Senior Applications Developer (DOU Systems Support)

City of Sacramento•Sacramento, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position manages the department’s customer billing system, Oracle Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) system. The duties of this position include supporting the CC&B system production, working with business users, analysts, and other IT teams, designing, developing, and administering applications and systems to enhance business processes, documenting system procedures, mentoring junior staff and providing after-hour application support as needed. This position reports to the lead software application developer or an IT Supervisor. Under general supervision, the Senior Applications Developer performs a variety of professional, technical, and analytical duties involving 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. This is an advanced journey-professional classification populated with multiple incumbents. The Senior Applications Developer's work involves advanced concepts in the performance of their duties. The incumbents in this classification may provide oversight to other Applications Developers. The Senior Applications Developer is distinguished from that of the Applications Developer classification by the increased degree of difficulty of the work assignments, the greater level of business and technical knowledge required to perform the tasks and the potential consequences of errors by the incumbent. The work of this classification is distinguished from that of the Principal Applications Developer classification in that the latter classification is the highest level technical expert.

Requirements

Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
Five years professional experience in information technology in a multi-platform environment doing one or more of the following: application development, database management, GIS programming, system analysis/development, and website design/development, project management.
Principals and concepts of business process and software design; relational and distributed database technology; networks and communications; and project management.
Software development methodologies and life cycles.
Current trends in information technology software, business systems, hardware, networks, and communications.
Commonly used programming languages, databases, and operating systems on multiple hardware platforms.
Commercially available software, and application evaluation techniques.
Applications development and structured analysis methods; data modeling theory and methods; disaster planning and recovery techniques; debugging and error detection.
Software applications such as finance, human resources, utility billing, geographical information systems, and permitting.
Advanced level form, screen, and report design techniques.
The use of design and testing tools and methodologies
Project Management and planning tools
The use of various desktop tools
A variety of complex programming languages, databases and operating systems on multiple hardware platforms
The appropriate use of relational and distributed database technology
Maintaining good working relationships with a variety of city staff at all levels
Communicate effectively orally and in written format in a variety of situations and formats; make group presentations
Analyze and develop logical solutions and alternatives to problems
Train others; coordinate and facilitate work with others
Carry out multiple tasks, projects, and various other resources simultaneously

Nice To Haves

Enterprise level application administration and support in a medium to large team environment.
Programming experience, enterprise level software development, support and documentation with Microsoft Power BI, Structured Query Language (SQL), Java, Groovy, JavaScript, XML, HTML, python, batch scripts, Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF) configuration tools, and experience utilizing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process
Public utilities and experience in administering or supporting Linux, Windows, weblogic, Job scheduler, and Oracle Utilities Application Framework platform

Responsibilities

Plans and manages information technology related projects involving critical applications, large systems and sophisticated processes.
Provides team leadership, guidance, business, and technical expertise on assigned projects involving citywide computer systems.
Designs and/or creates database structures, data migration/conversion techniques for system(s) conversions or upgrades.
Monitors and tunes databases in order to obtain optimum performance.
Applies analytical and advanced design techniques in developing new programs or systems or modifying existing ones.
Codes and/or tests programs and resolve related problems in large, complex systems.
Provides technical guidance to lower-level IT personnel and contractors through training, mentoring, and coaching.
Performs other or related duties as assigned.
Supporting the CC&B system production.
Working with business users, analysts, and other IT teams.
Designing, developing, and administering applications and systems to enhance business processes.
Documenting system procedures.
Mentoring junior staff.
Providing after-hour application support as needed.