Senior Application Developer (Information Systems Analyst II, Opt. A)

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No job title heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Also remove application instructions. Keep substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Let's extract: Intro: "Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment. This position serves as a Senior Application Developer performing complex professional and advisory functions in Application Development Services within the Cornerstone Unit. In this role you will develop and maintain complex applications in web-based analysis and design methodology utilizing .NET, Visual Basic, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, or similar UI frameworks leveraging industry best practices and standards. In addition, you will conduct in-depth studies involving substantial technical research and systems analysis and provide analysis to DHS program and/or DoIT/DHS management for development, maintenance and deployment of products. This position serves as project leader providing guidance, training, and direction to lower-level professional staff. If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities, and experience, we invite you to apply for this position to join the DoIT Team!" That's about the role. Then benefits: "As a State of Illinois employee, you receive a comprehensive benefits package including: Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans.Flexible work schedules (when available and dependent upon position)10 -25 days of paid vacation time annually (10 days for first year of state employment)12 days of paid sick time annually which carryover year to year3 paid personal business days per year13-14 paid holidays per year dependent on election years12 weeks of paid parental leavePension plan through the State Employees Retirement SystemDeferred Compensation Program – voluntary supplemental retirement planOptional pre-tax programs -Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) & Dependent Care Assistant Plan (DCAP)Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility For more information regarding State of Illinois Benefits follow this link: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/Pages/default.aspx" We need to format benefits as list. Essential Functions: list of duties. Minimum Qualifications: list. Specialized Skills: list. Preferred Qualifications: list. Conditions of Employment: list (but maybe we can include as Requirements? Might be considered Requirements). However we need to avoid duplication. The posting repeats many items: Minimum Qualifications, Specialized Skills, Preferred Qualifications (some duplicate). We need to preserve all substantive info but avoid duplication? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must keep everything, but we can combine similar items? Might be considered duplication if same text appears multiple times. The posting repeats the same bullet points under Minimum Qualifications, Specialized Skills, Preferred Qualifications (identical). We need to keep them but maybe we can note they are repeated? However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we could keep them as separate sections but that would be repetitive. The instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine similar content into one section, but we must not lose detail. If we combine, we still preserve the detail (just not repeated). That seems acceptable. Thus we can have sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (Essential Functions), Requirements (Minimum Qualifications + Conditions of Employment?), Skills (Specialized Skills + Preferred Qualifications?), Benefits. Pay and Schedule: Not explicitly stated besides flexible work schedules mentioned in benefits. No explicit pay. So we should not create Pay or Schedule sections unless posting actually states them. It mentions flexible work schedules as part of benefits, but not a specific schedule. So we can include Schedule under Benefits? Actually flexible work schedules is a benefit. So we can keep it in Benefits. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits. We need to use

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  for prose. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Let's craft. About the role: prose paragraph(s) from intro. Responsibilities: list of essential functions. Requirements: combine Minimum Qualifications and Conditions of Employment (maybe also include "Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college with course work in computer science or directly related fields." etc.) Skills: combine Specialized Skills and Preferred Qualifications (though they are identical; we can just list once but note they are both required and preferred? Might lose nuance. But we could list them as "Required Skills" and "Preferred Skills". However we need to avoid duplication but keep detail. Could have two subsections under Skills? But we only allowed headings h3 for sections; we could have subheadings not specified? Not required. Could just list all items and note that they are both required and preferred? Might be okay. Better: Keep Skills section with two sublists: Required Skills and Preferred Skills, each as

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  or . We'll keep simple: list all items, maybe note that they are both required and preferred. Benefits: list. Let's extract details precisely. Intro text: We'll combine into a paragraph. " Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment. This position serves as a Senior Application Developer performing complex professional and advisory functions in Application Development Services within the Cornerstone Unit. In this role you will develop and maintain complex applications in web-based analysis and design methodology utilizing .NET, Visual Basic, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, or similar UI frameworks leveraging industry best practices and standards. In addition, you will conduct in-depth studies involving substantial technical research and systems analysis and provide analysis to DHS program and/or DoIT/DHS management for development, maintenance and deployment of products. This position serves as project leader providing guidance, training, and direction to lower-level professional staff. If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities, and experience, we invite you to apply for this position to join the DoIT Team!" We'll keep that as

  . Responsibilities (Essential Functions): List items: - Under administrative direction, serves as a Senior Application Developer for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) supporting the Department of Human Services (DHS) performing complex professional and advisory functions in Bureau of Application Management. - Serves as a project leader on highly complex projects providing technical guidance to staff for completing assignments. - Writes, debugs, tests, and documents new applications or updates existing programs utilizing Change Management Software. - Develops follow-up reports for the monitoring of the systems and the cost projections of programs including the documentation of conceptual, general and detail designs and confers with staff regarding requirements for Bureau of Application Management Systems. - Keeps abreast of new developments in the information technology field by continuing education through online training platforms, meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures. - Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above. We'll put each as

  . Requirements: Minimum Qualifications: - Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college with course work in computer science or directly related fields. - Requires three (3) years of professional experience in Application Services or a related Information Technology field. Conditions of Employment (list): - Requires the ability to verify identity. - Requires employment authorization to accept permanent full-time position with the State of Illinois. - Requires the ability to pass a position specific, agency required background check. - Requires self-disclosure of criminal history. - Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license and the ability to travel in performance of duties. - Requires the ability to work outside of normal hours to meet deadlines. - Requires the ability to work overtime including scheduled, unscheduled, short notice, evenings, weekends, and holidays. - Requires the ability to attend seminars, conferences, and training to remain current on methods, tools, ideologies, or other industry related topics relevant to job duties. - Requires the ability to lift and carry objects or equipment weighing up to 10 pounds. This is considered sedentary work as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (20 CFR 404.1567(a)). Sedentary work involves lifting no more than 10 pounds at a time and requires occasional lifting, carrying, walking, and standing. - The conditions of employment listed are incorporated and/or related to any duties included in the position description. This position DOES contain “Specialized Skills” (as that term is used in CBAs). (maybe include as note) - The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is the state's IT agency delivering an enterprise approach to statewide technology, innovation, and telecommunication services, as well as policy and standards development, lifecycle investment planning, and cybersecurity services. With over 1,500 employees, DoIT delivers IT services and innovative solutions to customer agencies to improve services provided to Illinois residents, DoIT offers employees the opportunity to advance their careers, develop new skills and reach their potential, both personally and professionally. DoIT is committed to promoting and preserving a workplace culture that embraces diversity and inclusion. We welcome and value employees with different backgrounds, life experiences and talents. It is the collective sum of our individual differences that provides a broad perspective, leading to greater innovation and achievement. In recruiting for our team, we recognize the unique contributions of each applicant regardless of culture, ethnicity, race, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. That last paragraph is more about organization; could be included in About the role? But we already have intro. Might be considered boilerplate? It's not EEO but still descriptive. Might keep as part of About the role? However it's after Conditions of Employment. Might be considered "About the organization". Could be included in About the role section as extra paragraph. But we already have intro; we could add another paragraph about DoIT. But we need to avoid duplication; it's not duplicated elsewhere. We'll include as part of About the role maybe after intro. But we must not include EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate; this is diversity statement, which might be considered EEO? It's about diversity and inclusion; could be considered EEO-related. The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. So we should remove that diversity statement. So we will omit that paragraph. Also remove "The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is the state's IT agency..." maybe also considered boilerplate? It's descriptive of the agency; could be considered part of About the role. Not explicitly EEO. Might keep. But to be safe, we can keep a brief description: "The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is the state's IT agency delivering an enterprise approach to statewide technology, innovation, and telecommunication services, as well as policy and standards development, lifecycle investment planning, and cybersecurity services. With over 1,500 employees, DoIT delivers IT services and innovative solutions to customer agencies to improve services provided to Illinois residents, DoIT offers employees the opportunity to advance their careers, develop new skills and reach their potential, both personally and professionally." That's not EEO; it's agency description. Keep. Now Skills: Specialized Skills (identical to Preferred Qualifications). We'll list as Required Skills maybe. List: - Requires three (3) years of professional experience designing, developing and maintaining web-based applications using .NET technologies, Visual Basic, C