The Electronic Research Administration (ERA) team within the Office for Research and Innovation (ORI) provides cutting-edge and intuitive tools that facilitate the effective and efficient management of research administration and regulatory compliance tasks by Virginia Tech’s research community, including faculty, department staff, and research administrators. The team works closely with all units across the Office of Research and Innovation—including within the Office of Sponsored Programs, the Division of Scholarly Integrity and Research Compliance, and the Office of Laboratory Animal Resources—to develop software requirements, redesign and improve processes, and develop, purchase, implement, and integrate electronic research administration solutions in alignment with the university’s strategic goals and initiatives.

The ERA team is searching for a Senior Web Application Developer to develop and maintain client-server-based rich internet applications in Java EE+ for the Summit research enterprise platform and to monitor and manage applications using CloudWatch platform capabilities in Amazon Web Services. This position will lead the ongoing development and maintenance of a suite of single-purpose research enterprise applications utilizing the LAMP stack.