Job Profile:
Applications Developer 4
Job Family:
IT Applications
Time Type:
Full time
Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Job Profile Summary:
Designs, develops, and troubleshoots complex software and applications in support of establishing a sustainable institutional technological infrastructure. This individual also conducts non-routine system analysis, contributes to strategy development, and may provide training.
Job Description:
Are you an experienced software engineer who excels at creating and enhancing technology solutions for a variety of learner needs? Do you enjoy working in collaborative, mission-driven, innovative environments? Then apply today for this Software Engineer Lead opportunity!
ASU EdPlus is a dynamic unit of Arizona State University focused on the design and scalable delivery of digital teaching and learning models to increase student success and reduce barriers to achievement in higher education. We advance the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the local, national, and international communities served by ASU.
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We are seeking a motivated, self-directed Software Engineer Lead to join our Solutions Engineering team. Every day you will make a difference in the lives of others by helping solve some of the most complex challenges facing transfer learners in higher education.
You will lead the design and development of digital solutions that simplify the transfer experience, from transcript ingestion and course-equivalency evaluation to articulation, review, and learner-facing reporting. These solutions will use artificial intelligence, automation, and modern cloud technologies to reduce friction, improve transparency, and shorten a learner’s path to completing a degree.
This role extends beyond traditional software development. You will provide technical direction, guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and help advance modern engineering practices across the organization, including the responsible use of AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows.
The EdPlus Solutions Engineering team creates and enhances technology solutions for a variety of learner challenges. Working collaboratively across disciplines, the team develops thoughtful, forward-looking experiences that support the strategies and goals of ASU and EdPlus.
Essential Duties:
Design, develop, and support secure, scalable digital services that improve the experience and outcomes of transfer learners.
Provide technical leadership across backend services, integration layers, asynchronous processing systems, and learner- and administrator-facing web applications.
Architect end-to-end transfer workflows, including document ingestion and storage, AI-assisted extraction, queued processing, equivalency evaluation, articulation-system integration, human review, reporting, and document generation.
Own and evolve HTTP and event-driven contracts between services and client applications, including API versioning, payload design, compatibility, and coordinated delivery across repositories.
Design durable integrations with University platforms and third-party services, accounting for availability, data consistency, retries, idempotency, auditability, and operational failure modes.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, architects, institutional stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate learner needs and organizational goals into effective technical solutions; lead technical planning and architectural discussions to clarify scope, integrations, risks, dependencies, and implementation…