Application Development Lead, #W5003

Virginia Information Technologies Agency•Richmond, VA

3d•$132,000 - $139,000•Onsite

About The Position

At the Virginia Department of Social Services, we put people at the center of everything we do. We believe that every Virginian can live a life of dignity and that all voices, ideas and experiences contribute greatly to our pursuit of excellence. Inspired by continuous improvement, we commit ourselves to listening, learning and cultivating environments of trust, respect and positive engagement. Together, we are mission-driven, eager to achieve, and passionate about bringing the best of who we are to those we serve. We design and deliver high-quality human services that help Virginians achieve safety, independence and overall well-being. We are a $2 billion agency – one of the largest in the Commonwealth of Virginia – partnering with 120 local departments of social services and 31 community action agencies, along with faith-based and non-profit organizations, to promote the well-being of children, adults, and families statewide. We proudly serve alongside 1,650 (state) and 12,200 (local) human services professionals throughout the Social Services System, who ensure that thousands of Virginia’s most vulnerable citizens have easy access to the services and benefits available to them. Application Development Lead develops and maintains the ITS application development catalogue offerings such as: MS Power Apps, JAVA, and ORACLE solutions requiring advanced analysis, research and design. Work on small to large complex projects that require advanced skill in multiple technical environments to produce integrated solutions to resolve highly complex technical and business issues to serve a diverse audience with varied proficiencies. The lead position provides technical guidance to Application Developers. The Application Development Lead supports analysis and development of application design, performance monitoring, systems analysis, and quality assurance and integration methodologies. The Developer designs, writes, tests, debugs, troubleshoots, and leverages division approved open source/new/COTS/reused source code across the enterprise and guides other developers in these functions. Application Development Lead plays a lead role in project management with analysis and research on technical efforts requiring development resources; communicating problems & project risks; designs technical requirements for the project managers/teams; guides and directs work on multiple projects and ensures proper usage as part of the design efforts in building a system to be put into production. Application Development Lead works closely with Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure & Operations teams and guides other developers to ensure the solutions developed conform to the prescribed architecture; follows VDSS approved standards and processes; ensures solutions are compliant with all security protocols and guidelines; and seeks/obtains input from Enterprise Architecture on items that are architecturally significant and thereby affect development design/approach/solution. The Application Development Lead prepares system documents and constructs code to deliver quality, cost effective and timely deliverables according to the department’s lifecycle development approach. This includes, but not limited to: • Clarifying requests for solutions, enhancements or system changes. • Performing estimate analysis on requests, tickets or proposals. • Analyzing user requirements, documents and requests to develop effective automated solutions. • Maintaining production code, programs and supporting test plans. The Application Development Lead will provide direct support to ITS and other developers.

Requirements

Experience working extensively in all phases of a project development life cycle from Requirements analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Documentation, Standard reviews and Maintenance support.
Experience leading teams in an agile or similar development environment.
Experience developing through all phases of Project Life Cycle: Analysis, Design, Build, Testing, and Deployment using Iterative, AGILE and waterfall models of project development.
Experience with RDBMS, SQL, Java Script, jQuery, Ajax, and/or XML / XSLT, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, JSON.
Experience using defect tracking and source code utilities, such as: GIT CI/CD, JIRA and/or Rational software or equivalent toolset.
Experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design, UML
Experience in the design and development of SOA for publishing as well as consuming web services, development of Workflows for exposing Web services using SOAP and Restful.
Experience working on relational databases (Oracle, MS SQL Server)
Experience on Eclipse-Based IDE’s including Rational Application Developer, Visual Studio, VS Code or equivalent
Experience with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Active Directory or similar directory services.
Experience in using SQL Developer and working with SQL IDEs
Ability to lead others by providing technical guidance and establishing priorities.
Ability to perform advanced application design with a high degree of independence
Ability to perform dynamic integration of emerging technology and re-integrate into existing applications
Ability to develop domain and data models and prototypes for application design
Ability to validate relational database design schemas and models
Ability to determine maintenance requirements for an application
Skilled in the interpretation of application program specifications and requirements analysis documents
Ability to incorporate security requirement into an application
Ability to create and test prototypes as part of the development process
Ability to test and validate applications by developing unit test scripts to interpret test results, make recommendations and support user acceptance testing
Ability to implement, support and maintain applications by developing a release and training plan
Ability to transition and application to a new system, infrastructure or cloud solution
Ability to evaluate, implement and document application enhancements
Ability to provided production support to ITS application solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A thorough understanding of the SDLC development lifecycle including post-production implementation tasks/deliverables.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Enterprise Service Bus or iPaaS (Integration Platform-as-a-Service) such as: Mulesoft or IBM IB (integration bus)
Knowledge of Rules Engine such as IBM ODM (Operational Decision Manager) or Corticon BRMS (Business Rules Management Engine
Hands on work experience in various platform technologies such as Apex, JAVA, .net code development
Experience in systems multi-tiered platforms such as MS PowerApps, Salesforce and/or PEGA
Experience in documenting the design and construction of system using UML diagrams and other artifacts
Experience in presenting artifacts to the enterprise or senior management
Experience in production support of systems, including analyzing and correcting trouble reports, managing production support processes.

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains the ITS application development catalogue offerings such as: MS Power Apps, JAVA, and ORACLE solutions requiring advanced analysis, research and design.
Works on small to large complex projects that require advanced skill in multiple technical environments to produce integrated solutions to resolve highly complex technical and business issues to serve a diverse audience with varied proficiencies.
Provides technical guidance to Application Developers.
Supports analysis and development of application design, performance monitoring, systems analysis, and quality assurance and integration methodologies.
Designs, writes, tests, debugs, troubleshoots, and leverages division approved open source/new/COTS/reused source code across the enterprise and guides other developers in these functions.
Plays a lead role in project management with analysis and research on technical efforts requiring development resources; communicating problems & project risks; designs technical requirements for the project managers/teams; guides and directs work on multiple projects and ensures proper usage as part of the design efforts in building a system to be put into production.
Works closely with Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure & Operations teams and guides other developers to ensure the solutions developed conform to the prescribed architecture; follows VDSS approved standards and processes; ensures solutions are compliant with all security protocols and guidelines; and seeks/obtains input from Enterprise Architecture on items that are architecturally significant and thereby affect development design/approach/solution.
Prepares system documents and constructs code to deliver quality, cost effective and timely deliverables according to the department’s lifecycle development approach.
Clarifies requests for solutions, enhancements or system changes.
Performs estimate analysis on requests, tickets or proposals.
Analyzes user requirements, documents and requests to develop effective automated solutions.
Maintains production code, programs and supporting test plans.
Provides direct support to ITS and other developers.

Benefits

Excellent health and life insurance benefits
Pre-tax spending accounts
State funded Short and Long Term Disability
Paid holidays
Vacation
Tuition assistance
Free wellness programs
State retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching

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