This is a very exciting time at Michigan State University. Join the Enterprise Business Systems Projects (EBSP) and be a part of the team that is designing and building the new information systems that will establish MSU as a model world-grant university for the 21st century. The directive for the EBSP initiative is to create an integrated set of administrative tools that can be used by faculty and staff to accomplish the business of Michigan State University. These tools and technology are critical elements, and when combined with a clear understanding of direction and effective processes create an environment in which the people can advance the future of MSU.

Be a part of designing MSU's future by applying on-line at http://www.jobs.msu.edu.

Open Positions

Information Technologist

Job Summary: This position will be assigned to the Enterprise Business System Project and will work closely with functional business analysts from Finance, Human Resources, Purchasing, Stores, and Research Administration, as new systems are developed and/or purchased software implemented in these areas; the Enterprise Information Steward program intends to ensure that institutional master data is available, understandable, useful, and reliable for facilitating decision support at local and central business levels; will be primarily assigned to work with the cross functional teams as they work to standardize definitions, CRUD rules, business rules, and use of data across the project and as it relates to other systems outside of the scope of Enterprise Business Systems Projects; performs the necessary reviews, audits, and analysis of shared master data to insure that institution-wide obligations for data security, confidentiality, and reliability are coordinated and applied across all units, central systems, and data domains; conducts analytical and theoretical non-routine studies to assist units in developing data policies, procedures, and best practices for collecting, analyzing, and maintaining information in systems to maintain accuracy; promotes the adoption of shared information stewardship principles and approaches across the institution; understands and tracks data-related regulatory and contractual compliance obligations.

Job Title: Information Technologist II/P (13)

Posting #: 2457

External Closing Date: 8/31/08

Information Technologist

Job Title: Information Technologist II/P (13)

Posting #: 2458

External Closing Date: 8/31/08

Upcoming Positions

In addition to the positions posted above, the following openings are anticipated at EBSP in the near future.

Senior J2EE Kuali Application Architect

Serves as lead software architect, designer, and developer for the Kuali Project at MSU; provides daily supervision and direction to the technical development team working on the Kuali Project at MSU; independently meets with customers to determine information technology status, desires, needs, and cross-system issues related to Kuali or other projects of highest sensitivity or complexity and relays this information to the team; performs systems design tasks, including integration of business functions, interface design, and database design; develops, tests, and implements complex software solutions in JAVA; acts as a resource, on a consistent basis, to AIS and other professional staff in the resolution of IT problems related to Kuali and the use of JAVA; independently plans or leads projects of highest technical complexity and long duration; serves as a second level support for users of the Kuali system; participates in consultations with users of the Kuali system; for more information on Kuali go to www.kuali.org/communities/kfs/faq-kfs.shtml.

Senior ERP Technical Analyst

Provide application architecture direction and guidance to ERP projects; Familiarity with large-team software development and release cycles; Provides expertise in software development lifecycle management (analysis, design, development, testing training, etc. ) of new ERP development, including reports, interfaces, business forms, data migration, user exits, and workflow; Participates in the development, maintenance and enhancement of ERP applications; Collaborates with customers, staff, IT and other stakeholders to identify user requirements, assess available technologies, and recommend solution options; Provides assistance in setting configuration and apply configuration settings as required; Assists in ERP system performance monitoring and provide necessary ERP program performance tuning on an ongoing basis; Provides vision, recommendations, and support for new ERP module deployment (HR, FI etc. ) ; Assists with understanding the business processes and how the application supports the business processes and applies this knowledge to best solve problems; Assists with understanding configuration dependencies and interrelationships between data warehouse/business intelligence tools and designs, and troubleshoots in the area with this knowledge.

J2EE Kuali Application Developer

Serves as software designer and developer for the Kuali Project at MSU; independently meets with customers to determine information technology status, desires, needs, and cross-system issues related to Kuali or other projects of high sensitivity or complexity; performs systems design tasks, including integration of business functions, interface design, and database design; develops, tests, and implements complex software solutions in JAVA; acts as a resource, on a consistent basis, to AIS and other professional staff in the resolution of IT problems related to Kuali and the use of JAVA; independently plans or leads projects of moderate technical complexity, size, and duration; serves as a second level support for users of the Kuali system; participates in consultations with users of the Kuali system.

Senior Application Integration/Middleware Architect

The focus of this position is architecture, design, and development of application integration interfaces between computer systems. This position is responsible for planning, developing, and maintaining a messaging architecture and middleware strategy and defining and designing the messaging and integration architecture with a focus on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies for all products. The group size will roughly be 3-8. The main focus of this group is to develop best business practices to enable applications to deliver the highest business value, deliver a stable infrastructure, reduce costs, shorten delivery cycles and to deliver quality. Short and Long Term projects include working with mission critical Enterprise Application Interfaces and Architect successful Messaging between major ERP systems. The major areas of work include:

Application Integration
Middleware Technologies
Workflow
Portal
Security
Interfaces

Senior Data Warehouse Architect

The focus of this position is defining the overall data warehouse architecture (e.g., ETL process, ODS, Data Marts); This position will have overall responsibility for assessing requirements and defining the strategy, technical architecture, implementation plan, and delivery of data warehouse projects for organization. The group size will roughly be 2-5. The main focus of this group is to enable applications to deliver the highest business value, deliver a stable infrastructure, reduce costs, shorten delivery cycles, develop best business practices to deliver quality and achieve all of the former; Designing and directing the ETL process, including data quality and testing; Designing and directing the information access and delivery effort for the data warehouse; Defining and directing the implementation of security requirements for the data warehouse; Defining meta data standards for the data warehouse; Directing the data warehouse meta data capture and access effort; Defining production release requirements; The architect will also ensure that this architecture will support the growing reporting and data integration needs of the institution; Experience with data warehousing elements including star schema,snowflake schema, cube design, ODS and Dimensional or Aggregativedesigns and others; Lead and mentor other data warehouse developers; experience with SQL.

Lead Business Analyst

Analyzes human resource time and attendance processes and recommends enhancements that improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Reviews, interprets, and applies related University policies and external regulations as needed. Develops and reviews complex system analysis and design specifications. Prepares and applies process scenarios to test resulting system functionality. Collaborates with customers, stakeholders, and affected business units in the development of solutions to business process issues.

Lead Business Analyst

Analyzes faculty and staff related human resource processes and recommends enhancements that improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Reviews, interprets, and applies related University policies and external regulations as needed. Develops and reviews complex system analysis and design specifications. Prepares and applies process scenarios to test resulting system functionality. Collaborates with customers, stakeholders, and affected business units in the development of solutions to business process issues.

Business Analyst

Analyzes human resource learning management processes and recommends enhancements that improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Assists with the development and review of system analysis and design specifications. Develops and applies process scenarios to test resulting system functionality. Collaborates with customers, stakeholders, and affected business units in the development of solutions to business process issues.