IT PROGRAMMER ANALYST, LEAD/ADVANCED FULL-TIME CONTRACTUAL

About the role

This full-time contractual IT Programmer Analyst Lead position serves as a technical lead for the Maryland Medicaid Information System (MMIS) Reporting Team. Key responsibilities include designing, developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining programming solutions that support critical Medicaid operations. This role also involves combining hands-on application development with team leadership, providing technical guidance, mentoring, and oversight to programmer analysts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of programming solutions supporting MMIS reporting and business operations
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and work direction to programmer analysts, including training, coaching, and quality review of deliverables
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, maintainable application and reporting solutions
• Develop and maintain system documentation, technical specifications, and operational procedures to support ongoing system reliability and knowledge transfer
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, provide on-call support as needed, and recommend improvements to system performance and functionality

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Six years of experience, two years of which must include designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining applications systems and programs using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools
• Four years of experience converting data from project specifications by writing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools

Desired Or Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting the Maryland Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) or another State's MMIS
• Experience in IBM z/OS mainframe application development and support
• Experience and proficiency in COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, ISPF and TSO
• Experience with debugging and performance tools such as Xpeditor, File-AID and QMF
• Experience with Information Builders FOCUS

Special Requirements

Employees in this classification may be subject to call-in 24 hours a day and, therefore, may be required to provide the employing agency with a telephone number where the employee can be reached.