FASS IT Application Development - Manager

Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen. Are you ready to be an advocate for change? Can you picture yourself steering a team through uncertainty, transition, and growth? Do you get energized by modern application frameworks like MACH? Are you eager to help move an agency from legacy monoliths to nimble microservices that truly meet business needs? If you answered yes to these questions, the technology team at the Department of Ecology wants to meet you.

• Manage, shape, and oversee all things information management for FASS.
• Ensure FASS applications are maintained, modernized, and enhanced to meet evolving business needs.
• Work together with Financial Services Managers, guiding developers who support our agency’s enterprise-wide financial systems.
• Drive adoption of Agile, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and other modern development practices that boost collaboration, increase deployment speed, and make our processes leaner.
• Serve as the go-between for business administrators and application teams, making sure communication is clear, effective, and forward-looking.
• Advocate for automation, AI-powered optimization, and self-service analytics to empower smarter, faster, data-focused decisions across the agency.

• Nine years of experience and/or education as described below: Experience: Progressively responsible experience in enterprise software, including work in areas like IT consultation, systems development, systems analysis, database management, technical support troubleshooting, project management, or server management.
• Leadership & Delivery: 2+ years in a supervisory, management, or team lead role, including leading Agile or hybrid software teams with tools like Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Modernization & Cloud: Hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems (e.g., migrating to web or cloud-native platforms) and building enterprise applications in the cloud, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Full Lifecycle Development: 3+ years across the full application lifecycle—planning, requirements, development/configuration, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Technical Expertise: Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, secure coding (OWASP, PII protection, compliance), and modern architectures (API-first, microservices, containers).
• Integration & Operations: Experience with application/data integrations, cross-functional team collaboration, vendor management, and production support/incident management.
• Quality & Accessibility: Familiarity with WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards, inclusive design, managing technical debt, refactoring code, and shaping long-term modernization roadmaps.

• Flexible/Hybrid work arrangement
• Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
• Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)
• Vacation, Sick, and other Leave
• 11 Paid Holidays per year
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• Tuition Waiver
• Long Term Disability & Life Insurance
• Deferred Compensation Programs
• Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAP)
• Flexible Spending Arrangement (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Commute Trip Reduction Incentives

As the State of Washington’s environmental protection agency, we are deeply committed to protecting, preserving, and enhancing Washington’s environment for current and future generations. Joining Ecology means becoming part of a team dedicated to protecting and sustaining healthy land, air, water, and climate in harmony with a strong economy.