be found in existing code, methods or online. Typically, concepts used are simple and standard.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• The responsibilities listed below are typical examples of the work performed by this position.
• Not all duties assigned to this position are included, nor is it expected that everyone in this position will be assigned every job responsibility.
  
  

Analysis and Requirements Gathering

• Under direct supervision support business/clinical/education problems by meeting with clients and more Sr. IT colleagues to observe and understand current processes and the issues related to those processes. Contribute to written documentation of findings to share with the client and other IT colleagues.
• Review system requirements by meeting with clients and Sr. IT colleagues and researching existing technology to understand the business requirements for new applications.
  
  

Design and Development

• Contribute to the development of detailed tasks by analyzing project scope and milestones for projects in order to ensure product is delivered in a timely fashion according to software lifecycle standards.
• Contribute to functional/technical specifications by reviewing the provided system requirements, assist with putting them into functional and technical descriptions for use by programmers and business analysts to develop technical solutions.
• Assist with the development/change of data input, files/database structures, data transformation, algorithms, and data output by using appropriate computer language/tools to provide technical solution for application development tasks.
• Assist with documentation of code and associated processes by adhering to development methodologies, adding code comments and appropriate documentation to various knowledge-based system(s) to simplify code maintenance and to improve the support.
  
  

Testing & Documentation

• Assist with the creation and documentation of test scenarios using the appropriate testing tools to validate and verify application functionality.
• Assist with the testing of all changes by using the appropriate test scenarios to ensure all delivered solutions work as expected and errors are handled in a meaningful way.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of documentation by writing audience-appropriate materials to serve as technical and/or end-user references.
  
  

Implementation and Maintenance

• Assist with the Implementation of changes by adhering to the change management policies and procedures for any given project to communicate to all parties the nature, significance, and risk factors of the solution.
• Assist in the monitoring of changes and resolution of problems by responding to problems as they occur, by reviewing all processing and output of the newly implemented solution, and by proactively ensuring the solution works successfully to satisfy the customer requirements and to provide a smooth transition to the new solution.
• Provide support by triaging and resolving issues to ensure prompt, effective service.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• No prior professional experience required.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with REDCap databases and clinical research datasets.
• Familiarity with clinical research, epidemiologic research, and/or population health research methodologies.
• Experience with statistical software such as STATA, SAS, Python, and/or R
  
  

Classified Title: Developer

Job Posting Title: Developer

Role/Level/Range: ATO 40/E/03/OG

Starting Salary Range: Min $50,440- Max $88,400. Targeted $69,472 (Commensurate w/exp.)

Employee group: Full Time

Schedule: M-F; 8:30 to 5:00

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Location: Remote

Department name: Bayview Pediatrics

Personnel area: School of Medicine