Application Development Supervisor

State of Washington•Thurston County – Lacey, WA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) seeks to fill the role of IT Application Development Supervisor within the Information Services section of the Administrative Services Division to provide technical expertise and development support for the commission’s digital services, including enterprise application modernization, system maintenance, database integration, and the implementation of new software features. The position is responsible for designing, coding, testing, and deploying software components that align with the agency’s mission and statewide technical standards. This position has direct responsibility for managing the IT development and business analyst staff, and the section’s budget applicable to agency IT development and maintenance for all business applications. In addition, this position is a member of the agency’s extended leadership team. Although this is a hybrid opportunity, the successful incumbent must reside within Washington state and must be available to report to the Lacey, Washington headquarters building when needed. Local travel, mostly within Thurston County, may be required to attend training and meetings.

Requirements

Seven (7) years of consultative, administrative, or supervisory experience in application development and maintenance, application architecture, development tools and practices, database design and programming, and project management.
Advanced experience in Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, SQL, and JavaScript.
Experience or training in Agile development theory and practice.
Reside within Washington state.
The ability to take action to learn and grow: Takes responsibility for knowing their own strengths and weaknesses and uses their learning to make government programs and processes more efficient and effective to serve all in Washington.
The ability to take action to meet the needs of others: Flexible, adaptable, customer-service focused, and willing and able to empathetically respond to the unique needs of the people they work with and serve.
Accountability
Measuring Success and Improvement
Customer Focus
Results Focus
Communication Skills
Adaptability/Flexibility
Self-Development
Continuous Process Improvement

Nice To Haves

Intermediate experience in developing custom SharePoint 2016 (or later) applications.

Responsibilities

Provide professional-level software development, systems analysis, and technical support for the agency’s business applications and digital services.
Design, code, test, and implement software solutions that adhere to enterprise-wide policies, security standards, and architectural frameworks.
Contribute to the modernization of legacy systems, support the integration of new technologies, and ensure the continuous functionality of critical applications that align with agency and statewide operational goals.
Define the tools, practices, patterns, procedures, policies, and methods used by the application development staff to build and maintain applications, including mission-critical, high-risk applications.
Interview, hire, assign, direct work, coach, evaluate, and discipline IS staff engaged in application development and maintenance.
Manage the maintenance of application development tools and environments, and the transition of applications from legacy to modern environments.
Provide high-level and long-term designs for applications and their interfaces with internal and external services.
Apply advanced knowledge and discretion to develop and update applications; create web pages and forms; create data connections and queries; design and build object classes, methods, and properties; compose report definitions; design code solutions and database tables; build stored procedures; and create or modify other computer code using Visual Studio, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, and other tools and languages in a mixed Dynamics, SharePoint, .NET, and SQL environment to create and maintain custom applications needed by the agency.
Manage the section’s source code, product backlogs, and sprint planning in Azure DevOps.