Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

Title Details
Job TitleSoftware Engineer/Developer III
Job CodeIT004
Scaled JobNo
Salary Grade25
Family NameInformation Technology
Sub Family NameApplication and Web Development
Job Overview
Job SummaryDesigns, develops, tests, debugs, operates, and troubleshoots software and applications. Conducts system analysis and design, and provides technical leadership, training, and guidance to less experienced staff to support information technology business operations.
Job Responsibilities
  • Reviews application design specifications, codes new applications, and makes enhancements to existing applications
  • Designs and implements test plans, and prepares systems test data
  • Prepares program documentation and training requirements
  • Develops, prepares, or modifies technical specifications for complex projects, system integrations, and upgrades
  • Conducts systems analysis, reviews and interprets system requirements, and develops detailed system design specifications for system integration and upgrades
  • Reviews application modules for quality assurance and checks compliance with application architecture standards
  • Conducts analysis for the evaluation and selection of vendor software solutions and packages
  • Leads sub-functional team for application development or enhancement
  • Contributes to the development of data structure and systems performance strategies
  • Trains and provides technical guidance to lower level staff
Additional Information
Employee CategoryAcademic Staff (AS)
Supervision RequiredNo
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Bachelor's Degree - Preferred Minimum
FLSA Threshold Exemption

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.