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
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PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer (Preferred)
Top Skills
What We Do
Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is an educational service company that provides an array of support services in the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still supports and works closely with GCU. GCE designs and develops educational programs for GCU and other traditional campus institutions, as well as online partner institutions at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.
At Grand Canyon Education, we value our employees and support a unique and diverse workplace culture designed to help you thrive. We offer a wide variety of career opportunities across various departments. For job opportunities, please visit https://jobs.gce.com/
In addition Grand Canyon Education has been recognized as one of America’s Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek and Statista. We have also been identified as a leader in remote work as we have been named to FlexJobs' 9th annual list of the Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs! Finally, we have been praised for our commitment to cultivating an engaging and attractive workplace by Top Workplaces USA.
