Description

Our Mission: Keep Washington Safe and Working! Our Values: Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability.

Please Note: This recruitment will remain open until filled. Application review will begin immediately, and the position may be filled at any time. It is in the applicant’s best interest to apply early.

This position is responsible to design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, data reporting, data archival and data storage. The incumbent will set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. They will model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses. They will create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. They will also integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality.

This position serves as an advisor and expert IT technical consultant to the A&DM Supervisors/Technical Leads and will advise, develop, revise, and set direction and guidance on current and future applications. If this sounds like a good fit for you, apply now!

Duties

Some of what you’ll do:

• Application/ API Development, including:
  • Provide technical knowledge in the development and implementation of application program interfaces (API), and produce quality Development requirements, documentation, and strategies.
  • Innovatively design, unit test, and develop extensible
  • Performs unit and integration testing
  • Conducts functional and non-functional testing.
  • Understands dependencies across multiple applications when developing, maintaining, and making enhancements to applications.
  • Use think data first strategies
  • Resolves technology issues related to server environment, platform, software, and hardware requirements.
  • Define re-usable development practices, testing components, and data structures for extendable software delivery.
  • Provide creative designs
  • Troubleshoots and debugs applications, interfaces, and web services.
• Data Management, including:
  • Use data access security requirements working in collaboration with the Information Technology Security Office for Policy and Standards.
  • Ensure official agency records requirements are being met.
  • Accountable for integrity and quality of business data
  • Design, Develop and implement code for CRUD
  • Provide data architecture expertise for team managed systems and services
  • Identify and document security gaps for the team managed databases
• Customer Service, including:
  • The incumbent will consult and advise with several IT program areas to provide facilitation, clarification, and instigate cooperation amongst these peer groups
• Team Activities, including:
  • Independently works on all levels of assignments including the most complex problems, and provides guidance to lower level staff on complex issues.
  • Participates/leads scrum/status meetings to keep development staff in alignment with planned work.
  • Create estimate document that can be attached to the service request document that can be prioritized by business partners
  • Provide technology expertise to project work defined for product team enhancements.
  • Assist/Mentors Junior Developers with issues and/or tasks that they do not understand or have reached a situation where they are blocked and unable to continue.

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• 8 years or more *Information Technology experience professional experience related to application data development, application system development work.

Or

• Associates Degree in Information Technology specializing in data or application development and 6 years or more *IT professional experience

Or

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology and 4 years or more *IT professional experience

Or

• Masters in Information Technology, with computer science specialization and 3 years or more * IT professional experience

• Qualifying professional IT experience is defined as: performing analyzing, designing, developing, implementing, testing and maintaining the programming of computer software via applications, services and databases.

The 8 years of experience should include:

• 4 years of Experience in .Net. High technical expertise in data driven technologies and languages, specifically SQL, SSIS, SSMS, SSRS or equivalent in other specified languages or platforms.
• 4 Years’ experience building, enhancing and maintaining API’s
• 4 years of experience working with data development tools, platforms, products, and API’s:
• IDE – Visual Studio 2019 or comparable IDE
• Source Control – GIT or comparable
• Data Management tools – SQL SSMS or comparable

DESIRED:

• 4 years’ experience in Programming languages for MVC,
  JavaScript, ASP.Net, JQuery, JSON, XML, CSS.
• 4 years’ experience using Methodologies & Best Practices for Agile/Scrum, N-Tier, Accessibility and usability.
• 4 years’ experience using Frameworks, & Architectures knowledge in following areas: Web Services, SOAP Services, REST Services, WCF.

Supplemental Information

Things You Need To Know

To help you maintain a proper work-life balance, teleworking is one of the work schedule options for this position. L&I also offers flexible custom work schedules.

State employee who meet the qualifications will become eligible for a generous retirement package at the end of the employee’s career. Click on the “Benefits” tab to learn more.
At L&I, your voice matters. In addition, L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and security of Washington's 3.3 million workers. Take a look at this brief video and learn more about why L&I is an employer of choice.

Per Governor Inslee’s Directive 22-13.1, state employees must be fully vaccinated effective November 4, 2022. Providing proof of being fully vaccinated is a condition of employment and your vaccine status will be verified by Human Resources prior to your first day of employment. Please contact Steve Camerer at cste235@lni.wa.gov if you need information on medical or religious accommodation.

For this position, telework is permitted full-time. The assigned duty station for this position is Tumwater, Washington.

Application process

We will contact the top candidates directly to interview for this position. Because we base the selection on information provided by you, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities that address the mandatory and desirable qualifications described in the announcement.

Please include the following documents with your application:

• 
  A cover letter describing specific qualifications.
• A current resume detailing applicable experience and education.
• A list of at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.

Please do not attach or place any information about your vaccination status, including listing the governor’s mandate as a reason for leaving employment, within the application, resume, or cover letter. If you do, we will have to reject your application to safeguard others from receiving your confidential information. You will have to remove the confidential information before you can apply again.

Other information

• A job offer is contingent upon completion of a background check that includes a criminal record review.
• For positions requiring travel, you must have a valid unrestricted driver's license and have insurance if driving a privately owned vehicle on state business.
• This position is represented by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE).
• Candidates who are offered a job with L&I must possess work authorization that does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa now or in the future.
• The Department of Labor & Industries complies with the employment eligibility verification requirements of the federal employment eligibility verification form, I-9. The selected candidate must be able to provide proof of identity and eligibility to work in the United States consistent with the requirements of that form on the first day of employment.
• Please note: L&I may use this announcement to fill multiple permanent and/or non-permanent positions.
• IT position applicants selected to move forward in this hiring process will receive an email skills assessment invitation within 3 weeks of your application being accepted. An applicant may complete the assessment when ready, but the invitation to complete the assessment will expire 5 days after the invitation was sent. Once you start the assessment, you will be required to complete it. You cannot start your assessment and then come back to it later. Please look in your email inbox or spam as these invitations are sent by CodeSignal.

Did You Know?

Washington is America's Top State to live, play, and work, according to U.S. News (2021). Join the L&I team and enjoy all the Evergreen State has to offer.

In addition to offering a positive balance between life and work, L&I provides one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation. We also believe your voice matters. We value our employees and their work-life balance by encouraging flexible schedules. L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and security of Washington's 3 million workers.
Veterans Preference

Applicants wishing to claim Veterans Preference should attach to their application a copy of their DD-214 (Member 4 copy), NGB 22, or signed verification of service letter from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Please blackout any personally identifiable data such as Social Security numbers. For further information, contact L&I’s Jobs@lni.wa.gov.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Employer

L&I employees come from all walks of life. We strive to hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We believe in the importance of recognizing the value each of us contribute to the success of the agency mission. Having a diverse workforce is this agency’s greatest resource of strength and knowledge. It is through the combination of talents and abilities that we can pursue finding effective measures to provide the best customer service. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone and we strongly mean everyone.

The State of Washington is an equal opportunity employer. Persons with a disability who need accommodation in the application process or testing process, or those needing this announcement in an alternative format, may call 360-902-5700. TTY users should first call 711 to access the Washington Relay Service.

You are welcome to include the name and pronoun you would like to be referred to in your materials and we will honor this as you interact with our award-winning diverse and inclusive organization.

For more Information

If you have any questions regarding this announcement, program, or the agency please contact Steve Camerer at steve.camerer@lni.wa.gov