Principal Applications Developer (DOU Systems Support) THIS POSTING WILL BE OPEN UNTIL FILLED Application cut-off dates are the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. With supervisor approval, incumbents may be eligible for intermittent remote work; however, they must physically reside within the Sacramento region or have the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice. The City of Sacramento is seeking a Principal Applications Developer with sound project management and technical experience. This position will be responsible for leading a team of applications developers in providing support and complex innovative solutions to enhance the Department of Utilities critical customer care and billing system; Oracle Customer Care and Billing (CC&B). This is a highly technical level position operating in a fast-paced environment, and will be responsible for the development, configuration, and technical support efforts to design, develop, and administer applications and systems to enhance business processes, document system procedures, and provide after-hours application support when needed. The incumbent will be expected to work under tight timelines and competing priorities. IDEAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT The ideal candidate will have advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with enterprise business application system administration, software support, development and documentation, business process analysis, configuration, programming and project management, preferably in a public utility environment. The ideal candidate will also have the ability manage and coordinate city-wide projects for all application functionality requirements, including system integration and software customizations to meet the needs of the business across different departments and divisions. They will have experience supporting new enhancements and system/data reporting requirements and with making recommendations for implementing new system modules to better support the organization's mission. The ideal candidate will have the ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and tactfully with City staff at all levels, both verbally and in writing. They will have experience mentoring and overseeing the work of other staff. Under general direction, the Principal Applications Developer performs a variety of high-level professional, technical, and analytical duties involving research, evaluation, planning, requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, administration and support of new and existing small and large scale systems and databases in a multi-platform environment that includes mainframe, client server, distributed and web based systems. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS This is an expert professional-level classification populated with multiple incumbents. Principal Application Developers provide the highest level of business and technical expertise and knowledge in the performance of their duties. Incumbents are the recognized experts in their fields. The Principal Applications Developer is distinguished from Senior Applications Developer by the increased degree of difficulty of the work assignment, the greater level of business and technical knowledge required to satisfactorily perform the tasks, and the potential consequences of errors. The Principal Applications Developer provides project management and technical leadership, training and informal work direction to lower-lever Applications Developers. The Principal Applications Developer is distinguished from Information Technology Supervisor in that the latter is the first full supervisory level while the former, which may supervise as an incidental assignment, is the highest-evel technical expert. SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED General direction is provided by and Information Technology Supervisor, Information Technology Manager or other higher-level management staff. Responsibilities may include supervision of technical, administrative staff or project teams.