Applications Specialist, Research Administration (Galveston)

Minimum Qualifications: 
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and five years related experience.

Job Summary: 
This position is responsible for providing top-level technical expertise in one or more highly specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming. Responsible for providing technical guidance, consulting, advice and support on application of technologies to improve vital business processes or eliminates extraneous ones, as well as support implementation and maintenance of institutional information systems.

Job Duties:

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives. 
• Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written. 
• Independently solves highly complex technical issues. 
• May be responsible for multiple phases of a project. 
• Demonstrates highly technical and specialized systems knowledge to include programming, analyzing, and understanding systems to enhance and correct problems. 
• Understands and has experience with complete system life cycles from the initial planning through the final go-live stage, including the later stages of enhancements and additions. 
• Advise customers on feasibility of systems. 
• Applies advanced analysis and documentation skills for system investigation. 
• Serves as a mentor to provide direction and technical leadership to staff. 
• Focuses on functionality and integration of entire systems. 
• Effectively applies awareness and understanding of institution, department and customer mission and goals to resolve issues and focus on process improvement at the institutional and departmental level. 
• Takes initiative to learn and apply new technology. 
• Interacts with executive sponsor and provides status updates to IS leadership. 
• Serves as liaison with vendors and/or business partners and their products and services.
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure. 
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Salary Range:
Commensurate with experience.