About City of Hope
City of Hope's mission is to deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. Founded in 1913, City of Hope has grown into one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S. and one of the leading research centers for diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope research has been the basis for numerous breakthrough cancer medicines, as well as human synthetic insulin and monoclonal antibodies. With an independent, National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center at its core, City of Hope brings a uniquely integrated model to patients spanning cancer care, research and development, academics and training, and innovation initiatives. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. City of Hope’s affiliated family of organizations includes Translational Genomics Research Institute and AccessHopeTM. For more information about City of Hope, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.

City of Hope’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We believe diversity, equity and inclusion is key in serving our mission to provide compassionate patient care, drive innovative discovery, and advance vital education focused on eliminating cancer and diabetes in all of our communities. Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion ensures we bring the full range of skills, perspectives, cultural backgrounds and experiences to our work -- and that our teams align with the people we serve in order to build trust and understanding. We are dedicated to fostering a community that embraces diversity - in ideas, backgrounds and perspectives; this is reflected in our work and represented in our people.

Position Summary
The Senior Application Developer specializes in the design and architecture of complex applications and extremely proficient in application integration. The position has the ability to convert abstract concepts into viable solutions using existing applications as well as new technology techniques and tools. The Senior Application Developer is focused nearly exclusively on extremely complex “enterprise” projects, and providing support as needed. The position has considerable expertise in a variety of technologies, including industry tools not currently being used at City of Hope. The position has the ability to architect systems end-to-end (e.g. server to client), understands how different systems operate, their possible integration points and knows how to connect them. The Senior Application Developer has a broad knowledge of various development technologies and methodologies and when to best use them. The position provides technical application development and architecture mentorship to non-senior developers on the team.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Outstanding communication skills (written and verbal) with various stakeholders (including customers, ITS personnel, vendors, etc.).
• Expertise in architecting, developing, implementing, and maintaining applications and services both internal and external to COH.
• Develop, maintain, and implement custom systems and applications.
• Communicate both technical and business aspects of development projects to users and analysts.
• Document applications architecture and technical specifications, including integration with enterprise applications.
• Keep current with industry standard technologies and development methods necessary to build enterprise grade, scalable systems.
• Develop, adapt and promote application development standards including code management strategies, coding standards and tooling. Ensure alignment of development practice with IT Enterprise Architecture.
• Mentor and train other developers.
• Exceptional troubleshooting abilities. Act as a technical resource for the team to resolve complex problems.
• Follows department standards in change, release, incident, problem, project, and crisis management.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
  

Basic education, experience and skills required for consideration:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Sciences/Engineering or experience may substitute for minimum education requirements
• 5 years of demonstrated expert application development/testing experience using Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) languages
• 5 years demonstrated experience and expert knowledge applying large scale software development lifecycle
• 5 or more years of application architecture experience in information technology environment

Preferred education experience and skills:

• Code management, relational database principles, system design, software design patterns, OOP principles, service architecture, API management, application development on cloud platform, mobile development, application security, IT services management

Additional Information:
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.

As a condition of employment, City of Hope requires staff to comply with all state and federal vaccination mandates.

City of Hope is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
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