The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
SOFTWARE ENGINEER IV (UTRGV Employees Only)
🇺🇸 Edinburg, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Software Engineering
🗓️ December 9th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Lead software development phases including requirement analysis, technical design, coding, testing, and implementation.
- Manage and prioritize workload and customer service requests related to enterprise administrative systems.
- Coordinate upgrades and troubleshoot issues for ERP systems and associated third-party software.
- Develop and maintain adhoc SQL reports from the production environment.
- Provide technical guidance and quality assurance review for junior developers' work.
- Required skills include expertise in multiple software languages, software development lifecycle processes, and strong technical research and documentation abilities.
- Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related field.
- At least six years of relevant experience in software design, development, and testing.
- Preferred certification: ITIL Foundation.
- Serve as technical lead for system upgrades and coordinate among business analysts, DBAs, and other IT teams.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER IV (UTRGV Employees Only) Full Description
Office Location
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
1201 W. University Drive
Human Resources
MASS Building 2nd Floor
Edinburg, TX 78539
Edinburg: (956)665-2451
Brownsville: (956) 882-8205
Office hours:
Monday-Friday
8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Staff Recruitment: careers@utrgv.edu
School of Medicine Recruitment: SOMCareers@utrgv.edu
Graduate Assistantships: assistantships@utrgv.edu
Faculty Recruitment:
College of Engineering & Computer Science: cecs@utrgv.edu
Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship: cobe@utrgv.edu
College of Sciences Office of the Dean: cos@utrgv.edu
College of Education and P-16 Integration: cep@utrgv.edu
College of Fine Arts: cofa@utrgv.edu
College of Liberal Arts: liberalarts@utrgv.edu
Website: https://careers.utrgv.edu
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Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following:
*Date of Birth
*Gender
*Ethnicity/Race
Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley reserves the right to discontinue accepting applications prior to the stated close date of this position, after meeting the posting requirement of three (3) calendar days.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (956) 665-2451 and/or careers@utrgv.edu.
| Posting Number | SRGV8693 |
|---|---|
| Working Title | SOFTWARE ENGINEER IV (UTRGV Employees Only) |
| Number of Vacancies | 1 |
| Location | Edinburg, Texas |
| Department | Application & Data Services |
| FTE | 1.0 |
| FLSA | Exempt |
| Scope of Job | Perform expert level duties in the Analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation for the computer-based Enterprise Administrative systems to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and support the business processes of the University. This includes the Student, Finance, Human Resources (ERP systems) and all associated third party software applications. |
| Description of Duties | • Software Development Phase: o Displays expert requirement analysis skills that includes the various tasks of gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating and managing software requirements. o Displays expert level coding skills that involve the creation of a technical design document to provide a technical solution using abstract concepts and adhering to standards developed by the department, primarily to procedures relating to Software Development Lifecycle. o Analysis/Design – Expert level skills for effectively communicating with the customer (most cases a business analyst or equivalent) to obtain information for creating technical documentation and providing the details for code development with emphasis in ingenuity and creativity to design and create new, functional software programs and complete applications. o Demonstrates expert level testing skills to validate the code before releasing to customer for integrated testing. o Coordinates development unit testing of code before releasing to customer for Functional Testing. o Problem Solver Duty – Responsible for investigating and resolving problem issues occurring during scheduled week at an expert level pace with no assistance. • Acts as the Workload Manager, including management and prioritizing workload submitted by customer. • Responsible for Technical Research to keep job knowledge up-to-date and in most cases self-teach new languages and new development tools to ensure the most feasible technical solution is proposed. Expert technical resource for junior members. • Responsible for Quality Assurance, including reviewing objects to be moved to production and responsible for reviewing the changes provided by junior developers to ensure coding and documentations meet expectations as defined. Authorized to reject implementation until corrections made to the teams’ satisfaction. • Expert in Adhoc Reporting code development – Creates and maintains adhoc SQL scripts\queries that are run from the Enterprise Administrative systems production environment. • Responsible for Enterprise Administrative systems Upgrades – Authorized Technical Lead to coordinate (between teams), troubleshoot and research issues relating to technical upgrade installations to Enterprise Administrative systems. • Manages customer service requests and coordinates resolution or redirection to appropriate team. • Coordinate Teams – Coordinates/facilitates system changes with the Enterprise Administrative systems Business Analysts, Database Administrators, Application Administrators, Access Administration Team and IT Service Desk. • On Call Responsibilities- Required to be available for work during non-business hours • Managing Test Environment Access – Responsible for granting, authorizing and documenting access to the test instances to the functional customers. • Policy/Procedure Development – Developing team standard operating procedures. • Performs other duties as assigned. |
| Supervision Received | General supervision from assigned supervisor. |
| Supervision Given | May supervise assigned staff. |
| Required Education | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or a Computer related major from an accredited university. |
| Preferred Education | None. |
| Licenses/Certifications | Preferred: ITIL Foundation Certification |
| Required Experience | Six (6) years of experience in working with several software languages in a structured environment using common software industry practices that include the phases of analysis, design, development, testing and implementation. |
| Preferred Experience | None. |
| Equipment | Required: Use of standard office equipment. |
| Working Conditions | Needs to be able to successfully perform all required duties. Office Environment; some travel and weekend/evening work is required. UTRGV is a distributed institution, which may require presence at multiple locations throughout the Rio Grande Valley. |
| Other | Ability to multitask assignments, extreme flexibility on assignments types and the knowledge needs to be very extensive in the technical aspects of their duties. Possess resourcefulness and creative thinking skills for problem resolution. Possess analytical skills to effectively and accurately identify problem code. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Possess Technical Research skills (technical manuals and resources). Work effectively as an individual and as a team. Possess strong technical writing skills for documentation. To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 117.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired and to continue to be employed in the position. |
| Physical Capabilities | N/A |
| Employment Category | Full-Time |
| Minimum Salary | Commensurate with Experience |
| Posted Salary | Commensurate with Experience |
| Position Available Date | 12/08/2025 |
| Grant Funded Position | No |
| If Yes, Provide Grant Expiration Date |
| EEO Statement | It is the policy of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to promote and ensure equal employment opportunities for all individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or protected veteran status. In accordance with the requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, our University is committed to comply with all government requirements and ensures non-discrimination in its education programs and activities, including employment. We encourage women, minorities and differently abled persons to apply for employment positions of interest. |
|---|---|
| Special Instructions to Applicants | Dear Applicant, Human Resources will not be held responsible for redacting any confidential information from the documents you attach with your application. The confidential information includes the following: Date of Birth Gender *Ethnicity/Race Please make sure that you omit this information prior to submission. We are advising that Human Resources will be forwarding your application to the department as per your submission. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley reserves the right to discontinue accepting applications prior to the stated close date of this position, after meeting the posting requirement of three (3) calendar days. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at (956) 665-2451 and/or careers@utrgv.edu. |
| Additional Information |
UTRGV is a distributed location institution and working location is subject to change based on need. All UTRGV employees are required to have a criminal background check (CBC). Incomplete applications will not be considered. Substitutions to the above requirements must have prior approval from the VP of HR & Talent Development . |
| Quick Link | https://careers.utrgv.edu/postings/49615 |
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