Programmer Analyst

Information Services and Technology (IS&T) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks a programmer analyst to join a talented development team working with a wide array of technologies.  The team's primary responsibilities are the design, implementation, and support of MIT's business intelligence and reporting needs.  This includes a PHP-based reporting and forecasting application; a large-scale enterprise-wide data warehouse; and assisting the MIT community with their reporting needs, including training and documentation.  Will collaborate with team members throughout the software development life cycle, interact directly with clients to negotiate solutions and implementation, and work with design vendors to ensure the designs they deliver meet the client’s needs and usability/accessibility concerns to ensure requirements and standards are met.  Responsibilities also include the design, development, testing, and implementation of application software and interfaces. 

Requirements:  a minimum of five years’ development experience with complex, multitiered, high-availability, PHP-based Internet applications; Perl scripting and PHP expertise; solid open source software and relational database experience; strong SQL database development and architecture experience using Oracle and MySQL platforms; structure development experience using standard open source development, build and testing tools (SVN, Maven, Bamboo, Junit/PHPunit, Eclipse IDE); and advanced HTML skills (standards-compliant, cross-browser XHTML, and CSS), and JavaScript experience (via jQuery).  Experience with a range of programming languages preferred.  Knowledge of Java a plus.  Must possess strong project management, software implementation, problem solving, and communication skills.  Agile and iterative development experience a plus.  Should have application architecture experience including object-oriented design.  Initiative, client orientation, and teamwork competencies expected; as is ability to communicate technical issues with nontechnical people.   

Interested candidates may apply on-line at http://web.mit.edu/jobs .  Please reference job number mit-00006666 and indicate where you saw this posting. 

MIT is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.  Applications from women, minorities, veterans, older workers, and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged.