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Job Description

The University of Washington is one of the world’s preeminent public universities in impact and funding. Since 1972, the UW has continued to receive more externally sponsored research funding than any other U.S. public university and we are one of the few universities in the U.S. with total research funding nearing two billion. That funding drives crucial, ground-breaking research that transforms lives around the globe. In the Office of Research at UW, we take pride in creating an outstanding climate of support for UW researchers that helps them compete and succeed. However, research administration and regulation is growing in complexity by the day.

The UW** **_Office of Research_** **has an outstanding opportunity open for a** **_Temporary_** **.Net Engineer.

The .Net Engineer will provide systems design, development, programming, implementation, consultation, maintenance and support for projects related to the electronic grants management system used by the faculty, staff and grant administrators at the University of Washington to procure and administer research grants and contracts (SAGE). This position is essential for the update, remediation, and improvements of research compliance components around financial interest disclosure, significant financial interest, and continued alignment of outbound integrations with the UW’s enterprise resource management tool, Workday. This role is pivotal to meeting important internal and external deadlines. Other essential functions include providing technical leadership and expertise for systems development for colleagues and providing expert consultation to clients and systems managers. This position directly supports the research mission of the University.

The Office of Research’s constituency is the entire University, including UW branch campuses, medical centers, 277 research centers, and University partners. Across the breadth of the University, there are many intersections with research compliance. This position contributes technical systems design and development expertise within a diverse team environment that includes participants from a broad range of campus and administrative units including UW-IT and UW Medicine ITS. Successful candidates must interface productively with business analysts, project managers and other application and infrastructure engineers.

Technical scope requires deep systems knowledge and an ability to quickly learn and understand the policies, functional processes, and procedures of the University. Software complexity ranges from operating system internals to web-based services and applications, database and other persistence mechanisms and system integrations between differing technologies. The scope of tasks performed span all project phases including design, development, testing, integrating, deploying and support.

This position supports the Office of Research mission to provide systems development, technical expertise and consultation to the University; prepare requirements definitions for client departments; design and implement appropriate solutions; identify and solve operational problems relating to networks, web services, integrations with diverse systems and end-user specific tools. This position will also identify and evaluate existing and emerging technologies and their applicability to UW needs. Timely delivery of efficient means of systems to submit and manage research grants and awards will uphold the UW position as a top research institution.

Responsibilities:

Systems Design and Development 70%

• Design, develop, and implement new features alongside modernizing existing code utilizing modern technologies and following best practices

• Sustain electronic research administration systems outbound integration with UW enterprise resource planning system (Workday)

• Write, clean, readable, testable and maintainable code

• Collaborate with other application and infrastructure engineers on creating well integrated, performant back-end solutions

• Ensure applications are stable, secure, and sustainable while meeting the varied needs of University research

• Develop technical estimates

• Manage workload and negotiate priorities to achieve milestones

• Participate in and perform peer code reviews

• Discover and implement opportunities for automation and instrumentation

• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to take on broader responsibilities when necessary

• Contribute in an agile scrum team

• Participate in production support and operations

• Display great curiosity and willingness to question

Planning and Consultation 20%

• Solve problems as a team with Business Analysts, QA, internal and external integration software groups

• Participate in team meetings, documentation, and communicate technical concepts and designs

Administrative Duties 10%

• Attend recurring organization meetings and one-on-ones with a supervisor

• Engage in unplanned communications

• Participate in recurring HR Processes as needed

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

• Experience may substitute for education requirement

• 4 years hands-on experience as an individual contributor to software application design, implementation, maintenance, and operation in accordance with industry standards and security best practices using: C#, .NET framework (including Entity Framework); ASP.Net MVC; SQL Server and document-oriented databases, including database schema design and writing stored procedures/functions; RESTful APIs; message-queue architectures; Azure DevOps Server; CI/CD pipelines in for Git repositories, and source controlling artifacts via Git, in alignment with common branching strategies and workflows

• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively in both oral and written mediums with individuals and groups in order to socialize information and knowledge with a diverse group of colleagues

• Demonstrated ease in technical and non-technical review as both reviewer and reviewee in order to facilitate collaboration group activities such as change control and pull request review.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and with a team

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Experience with:

• Workday suite of applications/modules including: Workday data model, security, integrations and data load capabilities

• 1 year working on application development using AWS services (with at least 3 of the following AWS services: ECS, ALB, S3, Cloudformation templates, Cloudwatch, Lambdas, RDS, Secrets manager, ECR, Codeartifact)

• Object, data, metadata, process, and/or information modeling

• Application performance monitoring and management

• OpenAPI Specification (Swagger)

• Automated testing

• Postman API Platform

• Team Foundation Version Control

• Common content exchange formats, including Markdown, YAML, and JSON

• Secure web application development practices

• Lean/Agile software development methodologies

• Experience in higher education and/or research administration

This position:

• Contributes in a collaborative teamwork environment

• Collaboration across diverse backgrounds, personalities, and disciplines is done in a shared space working environment through scheduled and ad hoc meetings focused on problem solving

• May be required to work in a hybrid environment, using remote and on-site workplaces

• While normally has a Monday-Friday day shift, will occasionally have responsibilities or emergent situations where work outside of standard business hours is required to ensure software deployments go smoothly, to respond to incidents, and/or to meet critical deadlines

• May be required to be on call

• Is an essential position and is required to report to work when UW suspends operations when needed.

Compensation, Benefits and Position Details

Pay Range Minimum:

$1,464,000.00 annual

Pay Range Maximum:

$1,524,000.00 annual

Other Compensation:

-

Benefits:

For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-temporary-per-diem-and-less-than-half-time/

Shift:

First Shift (United States of America)

Temporary or Regular?

This is a temporary position

FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):

100.00%

Union/Bargaining Unit:

Not Applicable

About the UW

Working at the University of Washington provides a unique opportunity to change lives – on our campuses, in our state and around the world.

UW employees bring their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. In return, they enjoy outstanding benefits, opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work in an environment known for its diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

Our Commitment

The University of Washington is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (https://hr.uw.edu/eoaa/) . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or [email protected] .

Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under Washington state law (https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28B.112.080) .

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.