APPLICATION DEVELOPER II / EMERGENCY APPOINTMENT HOMELESSNESS

About the role

The Department of Mental Health is seeking qualified candidates to fill emergency Application Developer II vacancies related to the homelessness crisis. Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment.

Responsibilities

• Codes, tests and debugs application programs to create new business applications and interfaces or maintains/modifies existing business applications according to program specifications.
• Develops program specifications.
• Performs unit or modular testing and integration testing for new or modified applications.
• Writes and executes programs to extract, transform, and load data for system conversions.
• Prepares technical documents, user manuals, and help files.
• Identifies, analyzes, records, tracks, and resolves application problems.
• Develops functional requirements, as needed.
• Installs application software, as needed.
• Researches application development tools and methodologies and makes recommendations to management, as needed.
• Affords assistance in the development of solicitation documents including requests for information, requests for proposals, requests for quotes, and statements of work, as needed.
• Affords assistance in reviewing vendor performance, as needed.
• Affords assistance in database management related activities for a specific application, as needed.

Requirements

• Option I: Graduation from an accredited* college or university with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field and two (2) years of recent** experience coding, testing and debugging application programs.
• Option II: One (1) year of experience at the level of Los Angeles County class of Application Developer I.
• Option III: Three (3) years of recent** experience coding, testing and debugging application programs.

Qualifications

• Accreditation: Accredited institutions are those listed in the publications of regional, national or international accrediting agencies which are accepted by the Department of Human Resources. Publications such as American Universities and Colleges and International Handbook of Universities are acceptable references. Also acceptable, if appropriate, are degrees that have been evaluated and deemed to be equivalent to degrees from United States accredited institutions by an academic credential evaluation agency recognized by The National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE).
• Recent is defined as experience accrued within the last five (5) years.

Skills

• Knowledge of programming languages and software development methodologies.
• Experience with application development tools and techniques.
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex application issues.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Opportunity for permanent County employment after successful completion of the initial work period.
• Assessment of work performance during the initial work period.
• Weighted assessment of 100% for those who successfully pass the assessment.

Pay

Pay details are not specified in the posting.

Schedule

Schedule details are not specified in the posting.