Developer (Ctr for Media & Tech Solutions)
Johns Hopkins University
WSE’s Center for Media and Technology Solutions is seeking a Developer to serve as a hybrid technologist and strategic partner who helps design, build, and deploy AI-enabled applications that improve teaching, learning, and operations across the Whiting School of Engineering. Working side-by-side with technology solutions analysts, instructional technologists, and systems engineers, this role translates complex faculty and staff needs into secure, production-ready tools such as intelligent assistants, workflow automations, and data-informed dashboards that integrate with our learning, research, and business platforms.
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 & 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 & 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 & 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 HS Diploma/Graduation Equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Related classwork or internships with computer systems and applications preferred
Applications and skills that are required for the position
- Cloudflare Developer Platform experience.
- OpenAI API experience.
Competencies (Using the JHU Competency Framework)
JHU Competency - Expected Level of Contribution
- Pursues Excellence - Operational Contributor
- Flexibility and Readiness - Operational Contributor
- Creativity and Initiative - Operational Contributor
- Collaboration - Operational Contributor
- Decision Making and Reasoning - Operational Contributor
- Inclusion and Belonging - Operational Contributor
- Continuous Learning - Operational Contributor
Technical Skills
Expected Skills - Proficiency Level
- Agile Methodology - Awareness
- Code Review - Awareness
- Debugging - Developing
- JIRA - Awareness
- Microservices - Awareness
- Model View Controller - Awareness
- Product Life Cycle Management - Awareness
- Restful API - Awareness
- Secure Coding - Developing
- Software Design Patterns - Developing
- Software Development Life Cycle - Developing
- Unit Testing - Awareness
The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.
Classified Title: Developer
Role/Level/Range: ATO 40/E/03/OG
Starting Salary Range: $24.25 - $42.50 HRLY (Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Casual / On Call
Schedule: M-F, 20 hrs wkly
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus
Department name: Ctr for Media & Tech Solutions
Personnel area: Whiting School of Engineering