Mission-Critical IT Developer — Azure & DevOps (Hybrid)

Washington State Department of Transportation; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is seeking a Developer in Olympia to design, develop, test, and maintain mission-critical applications. You will support background checks and case management while ensuring data security and compliance with state and federal requirements.

Join a team that works across the full software development life cycle, collaborating with DevOps to automate deployments and mentoring junior developers.

Qualifications

• Four years of information technology experience such as consulting, analyzing, designing, programming, installing and/or maintaining computers software applications, hardware, telecommunications, or network infrastructure equipment; directing projects; providing customer or technical support in information technology; or administering or supervising staff who performed work in any of these information technology disciplines.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or computer information systems may substitute for two years of experience.
• AND
• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
• Additional Qualifications
• Experience using Azure DevOps to create and manage integrated build definitions and source code branches, merging code from different branches as well as deployment procedures.
• Twelve (12) months of professional experience developing, testing or maintaining data driven applications written in an object-oriented programming language.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience developing web applications using Visual Studio, Azure DevOps , C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, Azure Integration Services, and Microsoft Power Platform.
• Experience with Agile, and Iterative development processes.
• Experience with AI Assisted tools (GitHub Copilot).

Responsibilities

• Participates in iterative process improvements regarding the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Design and develop interfaces with business partners, including state agencies as well as third party organizations.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure regular, controlled deployment of updates to existing application driven applications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex applications, interface and data-related issues.
• Ensures application security and privacy requirements are met.
• Monitors the health and functionality of applications, reacts appropriately to operational issues.
• Embraces agile software development principles and values.
• Recommends, designs, and develops technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain Microsoft Power Platform, Azure Integration Services, .NET Framework MVC web application and Restful API's.
• Mentors and coaches less-senior developers.
• Perform complex system application software testing steps.
• Create website unit test projects.
• Build test classes and methods.

Skills

Azure DevOps

C#

SQL

JavaScript

HTML

ASP.NET MVC

RESTful APIs

Power Platform

Azure Integration Services

GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer information systems

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft Power Platform

Job description

The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) is seeking a Developer in Olympia to design, develop, test, and maintain mission-critical applications. You will support background checks and case management while ensuring data security and compliance with state and federal requirements.

Join a team that works across the full software development life cycle, collaborating with DevOps to automate deployments and mentoring junior developers.