National Heritage Academies (NHA) is searching for an Application Developer to join our IT Systems team to lead development efforts for NHA’s proprietary Student Information System. The ideal candidate for this position will have 7+ years of experience with Microsoft .net development technologies with proven success designing, developing and integrating enterprise level applications.
The selected individual will report directly to our IT Systems Manager and will work out of our Service Center which is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This person will be solution focused, quality driven and will contribute on a team of talented and dedicated individuals.
- You’ll Make An Impact: Working as a professional at the Service Center grants you the opportunity to become part of a team focused on better educating more children and ensuring that each of the students in NHA classrooms are challenged to achieve. This is an opportunity to use your professional talents for the betterment of almost 50,000 students across the United States.
- An Experienced Team: More than 230 experienced and talented professionals work at the Service Center, which is led by business professionals and top caliber educators with the skills and resources needed to support our schools to ensure high rates of student achievement. Service Center departments include: Accounting, Recruitment, HR, Marketing, Legal and Compliance, IT, Curriculum and Assessment and others. Working with specialist professionals offers great opportunity for collaboration and the development of unique solutions to common problems in education and business.
Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Experience leading small groups of developers working on similar tasks and objectives
- Ability to provide high level and detailed estimates for functional software components
- Ability to provide high level and detailed functional and technical documentation for functional software components
- Ability to execute on both functional and/or technical specifications for core and/or feature specific tasks
- Perform complex troubleshooting and software defect resolution in a software release process
- Collaborate with team to research, select and implement software development tools, controls, techniques and technologies
- Collaborate on technical direction on architectural decisions and strategies with software architects