Job Summary

Reporting to the Information Management Systems and Services (IMSS) Associate Director of Financial Systems, the Assistant Applications Developer, Testing and Systems Analyst will be part of a small team assigned to work with the Development and Institute Relations (DIR) Advancement Information Services (AIS) department. Together, the IMSS and AIS teams support DIR to optimize their use of the Ellucian Advance, Michelangelo Pro, iModules, Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE), and other systems in the fundraising domain.

Job Duties

• Designs, codes. analyzes and debugs application blocks required to implement moderately complex application functions
• Coordinates the integration of new algorithms and models into applications and software systems
• Participates in the deployment and maintenance of software systems
• Participates in test plan development; develops unit tests; participates in testing of software components; evaluates unit test results
• Documents software products; may be involved with user training plan development
• Analyzes business and user needs and requirements, and assists in integrating software systems to achieve solutions
• Works with existing tools and methods to find and resolve problems
• May collaborate with researchers, scientists, research groups, software vendors and/or their technical support to validate testing results and system solutions
• May report to team lead and/or project manager on progress of testing

Technical Knowledge

• Extensive understanding and application of principles, theories, concepts and techniques of a field of knowledge
• Has broad knowledge of applicable Institute policies and procedures and government regulations

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with at least 1 year of related experience
• Ability to interact with customers about information technology in language they would understand
• Collaborative work style, flexible attitude, ability to adapt gracefully to changes in priorities, assignments and personnel
• Possess excellent problem solving skills, intellectual curiosity, and attitude supportive of customer needs
• Propensity to continuously seek to improve productivity, quality and service and to search for ways to improve performance of IT functions
• Experience with documentation/analysis of business processes and/or functional requirements
• Experience with technical documentation
• Experience with ERP systems, fundraising systems, customer relations management, business intelligence systems, and/or other types of business information systems
• Experience working with relational database technologies and SQL
• Experience with data analysis techniques
• Some knowledge of quality assurance testing functions
• Good verbal and written communication skills
•  Relevant project management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Oracle database and PL/SQL highly preferred
• Experience working with a fundraising system, particularly, the Ellucian Advance fundraising system highly preferred
• Experience working in a non-profit or higher education environment
• Ability to promote the use of information technology to improve business processes
• Ability to integrate services into the Caltech administrative IT ecosystem

Required Documents

• Resume