U240028 – Associate Director of Application and Web Development – University Advancement

Posting Category
Staff

Department
University
Advancement

Posting Number: U240028

Posting Link
https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/49576

Employer
U
B Foundation Activities

Position Summary

The Associate Director of Application and Web
Development plays a pivotal role within our Application Support team, focusing on driving the success of fundraising and engagement
initiatives within the Division of University Advancement. Central
to this role is the continual improvement and progression of our Salesforce-based Affinaquest Advancement RM system and web-based
technologies that directly engage constituents. This entails a commitment to innovation and collaborative partnerships with internal teams
and university stakeholders.

The Associate Director of Application and Web Development:

• Leads and oversees the
  development of complex solutions based on requirements from University Advancement leadership.
• Contributes to the design of the
  division’s overall digital and integration ecosystem.
• Translates high-level requirements into user stories and actionable items for
  implementation.
• Implements and supports integrations between Salesforce, legacy systems, and new platforms.
• Manages DevOps
  processes and release lifecycle, including scheduling, coordination, and management of vendor and internally developed
  releases.
• Develops and ensures consistent execution of release processes and procedures, leveraging available tools and services to
  facilitate deployment by internal and external resources into production.

The Associate Director leads the creation and
execution of tests for updates to ensure the acceptance criteria is met and existing functionality is not impacted, creation of seed data,
and completion of complex test automation. As a member of a highly skilled and evolving team, the Associate Director will have opportunities
to partake in skillset development to further their technical knowledge and capabilities and career development.

Outstanding
Benefits Package

Working at UBF comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards
including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and
academic pursuit – all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. Visit our UBF benefits website to learn about our benefit
packages.

Division of University Advancement
Building stronger connections with UB’s
nearly 300,000 alumni and donors worldwide is critical to the university’s goal: to situate UB among the nation’s top 25 public research
universities. UB alumni and friends are grateful and generous, supporting the largest, most ambitious fundraising campaign the university
has ever launched. Through Boldly Buffalo: The Campaign for UB, we seek to raise $1 billion. We invite you to join our University
Advancement team and be part of our historic efforts.

About The University at Buffalo
The University
at Buffalo (UB) #ubuffalo is one of America’s leading public research universities and a flagship of the State University of New York
system, recognized for our excellence and our impact. UB is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic
excellence. Our research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a
culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enables us to reach others every day. Visit our website to
learn more about the University at Buffalo.

University at Buffalo is
an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and
individuals with disabilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience working
  with:
  • PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
  • SQL and Oracle and/or relational databases reporting
  • Payment gateways
  • 3rd
    party APIs
  • Content management system

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working
  with:
  • Salesforce development
  • OpenShift
  • Laravel PHP framework
  • DevOps (dev/stg/prod.)
  • Authorize.net
    payment gateway and API
• Certifications:
  • Salesforce Java Developer after 18 months in service
  • Salesforce
    Platform Developer I after 18 months in service
  • Salesforce Platform Developer II after 24 months in service
  • Salesforce
    Administrator

Salary Range
$74,000 – $82,000

Additional Salary
Information
The salary range reflects our good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible compensation at the time of
posting, the role and associated responsibilities, and the experience, education, and training of the selected
candidate.

Type
Full-Time

Is a background check required for this
posting?
No

Contact’s Name: Judy Mackey

Contact’s Title: Human Resources
Officer

Contact’s Email: jmackey@buffalo.edu

Contact’s
Phone: 716-645-1526

Deadline for Applicants: Open Until Filled

Date to be filled:
05/13/2024

Number of References Required
3