IT Application Development - Sr/Spc

State of Washington•Thurston County – Tumwater, WA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Office of Secretary of State (OSOS) is seeking an IT Application Development Senior/Specialist for a permanent, full-time position. This role reports to an IT Application Development Supervisor within the IT Division and is responsible for the design, maintenance, and modernization of systems and services supporting the Corporations & Charities Division. The position will also provide technical support for OSOS office core development team interfaces and systems, including internal and external design, modification, and maintenance of data and user interfaces. The incumbent will ensure OSOS IT systems align with IT Policy, standards, and external regulations for security, privacy, compliance, and best practices. Where best practices do not exist, this position will devise strategies to support technical work for applications, data, and services. These duties impact every division and mission of the Office.

Requirements

Total of eight years of information technology experience in applications development, including experience in designing, developing, and maintaining applications using industry standard tools and development languages, developing, designing, and maintaining databases using MS SQL or related relational database tools and software, leading up to architecture and development in cloud infrastructures, such as Azure or AWS, using modern integrated development environments (IDEs) integrated with version control and DevOps pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps).
OR An associate’s degree in technology or related field with six years of Information Technology experience.
OR A bachelor’s degree in technology or related field with four years of Information Technology experience.
OR A master’s degree in technology or related field with two years of Information Technology experience.
OR any combination of education and experience that is equal to 8 years. (Education is credited towards experience on a year for year basis)
Information Technology Experience is the progressive technical expertise of enterprise solution design and engineering in any of the following functional & technical IT domain areas: Software development & engineering (web, mobile, desktop, and embedded systems).
Cybersecurity (network, asset, risk)
Cloud computing & DevOps: (cloud architecture, management, and workflow automation)
Data Science, AI & Analytics (big data, machine learning, data mining, and AI systems)
Network administration (design and support)
Quality Assurance (QA testing for failures, missed features and quality)
Database Administration (managing and securing data stores, tuning & optimization)
Emerging Tech

Nice To Haves

Experience in developing applications in the Microsoft.Net environment, C#, ASP.NET, MVC, .NET Core, AngularJS, Angular, VB.NET, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, jQuery, TSQL, PowerShell, and Software Defined Storage.
1 year of experience working with Microsoft Azure administration.
Knowledge of database structures and dataflow.
Network architecture and technical system communication.
Experience working directly with stakeholders of applications.

Responsibilities

Provides technical expertise in daily operations within application, data, and cloud development engineering to support applications, systems, services, data and hardware infrastructures for OSOS within the IT Division.
Serves as the technical lead for day-to-day development operations, issues and outages related to applications, data and services within OSOS for the CCD Division.
Diagnoses and triages cloud application development issues, working to find root cause, and corrects the problem.
Defines designs, and documents standards and best practice uses for application and data development to be used by the team.
Researches and identifies new and modern methods for continued best practice for application and data development for continued improvement and modernization over applications, systems, services, data, and hardware infrastructures.
Provides knowledge and expertise to other application core team developers in the use of various technical tools, integrated development environments, test driven development patterns and practices, and supporting frameworks.
Provides code review, version control management, deployment and release management process and guidance using ITIL, Agile, and other frameworks that best serve the applications, systems, services, data and hardware infrastructures for OSOS, and the development community responsible for this work.
Ensures applications are logically and functionally tested by directing development engineers to areas where testing is needed or lacking.
Creates, and oversees the maintenance and testing of disaster recovery planning for all application ecosystems supported by this position.
Coaches and mentors of all levels of development and data management engineers.
Collaborates with the architecture team to design and develop and implement architecture standards for applications across the full Software Development Lifecycle within the CCD Division book of business.
Implements professional level architectural design patterns, practices, and processes that ultimately provide the foundation for efficient, scalable, and durable application ecosystems for the Corporations and Charities Division.
Ensures application lifecycle management standards are well designed, documented, communicated, and continuously updated.
Ensures all new and current applications under this positions scope comply with regulation, policy, and standards of architecture necessary to safeguard, protect privacy, and meet cybersecurity provisions to meet or exceed all state and federal laws and rules.
Defines and implements architected designs focused on user centered approach, accessibility, and device agnostic usability.
Effectively consults with leadership and business partners in plain language for complex technical work.
Reviews and approves code to ensure alignment with industry best practices, consistent coding standards, and OWASP, Nist, CIS, etc secure coding guidelines, while identifying repetitive engineering workflows and implementing automation to eliminate manual effort, improve reliability, and increase development velocity across teams.
Provides mentorship and technical guidance to lower-level application developers, offering support on coding practices, troubleshooting, and adherence to development standards whenever needed.
Maintains clear, well-documented, and timely communication with leadership and stakeholders regarding application issues, work stoppages, outages, and incidents, providing proactive status updates and outlining the steps taken toward resolution to ensure transparency and smooth operations.
Establishes and documents best practices, standards, and guidelines to support consistent and scalable process improvements across the organization.
Develops prototypes, Proof of Concept (POC), and pilot solutions to validate and document new approaches before full implementation.
Evaluates emerging tools, platforms, and methodologies to determine their applicability and potential benefits for developers and business users.
Partners with cross functional teams to ensure new methods integrate smoothly with existing systems and align with strategic goals.
Collaborates with supervisors, architects, business partners, peer developers and business analysts in a professional manner to define, design, and implement key features that enhance overall user experience and deliver meaningful value.
Researches, designs, and implements new technologies, processes, and methods following SOLID coding principles and SDLC best practices to solve complex problems with increased ambiguity.
Analyzes existing workflows to identify inefficiencies, gaps, and opportunities for improvement, recommending innovative solutions that streamline operations.
Provides training, guidance, mentorship and knowledge sharing sessions to help fellow developers and business users to understand and adopt new processes effectively.
Other duties as assigned.