| Company: | Educational Computer Systems, Inc.
Coraopolis, PA |
| Job Location: |
Coraopolis - Allegheny County
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| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Department: | Application Development |
| Salary Range: | Base Salary Commensurate with experience |
| Benefits: | Comprehensive Benefit & 401K Package |
Description: |
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ECSI is the nations leading student loan management and higher education business solutions provider to more than 1300 colleges and universities across the country.
Having serviced more than 7 million loans throughout its history, the company offers the most complete and comprehensive solutions, which include: Student Loan Billing Services, Tuition Payment Plans, Refund Management, Tax Form Processing, eCommerce and Delinquent Receivable Management Services.
Today, the company continues to grow in its current markets, leveraging its technology enabled services platform and dominant market position. ECSI has taken a strong leadership position and broken out of the competitive pack as the nationally recognized market leader. This has had a dramatic impact on the business, as the rate of sales is accelerating at the same time operational efficiencies are resulting.
ECSIs service levels continue to improve, its rate of automated processes such as electronic bill presentment and payment have further improved net profits. Campus based products provide 15 year loan agreements with individual borrowers. This has created tremendous visibility allowing the company to invest in its technology platform and in expanding its product offering.
Position Summary:
The role of the programmer is to engage in a variety of analytical and programming assignments that provide for the development, enhancement, and maintenance of application programs, application systems, and operating systems software within our client server and web environments. This includes the testing, implementing and documenting of the developed code in the quality manner required for Production. |
Duties: |
Participate in the analysis effort to derive system requirements to meet business objectives as defined by customers
Develops and prepares documents for the design of solutions that meet customer, system and security requirements
Develop code in accordance with the design to meet customer requirements
Conduct unit testing of application code to ensure it produces the intended results
Conduct system integration testing of application code to ensure it produces the intended results and to ensure the changes do not adversely impact the intended results of the overall application system
Conduct system performance testing to ensure the implementation of code changes does not adversely impact the overall performance of the application system
Creates program builds to implement new programs and program changes into the Production environment
Writes documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, and corrections for future reference.
Writes documentation for Operations to describe installation and operating procedures.
Assists customers to solve operating problems by recreating steps taken by the customer to identify root cause and to develop program fixes to correct errors
Develops time estimates for systems development and upgrades to existing systems
Takes opportunity to keep current with new technology trends and seeks education necessary to learn and apply new skills
Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of their assignments
Participates in post mortems and create recommendations to eliminate future application errors
Complies with and helps to enforce standard policies and procedures
Accomplishes all tasks as appropriate
All other duties as assigned
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Qualifications: |
Experience, Education and Licensure
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent or four to ten years related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Microsoft Windows environment, HTML, Java Script
C# Programming Language, MVC3 framework, Microsoft Reporting Services, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server
Experience with the following: BizTalk, Rules Engine, WorkFlow
Language Skills
Ability to read, analyze, and interprets common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents
Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format
Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups and/or boards of directors
**ECSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer** |
