IT App Dev - Sr/Spec (Application Supervisor)

The Office of Secretary of State (OSOS) offers some of the most unique and diverse job opportunities in state government. Its critical responsibilities include: ensuring a fair and accurate elections process; connecting Washingtonians through the power of libraries; protecting our important government records; and registering corporations and charities.

• Implements Azure environments and serves as the technical lead for day-to-day operations, issues and outages related to the CFD (Combined Fund Drive)
• Uses best practices and advanced Azure networking knowledge to ensure Azure virtual networks and endpoints are secure and accessed only by intended services and consumers.
• Implements and maintains Azure CI/CD pipelines ensuring confidence with deployments and feature rollouts.
• Diagnoses and troubleshoots internal and external Azure connectivity and system issues.
• Forward migrates applications to new PaaS offerings and/or Kubernetes to reduce operating expenses and improve overall system performance, stability, and operational requirements.
• Implements professional level software architectural design patterns, practices, and processes that ultimately provide the foundation for efficient, scalable, and durable software applications for primarily the CFD and OSOS internal and external websites
• Tasks include: Uses Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and other appropriate integrated development environments to develop, unit test, analyze, debug, and optimize application and database code.
• Develops new and supports existing applications written in a variety of languages and implemented on various platforms.
• Uses advanced knowledge of design patterns such as but not limited to: dependency injection, repository-service, and redux to ensure application code can be tested and remains adaptable to future business needs and technological advances.
• Implements easy to consume and understand RESTful services following REST principles.
• Remains current and up to date on web technologies including but not limited to: Angular 12 and reactive forms, typescript, CSS/CSS extensions, and ASP.NET.
• Writes, modifies, and tunes new and existing T-SQL stored procedures and queries ensuring applications perform optimally and creates/modifies tables to improve database queries.
• Applies advanced knowledge of the rxjs library to reduce code complexity, improve code supportability and improve application performance by solving trivial to very complex problems with a declarative approach.
• Ensures all new and current applications under this positions scope comply with WCAG 2.1 or later and meet or exceed all state and federal accessibility laws.
• Designs all user interface with a mobile first responsive approach.
• Ensures all web static content can be cached and served from a CDN to reduce bandwidth constraints and boost user experience and productivity.
• Uses advanced knowledge of the OSI model’s Layer 7 and how to optimize, route and load balance network traffic based off its contents.
• Employs industry standard application development tools to develop, code, test and implement changes related to the legacy Corporations/Charities applications, Agency Revenue System, and Payment Services or the enhancement of these mission critical business systems
• Provides consultation to management and stakeholders by translating complex technical issues in a non-­ technical and understandable manner and provides quick and effective remedial solution options.
• Supports small- and large-scale applications such as websites, windows services, web services, databases, and reports
• Reviews and approves code ensuring it follows industry best practices, uses appropriate coding conventions and styles, and adheres to OWASP secure coding practices.
• Identifies repetitive simple & complex processes and implements ways to automate them.
• Leads emergency issues and/or outages for the web team by identifying and managing them to resolution and ensuring stake holders are kept up to date with latest developments.
• Creates/maintains/tests disaster recovery plans for all applications supported by this position including but not limited to: CFD & Internal and external OSOS websites
• Ensures all supported applications meet or exceed applicable OCIO policies.
• Configures and maintains databases to ensure the consistent performance of agency applications
• Collaborates with the communications team on web content
• Ensures that website information is current and written using industry standard web development tools and procedures and meets the business needs of the office
• Works closely with the office communications team to ensure that all office web pages have consistent “look and feel”
• Formats content and graphics to function in multiple web browsers and mobile devices.
• Manages web development quality assurance (QA) and development environments.
• Processes complex web tasks from that cannot be resolved by lower-level staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Eight years of information technology experience in applications development
• One year supervisory experience performing: interviewing, hiring, training, assigning, and/or directing work and evaluating staff.
• Ability to read and write the English language
• Ability to efficiently use a personal computer and applicable software to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.

• Benefits
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness
• Federal Holidays
• Sick Leave
• Vacation (Annual Leave)
• Dependent Care Assistance
• Other insurance coverage

The Office of the Secretary of State (OSOS) offers some of the most unique and diverse job opportunities in state government. Its critical responsibilities include: ensuring a fair and accurate elections process; connecting Washingtonians through the power of libraries; protecting our important government records; and registering corporations and charities.