Application Developer II / Emergency Appointment Homelessness

County of Los Angeles•Los Angeles, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Mental Health is seeking qualified candidates to fill emergency Application Developer II vacancies related to the homelessness crisis. Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment. Before the end of your initial work period, you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100%. Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment to Application Developer II.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field and two (2) years of recent experience coding, testing and debugging application programs.
One (1) year of experience at the level of Los Angeles County class of Application Developer I.
Three (3) years of recent experience coding, testing and debugging application programs.
Recent is defined as experience accrued within the last five (5) years.
A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.

Responsibilities

Codes, tests and debugs application programs to create new business applications and interfaces or maintains/modifies existing business applications according to program specifications.
Develops program specifications.
Performs unit or modular testing and integration testing for new or modified applications.
Writes and executes programs to extract, transform, and load data for system conversions.
Prepares technical documents, user manuals, and help files.
Identifies, analyzes, records, tracks, and resolves application problems.
Develops functional requirements, as needed.
Installs application software, as needed.
Researches application development tools and methodologies and makes recommendations to management, as needed.
Assists in the development of solicitation documents including requests for information, requests for proposals, requests for quotes, and statements of work, as needed.
Assists in reviewing vendor performance, as needed.
Assists in database management related activities for a specific application, as needed.