Mirth Software Engineer III

Job Title

This position will work across our service portfolio to provide support for existing websites using our campus-wide Web Hosting and central CMS services. This includes helping internal service teams and external campus partners with WordPress, Google Analytics (Universal and/orG4), and proficiency with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platforms and web hosting management tools and protocols (Plesk, GIT, SFTP, etc.)

Job Summary

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, and troubleshoots software and applications. Conducts system analysis and design, and provides technical leadership, training, and guidance to lower level staff to support information technology business operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Reviews application design specifications, codes new applications, and makes enhancements to existing applications
• Designs and implements test plans, and prepares systems test data
• Prepares program documentation and training requirements
• Develops, prepares, or modifies technical specifications for complex projects, system integrations, and upgrades
• Conducts systems analysis, reviews and interprets system requirements, and develops detailed system design specifications for system integration and upgrades
• Reviews application modules for quality assurance and checks compliance with application architecture standards
• Conducts analysis for the evaluation and selection of vendor software solutions and packages
• Leads sub-functional team for application development or enhancement
• Contributes to the development of data structure and systems performance strategies
• Trains and provides technical guidance to lower level staff

Unique Responsibilities

• Manage WordPress sites for both internal and external teams including regular maintenance, upgrades and feature enhancements.
• Engage with hosting platforms as it pertains to WordPress website development and hosting.

Required Qualifications - (5 max)

• Extensive professional experience developing websites on WordPress, including
• demonstrated experience developing child themes and plugins
• Knowledge of best practices and use of vendor plugins for WordPress
• Demonstrated experience with MySQL as it is connected to WordPress websites
• Experience working with Web Hosting Control Panels (Plesk/cPanel), GIT (version control systems), Secure FTP, etc.