Application Developer 4 (02-4078)

State of Alaska; Juneau (AK); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Telework options

Job summary

The State of Alaska is seeking an Application Developer 4 in Juneau, AK. This role focuses on leading HRIS/ERP initiatives, aligning system capabilities with payroll, regulatory requirements, and labor agreements across agencies.

As the statewide HRIS authority, you will guide departments and partners, oversee system upgrades, and ensure data integrity and compliance while supporting ongoing enterprise enhancements and payroll production cycles.

Qualifications

• Adaptability: Adjusts planned work to changing priorities and uses critical thinking.
• Computer Languages: Knowledge of languages and designing/maintaining programs.
• Customer/Quality Focus: Anticipates needs and delivers high-quality service.
• Project Management: Plans, schedules, and manages projects and resources.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the State of Alaska’s senior HRIS/ERP functional-technical expert across agencies.
• Translate HR, payroll, benefits and labor requirements into system configurations and design.
• Provide guidance to departments and partners to ensure data accuracy and compliance.
• Lead HRIS team members, contractors, upgrades, and payroll cycles for stable operations.
• Evaluate legislation and changes to advise on impacts and ensure long-term compliance.

Job description

Application Developer 4 (02-4078) in Juneau, AK

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing

• Serve as the State of Alaska’s senior-most HRIS/ERP functional-technical expert, responsible for ensuring the State’s Human Resource Information System meets complex operational, statutory, payroll, labor-relations, and regulatory requirements across all agencies.
• Lead enterprise-level HRIS initiatives by translating high-stakes HR, payroll, benefits, and labor-agreement requirements into system configuration, integrations, business rules, and functional design.
• Act as a statewide HRIS authority by providing expert guidance to departments, payroll offices, and external partners who exchange HR and payroll data with the State, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and system integrity.
• Lead HRIS technical and functional team members, contractors, system upgrades, enterprise enhancements, and statewide payroll production cycles to maintain stable, compliant system operations.
• Evaluate proposed legislation, bargaining-agreement changes, and statewide business-process updates to determine HRIS impacts and recommend strategic, feasible solutions that support long-term system reliability and statutory compliance.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

The Department Administration, Division of Finance provides the highest quality accounting, payroll, and travel services for the State of Alaska.

Our diverse team of accountants, analysts, technicians, and payroll specialists fosters a welcoming community dedicated to conducting the State's financial affairs with integrity, accountability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing

• Serve as the State of Alaska’s senior-most HRIS/ERP functional-technical expert, responsible for ensuring the State’s Human Resource Information System meets complex operational, statutory, payroll, labor-relations, and regulatory requirements across all agencies.
• Lead enterprise-level HRIS initiatives by translating high-stakes HR, payroll, benefits, and labor-agreement requirements into system configuration, integrations, business rules, and functional design.
• Act as a statewide HRIS authority by providing expert guidance to departments, payroll offices, and external partners who exchange HR and payroll data with the State, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and system integrity.
• Lead HRIS technical and functional team members, contractors, system upgrades, enterprise enhancements, and statewide payroll production cycles to maintain stable, compliant system operations.
• Evaluate proposed legislation, bargaining-agreement changes, and statewide business-process updates to determine HRIS impacts and recommend strategic, feasible solutions that support long-term system reliability and statutory compliance.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

The Department Administration, Division of Finance provides the highest quality accounting, payroll, and travel services for the State of Alaska.

Our diverse team of accountants, analysts, technicians, and payroll specialists fosters a welcoming community dedicated to conducting the State's financial affairs with integrity, accountability, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

Joining our team means contributing to work that directly supports every State of Alaska employee and strengthens public service across the state. We embrace a friendly, collaborative culture that values work/life balance and encourages you to grow your career as a statewide HRIS expert. Flexible work schedules and telework options are currently available, providing the freedom to tailor your work environment to your needs. You will have opportunities for ongoing professional development, mentorship, and leadership in high-impact, enterprise-level initiatives. Most importantly, your expertise will help drive improvements that benefit Alaska’s workforce and deliver meaningful value to the communities we serve.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

You will enjoy a workplace with a view of Juneau's beautiful downtown scenery. Located on the 10th floor of the State Office Building, you are within close walking distance to coffee shops, restaurants, and numerous nature trails.

Who We Are Looking For

We are interested in candidates who possess the following position-specific competencies:

• HR Information Systems: Knowledge of HR management concepts, principles, and practices related to identifying and analyzing HR processes, translating functional requirements into technical requirements, and delivering and maintaining HR information systems.
• Labor Relations: Knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, case law, principles, and practices related to negotiating and administering labor agreements.
• Employee Benefits: Knowledge of HR concepts, principles, and practices related to retirement, insurance, injury compensation, and other employee benefits programs.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demands and competing priorities in a changing environment.
• Computer Languages: Knowledge of computer languages and their applications to enable a system to perform specific functions and skill in designing, writing, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.
• Customer/Quality Focus: Anticipates, monitors, and meets the needs of customers and responds to them in an effective, appropriate manner. Demonstrates commitment to identifying customers’ apparent and underlying needs and continually seeks to provide the highest quality service and product to all customers.
• Project Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training in computer science or system analysis and/or progressively responsible professional experience analyzing, developing, testing, troubleshooting, or maintaining computer applications.

Special Note

A position may focus on working in one or more computer languages. Which language(s) will be specified when recruiting to fill the position.

"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

"Training" means the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, online, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission.

THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY

Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

At time of interview

please be prepared to provide:

• A list of three (3) professional references, if not already listed in your application.
• Copies of your most recent performance evaluations. Letters of recommendation from a current or former supervisor may be substituted.

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EEO STATEMENT

The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities, who require accommodation, auxiliary aides or services, or alternative communication formats, please call 1-800-587-0430 or [phone] in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at: P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

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WORKPLACE ALASKA APPLICATION QUESTIONS & ASSISTANCE

Questions regarding application submission or system operation errors should be directed to the Workplace Alaska hotline at 1-800-587-0430 (toll free) or [phone] if you are located in the Juneau area. Requests for information may also be emailed to [e-mail].

Contact Information

Steve Fritsche

IT Manager 3

Phone: [phone]

[e-mail]

Phone [phone] (Statewide toll-free number)
[phone] (Juneau and out-of-state callers)