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Req #: 248150

Department: COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Appointing Department Web Address: https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/computing

Posting Date: 07/29/2025

Closing Info:

Closes On 08/05/2025

Salary: $6,334 - $7,080 per month

Limited Recruitment: **Open to UW Employees only**

Shift: First Shift

Notes:

As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20250130-a11y.pdf)

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

The College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office is seeking to fill a Web Computing Specialist position within the newly developed CAS IT Apps and Development Team. The computing environment served by this position is complex along several dimensions and the successful candidate will collaborate broadly to thoughtfully blend central standards and guidelines with local expertise and requirements to create an environment that is stable and reliable and innovative. Equally important to the technical challenges is the ability to successfully interact with clients, enabling them to complete their mission at the University.

In collaboration with CAS IT Leadership, and under general guidance from the Manager of Apps and Development the primary focus of the position is to support the Statistics and CSSS departments web infrastructure. This exciting opportunity is for a Web Developer experienced with the Drupal CMS to manage multiple departmental web sites and internal web-based applications. A successful candidate will demonstrate a strong service-oriented approach, creativity, and energy to support the web development needs of our growing user base.

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining multiple departmental websites and web-based applications, including a graduate student applicant and tracking application, account management and billing application and other web-based applications in support of the operation of the department.

Delivering outstanding systems support. You will also be expected to proactively identify areas for improvement, drive projects, and successfully implement changes in the environment.

Participating in the planning and implementation of new applications and emerging technologies into the production environment, including coordinating and executing changes at the platform and application level.

Responsibility for planning and execution of tasks and projects with minimal supervision. Serve as backup to the other IT staff on the team during vacations and absences.

Flexibility to perform occasional work outside of normal business hours/days (quarterly maintenance window, critical infrastructure downtime).

In collaboration with CAS IT Leadership, and under general guidance from the Assistant Director of Apps and Development the primary focus of the position is to support existing Apps and Develop new tools and systems to improve access to data and systems in a more strategic and scalable way

**About us:** CAS IT’s core mission is to provide critical IT support to the faculty and staff in the college while ensuring we are providing agile and creative solutions that will meet current and future needs. We support Research, Outreach and Education, working to facilitate the complete mission of the College. We are an agile and collaborative team working to continually make technology less cumbersome for our customers while ensuring our solutions are secure, scalable, and in service of the College and UW’s mission of teaching and research.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** Web Developer

+ Maintain a new department website using a Drupal Framework.

+ Maintain a web-based application to review and track graduate student applications.

+ Monitor and respond to alerts of service outages with a goal of minimizing downtime and ensuring system stability.

+ Perform performance monitoring and assessment resource utilization to ensure peak potential of the computing infrastructure

+ Develop and design new features for existing websites.

+ Revise user interface and website features based on user feedback.

+ Conduct thorough testing of user interfaces in multiple platforms to ensure all designs are rendered correctly, and systems function properly.

+ Validate the technical feasibility of website designs while applying best practices in designing and testing for accessibility.

+ Verify that websites comply with current operational procedures and UW policies, including security, privacy, and accessibility.

+ Integrate internal and third-party web tools and applications as needed.

+ Maintain thorough documentation of all programs and procedures.

+ Contribute to web strategy discussions, offer solutions, and perform other tasks related to our dynamic and collaborative approach to web development.

+ Ensure applications are scalable, secure, and meet institutional standards.

+ Integrate applications with existing systems such as:

+ Student Information Systems

+ Learning Management Systems (e.g., Canvas, Moodle)

+ Identity Management (e.g., LDAP, SSO, Shibboleth)

+ Library systems, HR, and Finance platforms

+ Work closely with academic departments, IT teams, and administrative offices.

+ Ensure applications comply with FERPA, HIPAA, and other relevant regulations.

+ Implement secure coding practices and conduct regular vulnerability assessments.

+ Develop tools for data collection, analysis, and reporting.Documentation/New technology research

+ Create user documentation and training materials.

+ Translate user requirements into technical specifications.

+ Maintain awareness of technology advances and collaborate on applying new approaches.

+ Other Duties as Assigned **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**

+ BS in information systems, web design, computer sciences or a related field and minimum of

+ Two+ years of web development and application support. **Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration** **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS**

+ Thorough knowledge of the jQuery API, DOM API, HTML and CSS and solid experience creating, maintaining and writing queries for relational databases such as MS-SQL and MySQL.

+ Development experience with Drupal, especially theming/front end development and site administration.

+ Demonstrated expertise in building web sites or web-based applications.

+ Outstanding oral and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively with a diverse range of users with varying technical abilities.

+ Strong organizational, task-management and prioritization skills.

+ Keep current with campus standards, technology developments and College guidelines to ensure that the highest standards of reliability and performance are met.

+ Demonstrated experience working with minimal supervision, both independently and in a collaborative team environment and within deadlines.

+ Demonstrated client service skills and the ability to work with personnel of various levels of technical background.

+ Excellent written and oral communications skills.

+ Demonstrated knowledge and experience with a variety of desktop and workgroup server computing environments.

+ Self-motivated, resourceful, and proactive.

+ Operationally minded with experience developing, implementing, and managing effective processes and systems.

+ Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

+ Ability to exercise independent judgement and creatively solve problems. **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Experience building fast and scalable RESTful APIs and experience designing scalable data models.

+ Experience with object-oriented JavaScript and BackboneJS, Ember or similar JavaScript framework.

+ Experience building sites in Drupal 10 or greater, with an emphasis on front-end development

+ Experience with Wordpress

+ Experience creating a user interface suitable for less technical content creators.

+ Experience integrating third-party libraries and APIs

+ Experience using Git with a command-line interface

+ Experience using a cloud-based hosting platform

+ Experience with Composer

+ Experience with CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries.

+ Knowledge of in-browser graphics such as CSS animations, WebGL, SVG animations, etc **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.

University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.