The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) is seeking to develop and maintain high-quality front-end web-based applications for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), an online assessment system aligned with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The goal is to provide tools for educators to improve teaching and learning, ensuring accessibility and usability for all students, regardless of disability, language, or subgroup.
Requirements
- Knowledge of: OAuth2/OpenID, SAML, AD, SSO, Amazon RDS, RedShift, Thymeleaf, Angular, and AWS tasks.
- Intermediate knowledge of secure software development.
- Demonstrated ability to program in at least one of the following: Angular, TypeScript, CSS.
- Demonstrated ability to understand market and educational requirements, including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements, that should inform accessibility needs within the User Interface (UI).
- Demonstrated ability with advising, applying, and troubleshooting user interface design to front-end applications.
- Demonstrated ability to understand functional needs and how systems can support those needs.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
Responsibilities
- Plans, designs, develops, modifies, debugs, deploys, and evaluates complex front-end software for functional areas.
- Analyzes existing front-end applications or works to formulate logic for new web-based systems.
- Negotiates, develops, and executes moderately complex Quality Assurance test plans.
- Develops conversion and system implementation plans.
- Performs performance and integration testing and builds interfaces for a variety of internal and external constituents. Monitors and employs source code control techniques and configuration management.
- Supports general operations across the portfolio.
- Completes internal and external client modifications to the required specifications.
Other
- Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
- Experience with planning for deployment and creation of feedback mechanisms.
- Experience ensuring that organizational practices, services, and behaviors support and promote collaboration among staff.
- Demonstrated customer service orientation skills.
- Demonstrated effective verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
