Job Description

Come Grow with Us

Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is a rapidly growing educational service company that has long been an industry leader in providing educational, operational and technological support services to the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still works closely with GCU to benefit thousands of students, families and the local inner-city community. We put people first, drive innovation, and do good in the community that we live and work in.

What you will do:

  • Assist in development and customization of .Net Applications which may involve SharePoint solutions: Web Part Development, Business Intelligence solutions, PerformancePint, SQL Server Reporting Services, Event Receivers, Microsoft CRM, Workflow, InfoPath Forms services, SharePoint Designer,

  • Metadata and Content Type Configuration, user interface development.

  •  Design, build and maintain efficient, resuable and reliable code for assigned projects.

  • Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of applications

  • Installation and configuration of assigned application environments

  • Ability to work with third party vendors/applications, and other industry tools as needed.

  • Able to interface and effectively integrate Microsoft Office product suite.

  • Confer with users and team members to develop, understand and update requirements for configuration and development of software.

  • Write and maintain programming documentation on subjects including code, API functionality, and software issue creation/resolution.

  • Maintain confidentiality with regard to information being processed, stored or accessed.

  • Maintain, support and troubleshoot Web applications hosted on a software as a service platform.

  • Identify opportunities for application scalability, sustainability & improvement

  • Evaluate customer or internally drive functionality change requests for technical feasibility and level of effort

  • Prepare database schema for review and deployment

  • Execute programming updates for application updates or enhancements per project.

  • Conduct application software testing, prototype review, and quality assurance for stage and production release and post release monitoring and follow up.

What you will have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (computer science, information technology, etc.) from a regionally accredited institution.

  • Ability to troubleshoot and investigate problems, bugs in application and maintain focus until resolved; understand when to escalate and seek help in ensuring application is sound and robust.

  • Ability to withstand sustained periods of concentrated focus on developing code

  • Ability to work as part of a team and actively contribute to success of entire team

  • Strong desire to learn new technologies; be adaptive to new tools

  • Basic technical knowledge of current software protocols, business platforms, middleware, internet standards, and database software.

  • Demonstrated ability to use and understand:

    • Internet Information Server, Component Services and Index Server, SQL Server (stored procedures constraints and triggers)

    • Visual Studio.NET using C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET

    • Active Server Pages (Classic ASP) using VBScript and ActiveX Data Objects, Visual Studio 6.0, XML, HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, ODBC and Microsoft Office

  • Knowledge of all basic Object Oriented Concept and programming

  • Experience with scripting (Python, Perl, or Bash)

  • SQL experience and basic understanding of relational databases

  • Understanding of TCP/IP networking

  • Experience with version control software

  • Experience with multiple architectures, particularly PowerPC or ARM, Linux

Why work at GCE:

  • Exceptional workplace benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, a 401K savings plan

  • Generous time off plan and 11 paid holidays

  • Paid time off to volunteer in the community or at GCU sponsored events

  • We also offer full-time employees, their spouses and dependent children an Education Tuition Discount Program

Application Instructions

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