L&I IT Application Development Journey
About the role
The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) is seeking a Journey-Level IT Application Developer to join the Applications & Data Management (A&DM) team within the Maintenance & Operations (M&O) program. This role involves designing, building, maintaining, and improving applications that support agency programs.
Responsibilities
- Help design, build, maintain, and improve applications that support agency programs.
- Develop and maintain software applications, application interfaces and web services.
- Understand business requirements and how they translate to application features.
- Serve as a technical advisor who is responsible for assisting management in coordinating work items for several applications.
- Develop, maintain and enhance applications.
- Develop prototypes that enable business functionality.
- Lead staff or work independently to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve technology issues relating to applications, environment, platform, software, or hardware.
- Participate in Incident Response and Problem Management teams to identify solutions to issues.
Qualifications
- Eight (8) years of professional experience with all of the following:
- Developing and enhancing applications using languages and tools such as Visual Studio, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript XML, JQuery, MWM or MVC, WPF, ADO, WCF, JSON
- Writing and accessing database code using T-SQL, stored procedures, and Entity Framework
- Performing unit testing
- Applying development standards in a managed environment
- OR
- A bachelor’s degree or higher related to Computer Science, Computer Programming, or a closely aligned field AND Four (4) years of recent professional experience:
- Developing and enhancing applications using languages and tools such as Visual Studio, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript XML, JQuery, MWM or MVC, WPF, ADO, WCF, JSON
- Writing and accessing database code using T-SQL, stored procedures, and Entity Framework
- Performing unit testing
- Applying development standards in a managed environment
- OR
- An associate’s degree related to Computer Science, Computer Programming, or a closely aligned field AND Six (6) years of recent professional experience:
- Developing and enhancing applications using languages and tools such as Visual Studio, C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, HTML, CSS, JavaScript XML, JQuery, MWM or MVC, WPF, ADO, WCF, JSON
- Writing and accessing database code using T-SQL, stored procedures, and Entity Framework
- Performing unit testing
- Applying development standards in a managed environment
Skills
The ideal candidate is an excellent communicator who can work effectively with developers, analysts, and program staff. They are highly detail-oriented, ensuring systems are reliable, secure, and well documented. They are organized and methodical, able to manage tasks and priorities across multiple projects. They are creative problem solvers who enjoy diagnosing issues and building effective solutions. They are collaborative and proactive, willing to share ideas and support teammates.
Benefits
L&I provides a modern work environment and excellent benefits including paid leave, tuition reimbursement, Infants at Work Program, and a generous retirement package for qualified employees at the end of their career. Teleworking may be up to full time with the expectation of attending in-person meetings and training occasionally or upon business needs. The assigned duty station for this position is Tumwater, WA.