IT PROFESSIONAL 4 - APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

State of Nevada (NV); Carson City (NV); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Taxation in Carson City seeks an IT Professional 4 to join our development team to maintain and enhance the Department’s Integrated Tax System through the Modernize Your Nevada Tax (MYNT) program. You will work with cross-functional teams to configure a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tax system and transform business processes, partnering with users throughout the development lifecycle.

Ideal candidates embrace continuous learning, engage openly with stakeholders, and deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or closely related field.
• Five years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position, with two years at the journey level or supervisory/project management capacity.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and develop tasks within established timelines.
• Document system changes and analyze issues, escalating risks as needed.
• Participate in code reviews and track progress on sprint-based work; adhere to development standards.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or MIS

Job description

The Department of Taxation in Carson City is seeking an IT Professional 4 to join our development team. This role is essential to maintaining and enhancing the Department’s Integrated Tax System through the Modernize Your Nevada Tax (MYNT) system. The incumbent will work with cross-functional teams to configure a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tax system, transform business processes, and partner closely with users throughout the development lifecycle to validate needs, communicate progress, and ensure solutions align with departmental objectives. We are looking for a professional who thrives in a dynamic environment, demonstrates initiative, and contributes positively to team culture. Candidates should embrace continuous learning, engage openly with stakeholders, and deliver high-quality technical outcomes. Ideal applicants are quick learners who adapt to evolving technologies and communicate effectively with both technical teams and end users. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, multitasking, and documentation skills are essential.

Key responsibilities will include translating business requirements into technical solutions, completing development tasks within established timelines, documenting system changes, analyzing issues, and applying sound judgment to recommend enhancements. Additional duties may include participating in code reviews, tracking progress on sprint-based work, escalating risks appropriately, and adhering to established development standards, workflows, and policies. This position also provides supervisory support through mentoring, workload balancing, and reinforcing development and quality standards for direct reports. Responsibilities include conducting employee evaluations, setting and communicating work performance standards, and ensuring staff follow established policies, documentation requirements, and development practices. The incumbent will also participate in cross‑training initiatives, supports special projects, evaluates new tools and technologies, prepares reports and metrics to guide decision‑making, and may provide after‑hours or on‑call support for critical production operations as needed.

Information Technology (IT) Professionals analyze, develop, implement, maintain, and modify computer operations, systems, networks, databases, applications, and/or information security. Incumbents may perform duties in one or more IT specialization areas depending on the needs of the agency. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position which may include systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, two years of which were at the advanced journey level or in a supervisory or project management capacity; OR Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in computer science, management information systems, or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience which may include systems administration, network administration, database administration, applications analysis and development, and/or information security, relevant to the duties of the position, two years of which were at the journey level in information security; OR two years of relevant experience as an IT Professional 3 in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Conduct detailed alternative analyses and determine end‑user requirements through consultation with end‑users, technicians, vendors, management, and others.

Maintain documentation related to the assigned IT specialization’s architecture, operations, and other records of work activities as required.

Maintain current knowledge of technological trends and advancements in the IT field as well as security management practices, laws, policies, and ethics.

Participate in recommending and justifying resource allocations and expenditure decisions, tracking, and recording expenditures, preparing purchase requests, and writing technical requirements for grant proposals.

Perform related duties as assigned.

Under administrative direction, incumbents either: 1) perform duties described at this level and supervise at least one IT Professional 3 or 2 or Master IT Professional; or 2) perform duties described at this level within the Enterprise IT Services (EITS) Division for enterprise‑level IT systems utilized by multiple departments; or 3) perform IT project management a preponderance of the time to include serving as the project leader; planning, organizing, and directing project activities; resolving design conflicts; data administration; resource allocation; contract negotiation; timeline development; critical path tracking; justifying the need for additional resources; and coordinating activities with other work units within and outside the organization as assigned; or 4) perform Information Security duties described at this level with at least 70% of the daily activities devoted solely to information security; or 5) perform technology planning and consultation duties within EITS. Technology planning and consultation duties include providing and/or performing: initial contact with agencies to assess their needs and develop their information technology plans; technical support for the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and software and hardware evaluations; guidance and technical assistance in completing appropriate Information Technology (IT) budget request forms; recommendations for feasible and cost effective technical solutions to customer agencies and reviewing agency IT project requests; research, information, testing and training for IT related issues to ensure viable, cost effective technology implementation; and enterprise‑wide planning, policy and research.

This job specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, skills and abilities from a previous level.

Applications Analysis and Development:

• access methods and file structures
• at least one formal systems design methodology
• principles of designing test procedures
• principles, practices and procedures required to develop, design, and implement information system-based solutions in a wide range of problem domains
• strengths and limitations of several general-purpose programming languages (in software-oriented positions)

Working knowledge of:

• project control techniques, including cost estimating and resource scheduling

General knowledge of:

• a network topology and protocol
• computer platforms, capabilities, and support software
• supervisory principles and techniques if applicable to the assignment
• telecommunications principles and support software

Ability to:

• assign work to and coordinate and train subordinate personnel
• extract logical commonalities among classes of problems
• select appropriate data structures and algorithms to achieve efficient problem representation and resolution
• translate data structures and algorithms

Skill in:

• problem solving, analysis and synthesis