IT Application Development – Sr/Spec (ITAD-SS/ETS)

State of Washington • Thurston County – Olympia, WA

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

Help build the future of Washington's healthcare systems as a Senior .NET Project Lead at the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA). Lead full-stack development for the Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System from architecture to production. All HCA employees will apply an equity lens to their work, which may include but is not limited to all analyses of core business and processes. The Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) division develops and provides all Information Technology services and business solutions throughout the HCA and externally with partner agencies (DSHS, DOH, and Health Benefits Exchange, L&I, DOC). HCA has 114 solutions, applications, and databases in its IT Portfolio. This position serves as a professional, technical senior/specialist and project lead for cross-functional (full stack) .NET application and database development for ADS. As a project lead for the Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System project, this position leads and provides technical expertise, direction and technical oversight for all: front-end, middle-tier and, back-end development activities. This position will provide support and maintenance work once the system has launched into production. This ADS project lead position serves as HCA’s applications architect for initial ideation, development, support, and enhancements. The position is responsible for leadership and advanced-level applications development expertise for programmers. Responsibility includes all aspects of software development lifecycle (SDLC), resulting in database software solutions in order to support a broad organizational scope with focus on development and deployment of systems supporting: The agency’s 13 divisions’ IT business solutions, specifically the Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System project. Maintaining and providing support for the Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System once it has been operationalized. Mission-critical functions for HCA line-of-business programs that operate 24x7 and have Federal and/or State mandates. Legal or financial time-sensitive customer and public support functions. High-impact systems that span agency-wide, multiple agency, or state-wide and public-facing applications that serve Washington state residents that seek to purchase a firearm.

Requirements

• Five (5) years’ experience with applications development with Microsoft Visual Studio, C# and .NET technologies, including software design patterns, Microsoft SQL Server, including relational database design and modeling, writing TSQL queries, developing Microsoft SQL Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Integration Services solutions.
• Two (2) years’ experience with Software Development Lifecycle Management (SDLC).
• One (1) year experience in addressing application development security protocols and standards.
• One (1) year experience being directly involved with Agile / Scrum methodology practices.
• Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or an IT related field. Three (3) years of progressive (continuing to grow professionally) professional IT experience such as: Consulting, analyzing, designing, programming, installing and/or maintaining computer software applications, hardware, or network infrastructure equipment. Directing IT projects. Providing customer or technical support in IT. Administering or supervising staff who performed work in any of these IT disciplines.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or IT related field or equivalent. Five (5) years of the experience listed above.
• Three (3) years as a Journey Level IT Professional in State Government performing the experience listed above.
• Nine (9) years performing the experience listed above.
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
• Working-level knowledge of serving as a project lead and associated responsibilities.
• Advanced knowledge, skill and ability in relational database design and development.
• Advanced knowledge, skill and ability in C# programming and ASP.NET solution development.
• Knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint Online and beyond, Azure DevOps Server 2020 and beyond, Internet Information Server 10 and beyond, HTML 5, CSS, Agile/Scrum, Lean and ITIL concepts.
• Proficient with the software development life cycle (SDLC), developing and documenting user requirements, project charters, testing strategies and user test scripts.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing, developing, testing, implementing, and managing large scale development and integration projects.

Responsibilities

• Independently and with considerable discretion, apply highly specialized technical skills and senior/specialist knowledge in application and systems development to design, develop, test, implement, and modify/maintain the database and model-driven application architecture solutions for high-risk, high-visibility multi-dimensional web-enabled information systems built with Microsoft C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Razor, Entity Framework, LINQ, JavaScript/JQuery, Bootstrap, Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS, Transact-SQL, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Power BI and RESTful API web technologies.
• Apply comprehensive advanced level software development and analysis skills to evaluate software architecture patterns, object-oriented design concepts and abstraction techniques, coding languages, view model technologies, OLTP database modeling and design, query languages, entity modeling, performance tuning, and security best practices and standards, to make sound solution decisions for building information technology systems.
• Exercise advanced technical proficiency in utilizing multiple and disparate technology system Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to perform systems integration for development of end-to-end workflow solutions to meet strategic service-oriented agency automation needs.
• Serve as a primary software architect and technical consultant on the architectural design of complex multi-user agency-wide and public-facing database application systems, application programming interfaces, new data models, including relational database design and normalization, and data integration solutions.
• Provide guidance on industry direction and new capabilities/emerging technologies to determine applicability to the information systems that are supported.
• Lead technical demos of research and development test projects to demonstrate proof of concepts.
• Provide support and maintenance work once the system has launched into production.
• Serve as HCA’s applications architect for initial ideation, development, support, and enhancements.
• Provide leadership and advanced-level applications development expertise for programmers.
• Responsible for all aspects of software development lifecycle (SDLC), resulting in database software solutions in order to support a broad organizational scope with focus on development and deployment of systems supporting: The agency’s 13 divisions’ IT business solutions, specifically the Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System project.
• Maintaining and providing support for the Medicaid and CHIP Quality Rating System once it has been operationalized.
• Support mission-critical functions for HCA line-of-business programs that operate 24x7 and have Federal and/or State mandates.
• Support legal or financial time-sensitive customer and public support functions.
• Support high-impact systems that span agency-wide, multiple agency, or state-wide and public-facing applications that serve Washington state residents that seek to purchase a firearm.

Benefits

• Meaningful work with friendly co-workers who care about those we serve
• A clear agency mission that drives our work and is person-centered
• A healthy work/life balance, including alternative/flexible schedules and mobile work options.
• A great total compensation and benefit package
• A safe, pleasant workplace in a convenient location with restaurants, and shopping nearby.
• Free parking!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior