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Grand Canyon Education

Senior Cloud Developer

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
Senior level
The Senior Cloud Developer will design and develop custom applications, ensuring they meet business needs, support best practices, and mentor junior developers.
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Grand Canyon Education is seeking a highly skilled and forward‑thinking Senior Cloud Developer to support the design, development, and enhancement of custom applications that drive business efficiency and innovation. This role partners closely with business stakeholders and development teams to translate functional needs into scalable technical solutions, ensuring that applications are reliable, well‑architected, and aligned with organizational goals.

The Senior Cloud Developer will contribute to application architecture, support development best practices, evaluate system enhancements, and provide mentorship to less experienced team members. This position requires strong problem‑solving abilities, deep technical knowledge, and a commitment to producing high‑quality, maintainable software. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment, brings a strong desire to learn new technologies, and supports GCE’s mission by developing solutions that improve operational excellence across the organization.

MUST reside in the Phoenix, AZ area.

Primary Responsibilities /Accountabilities/ Essential Functions:

  • MUST reside within the Phoenix, AZ area

  • Works directly with business partners to develop the technical design of custom applications.

  • Defines best practices for application coding and design.

  • Works closely with business groups and development team to ensure that technical designs and applications satisfy business needs.

  • Establishes product roadmaps and schedules with input from business groups and the development team.

  • Supports the definition, implementation of architectures, tools and processes to facilitate solution development.

  • Able to interface and effectively integrate Microsoft Office product suite.

  • Confer with users and team members to develop, understand and update requirements for configuration and development of software.

  • Write and maintain programming documentation on subjects including code, API functionality, and software issue creation/resolution.

  • Maintain confidentiality regarding information being processed, stored or accessed.

  • Maintain, support and troubleshoot Web applications hosted on a software as a service platform.

  • Identify opportunities for application scalability, sustainability & improvement

  • Evaluate customer or internally drive functionality change requests for technical feasibility and level of effort

  • Prepare database schema for review and deployment

  • Execute programming updates for application updates or enhancements per project.

  • Conduct application software testing, prototype review, and quality assurance for stage and production release and post release monitoring and follow up.

  • Collaborate with and mentor fellow developers

  • Mentor, guide, and coach less experienced staff on technical issues

  • Support development, testing, and deployment best practices

  • Other duties as assigned

Equipment Used and Responsibility

  • Visual Studio, C#, VS Code, concepts, JavaScript, JSON, XML, DHTML, Yaml

  • SQL Server Management Studio, T-SQL, SQL Server (stored procedures constraints and triggers)

  • Dynamics 365 CE

  • Familiarity with Azure Web Services, Functions, Web Apps, Component Services and Index Servers, Azure DevOps, Git, Terraform

  • Microsoft Power (Platform, Canvas and Model Driven Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate, Fabric) OData, FilterXML Queries

  • Basic technical knowledge of current software protocols, business platforms, middleware, internet standards, and database software.

  • Knowledge of all basic Object-Oriented Concepts and relational databases.

  • Understanding of TCP/IP networking

  • Must pass background investigation

Experience/ Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (computer science, information technology, etc.) from a regionally accredited institution.

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in software design and implementation; experience leading large projects, mentoring staff and creating problem-solving strategies.

  • Strong understanding of web servers, load-balancing, redundancy and 3-tier architecture; system development lifecycle processes; object-oriented development and principles.

  • An equivalent combination of directly related work experience and education may be substituted upon supervisor’s approval.

  • Ability to communicate effectively with various levels of personnel.

  • Ability to learn application tool and execute in application environment.

  • Strong desire to learn new technologies; be adaptive to new tools.

  • Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail and willingness to learn and be a team player.

  • Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.

  • Familiarity with project management techniques including planning, organizing, time management and financial management

  • PL-900: Power Platform Fundamentals (Preferred)

  • AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals (Preferred)

  • AZ-204: Azure Developer Associate (Preferred)

  • MB-910: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (Preferred)

  • PL-600: Power Platform Solutions Architect Expert (Preferred)

  • PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer (Preferred)

Top Skills

Azure Web Services
C#
Dataverse
Dhtml
Dynamics 365 Ce
Git
JavaScript
JSON
Microsoft Power Platform
Odata
Sql Server Management Studio
T-Sql
Terraform
Visual Studio
Vs Code
XML
Yaml

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