IT Application Developer Senior/Specialist

State of Washington•Thurston County – Olympia, WA

12h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) Information Technology Services Division is seeking an IT Application Development - Senior/Specialist Supervisor. This role reports to the IT Policy & Planning – Senior Manager and is a senior Salesforce application, Azure integration, and working supervisor position. The primary responsibilities include technical application, integration, data development, and administration. The position is responsible for the design, development, enhancement, maintenance, and support of an enterprise Salesforce solution that integrates with PaaS, SaaS, and COTS solutions. The role provides expert technical services for designing, testing, implementing, and maintaining multi-dimensional information systems used for licensing, tax collection, and compliance services. These systems manage and assess data for enterprise-level decision-making. The position will also oversee and supervise a new team of 7 employees (data and application developers and administrators) within the platform solution team, providing leadership, strategic direction, and mentorship for secure Salesforce and Azure solutions. The role involves establishing and enforcing functional standards for application development, system administration, data development, and reporting, ensuring alignment with the agency’s Project Management Office (PMO) processes. This is an opportunity to grow a new team and work with highly visible systems impacting the agency, state, and multi-agencies.

Requirements

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.
OR An Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Web Devolvement, or other closely related field AND Five (5) years of professional information technology experience in applications development, including experience in designing, developing and maintaining applications using industry standard tools and development languages.
OR A Bachelor’s degree or above from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Web Devolvement, or other closely related field AND Three (3) years of professional information technology experience in applications development, including experience in designing, developing and maintaining applications using industry standard tools and development languages.
Four (4) years of information technology experience in applications development, including experience in designing, developing and maintaining applications using industry standard tools and development languages.
Four (4) 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 (4) years of experience in integrating and interfacing PaaS, SaaS, and COTS solutions with different business systems.
Four (4) years of experience in working in a Microsoft-based environment.
Two (2) years of experience in human resource management principles, practices, procedures, as well as personnel engagement, development and accountability using facilitation and coaching techniques.
Two (2) years of experience in leading a Salesforce application team on medium to large scale development efforts.

Nice To Haves

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 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.

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.
Effectively mentor, train, coach, counsel, and motivate staff to achieve consistently high performance.
Ensure that supervised staff have the information, resources, and authority to complete assignments and meet documented expectations.
Recognize staff accomplishments that meet division goals.
Consistently analyze staff performance against position requirements, applicable policies as well as section standards and practices imposing corrective or disciplinary action when required.
Consistently communicate division and agency decisions and priorities to staff, seeking input and feedback whenever possible.
Actively seek input from staff, colleagues and subject matter experts during the analysis of solutions that affect staff roles and responsibilities.
Oversees, 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.
Oversees, 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.
Oversee the planning, research and write enterprise application architecture and coding standards.
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.

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