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IT Application Development - Senior/Specialist (Olympia) Non-permanent

State of Washington · Olympia, WA · 2 wk ago
Engineering$97k–$131k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) seeks a skilled IT Application Developer to join our team in Olympia, WA. This role is non-permanent but with the intent of becoming permanent in 2027. You will lead and support teams in designing, developing, and maintaining mission-critical applications that support DCYF’s mission.

Responsibilities

  • Leading and supporting teams in designing, developing, and maintaining mission-critical applications.

  • Ensuring high-quality, secure, and reliable technology solutions.

  • Overseeing project delivery, system enhancements, and application support.

  • Partnering with DevOps teams to streamline deployments.

  • Ensuring compliance with state and federal technology standards.

  • Supporting disaster recovery and business continuity efforts.

  • Managing three distinct technical architectures (Unisys, IBM, and SQL).

  • Participating in iterative process improvements regarding the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

  • Designing, developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting interfaces with business partners.

  • Recommending, designing, and developing technical solutions.

  • Decomposing high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements.

  • Troubleshooting and resolving complex application, interface, and data-related issues.

  • Monitoring application health and function, reacting and responding to problems.

  • Resolving incidents for stakeholders, customers, and partners by pragmatically working through potential causes until a solution is identified and implemented.

  • Overseeing 1 IT Application Development position (senior level) and 4 IT Contract positions in performing day-to-day application development activities.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or business/public administration with 9 semester or 15 quarter hours of computer science courses; AND

  • Seven (7) years of progressively more complex problem-solving as a developer designing, developing, or maintaining large-scale applications with mission-critical business functions using COBOL, ECL, SSG, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Knockout, JQuery, Ninject, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Reporting Services, MS SQL Server, Microsoft .NET C#, Transact Structured Query Language (TSQL), and Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).

Additional Qualifications

  • Expert knowledge of application development principles, concepts, technologies, current industry standards and the Microsoft technology stack including Windows, Visual Studio, IIS, .NET C#, SQL, TFS, SharePoint, etc.

  • Working knowledge of Agile values and principles as they apply to application development.

  • Working knowledge of Scrum development methodologies, artifacts, and traditions.

  • Working knowledge of DevOps concepts.

  • Experience working in a highly regulated environment where IT assets and data are subject to a broad range of State and federal information security requirements and regulations.

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