Developer Lead

at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States Job Description Apply for Job Job ID53418 LocationEvanston, Illinois Add to Favorite Jobs Email this

Job Department:

MCC Information Technology Salary/Grade:

ITS/83 Target hiring range for this position will be between $125,220 - $161,200 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Job Summary:

This position leads the design, development, and implementation of modern web and data-driven applications supporting the McCormick School of Engineering. The role combines technical leadership with strong stakeholder engagement, working closely with academic, research, administrative, and business analyst partners to clarify needs, shape technical solutions, and translate priorities into scalable and maintainable systems. This position provides architectural direction, contributes hands-on development, mentors developers, and helps identify opportunities to improve systems, data access, workflows, and digital services through modern engineering practices and AI-enabled tools. This role architects and develops solutions that integrate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence technologies such as large language models (LLMs) and AI-driven developer tooling, into applications and workflows that enhance productivity, decision-making, and digital services within McCormick. The Developer Lead establishes development standards and best practices, mentors developers, and ensures systems are secure, accessible, and aligned with modern web and AI development practices. The role contributes directly to application architecture, system integrations, and the development of new AI-enabled capabilities across McCormick platforms. It also supports the development of a centralized data platform and hub-and-spoke application architecture that enables shared data services, analytics, and intelligent applications across McCormick systems. Works closely with stakeholders to identify opportunities for automation, intelligent tooling, and AI-assisted development, guiding implementation strategies that improve internal systems, data access, and user experiences. Maintains, enhances, and supports existing applications and systems, ensuring reliability, performance, security, and ongoing alignment with evolving business and user needs.

Specific Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning Structures requirements; designs, documents, and implements data driven solutions. Designs/architects scalable systems that meet future growth demands Identifies and recommends project and activities as related to system/architectural direction and strategy. Establishes best practices and procedures/tools, programming standards, etc. Provides recommendations for strategic planning and system growth/future business needs. Researches and applies state-of-the-art and peer best practices in regard to software development and systems engineering. Helps plan and prioritize web team projects. Administration Responds to customer inquiries via phone, online, in-person, etc. Develops and implements procedures for data security, management and compliance. Creates and maintains code documentation. Grants system access to new user. Delivers system presentation and overview. Collaborates with cross-team assets to create project timeline and assign tasks and deliverables. Identifies resources needed for future projects. Represents project in absence of manager. Sets up meetings with clients and other staff as appropriate. Development Gathers and analyzes requirements; develops solutions/programs/reports, and implements technology. Reviews, analyzes, and modifies programming systems including encoding, testing, debugging and documenting programs. Troubleshoots problems involving complex difficult issues. Prioritize tasks Meets with business analyst/stakeholder to determine requirements, gives input on prioritization. Collaborates on development best practices and standards with development teams across the institution. Contributes to coding and maintenance of web applications. Stays up to date on technical solutions: service oriented architecture, system monitoring, web APIs, databases and scripting languages such as PHP and Ruby on Rails. Supervises Assigns staff to certain projects/tasks Champions utilization of best practices and standards, and ensures compliance with IT/University policies. Conducts performance evaluations for supervised team members. Serves as highest level technical expert on the web team. Miscellaneous Performs other duties as... For full info follow application link. Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. To view full details and how to apply, please login or create a Job Seeker account