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NEOGOV · 3 months ago

IT Application Development - Senior/Specialist

Thurston County – Olympia, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$97K/yr - $131K/yr

7+ years exp

NEOGOV is seeking a Senior/Specialist in IT Application Development for the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board. This senior technical position involves designing, developing, and maintaining an enterprise Salesforce solution while overseeing a team of developers and ensuring alignment with the agency's project management processes.

GovTechHuman ResourcesInformation TechnologySoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

Provide direct supervision of application development and system administration personnel, establish position objectives and expectations

Establish short-term objectives and long-term application development and support services roadmap; engage staff and colleagues in collaborate development of short and long-term objectives; obtain manager review and approval of long-term technical roadmap; ensure alignment with division’s approved technology roadmap

Oversee, develop detailed, comprehensive and well-structured application architected designs to assure quality, efficient and secure complex software systems and databases for staff, other agencies, and the public to consume daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work

Oversee, establish short-term objectives and long-term application development and support services roadmap for multiple enterprise level applications; engage staff and colleagues to collaborate in development of short and long-term objectives; obtain manager review and approval of long-term technical roadmap; ensure alignment with division’s approved technology roadmap

Effectively mentor, train, coach, counsel, and motivate junior developers, system administrators and other technical staff to achieve consistently high performance

Develop complex, user intuitive, ADA compliance, and secure web user-interfaces which includes secure architecture design, coding, unit tests, function tests, system tests, and implementation

Architect application components, APIs and web services for re-usable code

Establish agency standard development tools and framework

Provide system analysis, consult, supervise, and support system failures of small to complex information systems independently

Define, train and enforce WSLCB release management procedures and ensure all WSLCB code and data are backed up with recovery processes

Develop, review and approve code modification of fellow developers before migration into user acceptance testing and into production

Plan, design, document, review and write code to create, enhance or fix application components

Using cloud ETL services to build integration with custom application, support Custom-Off the Shelf (COTS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) software and services

Coordinate with COTS, PaaS, and SaaS vendors, application administrators and technical staff on defining technical integration, logging, reporting and security requirements, implementing, upgrades, enhancements and security patches

Verify and validate successful code migration and implementation including code review of Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) systems

Write code to enhance, improve logging, reporting and security of COTS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions

Optimize custom and COTS/SaaS solutions and report data query performance

Retain data sets and write custom ETL packages to extract transform data and load into various interfaces for internal and external agency use

Oversee the planning, research and write enterprise application architecture and coding standards

Ensure functional life cycle management standards are designed, documented, communicated and updated on a regular basis

Analyze the performance of the development and support activities and documented resolutions. Identify problem areas, and devise and deliver solutions to enhance quality of service to prevent future problems

Qualification

Salesforce developmentPaaS integrationSaaS integrationCOTS solutionsMicrosoft AzureData governanceSoftware Development Life CycleTeam leadershipTechnical mentorshipProblem-solvingCommunication skills

Required

Seven (7) years of professional information technology experience in applications development, including experience in designing, developing and maintaining applications using industry standard tools and development languages

An Associate's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology or other closely related field AND Five (5) years of professional information technology experience as listed above

A Bachelor's degree or above from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology or other closely related field AND Three (3) years of professional information technology experience as listed above

Two years of experience in leading a team on medium to large scale development efforts, as well as personnel engagement, development and accountability using facilitation and coaching techniques

Four years of experience in standard Software Development Life Cycle while implementing enterprise principles, concepts, practices, and current industry standards as they relate to application development

Four years of experience in integrating and interfacing PaaS, SaaS, and COTS solutions with different business systems

Four years of experience in working in a Microsoft-based environment

Preferred

Experience in Microsoft Azure adoption, governance, and administration

Experience in data governance and principles of data management and the data life cycle

Experience in collecting and evaluating information for impact analysis and documenting functional and non-functional requirements for RFIs, RFPs, solution design, and maintenance

Experience in Salesforce DX deployment life cycle

Experience in Salesforce product suite and it's customizations as a Salesforce developer and administrator

Experience in working in an environment where IT security best practices, policies, and procedures are required and audited, with having responsibility for enforcing and administering the policies and procedures

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package (including but not limited to Medical/Dental/Vision, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance etc.)

Paid Vacation, Leave, and Holidays

Tuition Waiver (enrollment in courses at state universities/colleges on a space availability basis - all or a portion of the tuition/fees may be waived for state employees)

Tuition reimbursement (courses taken with prior approval in order to further employee’s career development with the WSLCB)

Training and career development programs (including online courses and LinkedIn Learning)

A healthy work/life balance (this may include flexible/alternative work schedules and telework/remote work opportunities, when possible)

Employee Assistance Program - confidential program created to promote the health, safety and well-being of public service employees

Generous wellness program (we offer reimbursements for certain fitness related activities)

Onsite exercise facility (for employees working at WSLCB Headquarter Building in Olympia)

Infants at Work Program to promote parent and infant bonding, parental well-being and healthy infant development. Depending on your job duties, work location and supervisor approval, eligible employees who are new mothers, fathers or legal guardians can bring their infant (six weeks to six months) when they return to work

Free parking

Dependent care assistance allows the employee to save pre-tax dollars for a child or elder care expenses.

Washington State Employee Assistance Program promotes the health and well-being of employees.

State Employees are members of the Washington Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS).

Employees also have the ability to participate in the Deferred Compensation Program (DCP).

All state employees are covered by the federal Social Security and Medicare systems.

If you are employed by a government or not-for-profit organization, and meet the qualifying criteria, you may be eligible to receive student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year.

Full-time employees earn eight hours of sick leave per month.

Full-time employees accrue vacation leave at the rates specified in WAC 357-31-165.

Washington State supports members of the armed forces with 21 days paid military leave per year.

Most employees whose family member or household member dies, or for loss of pregnancy, are entitled to five (5) days of paid bereavement leave.