Technical Lead - Enterprise Applications (Hybrid, Raleigh)

State of North Carolina; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) IT division is seeking an Applications Systems Specialist I to deliver comprehensive business and system analysis, programming, and production support across enterprise applications.

You will work through the full software lifecycle and partner with clients, technical leads, and IT leadership to plan enhancements, ensure quality, and maintain security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT field with four years of progressive experience in business application consulting or development.
• Associate degree in computer science or IT field with five years of progressive experience in business application consulting or development.
• GED and eight years of experience in business application consulting or development.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, solution development, prototyping, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Develop, maintain, and integrate complex applications across multiple platforms.
• Gather and refine business and technical requirements; design new features and enhance existing applications.
• Conduct impact analyses for new requirements and support effort estimation and project planning.
• Lead and support functional testing, integration testing, and data conversion activities.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, user guides, and training materials.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and resolve system issues.
• Modernize legacy systems and replace unsupported technologies with modern solutions.
• Remediate security vulnerabilities within required timelines.
• Provide on-call and after-hours production support, including nightly batch cycles.

Skills

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

Event‑driven

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

Angular

Vue

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

GitHub Copilot

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/IT

Associate degree in computer science/IT

GED + 8 years experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) IT division is seeking an Applications Systems Specialist I to deliver comprehensive business and system analysis, programming, and production support across enterprise applications.

You will work through the full software lifecycle and partner with clients, technical leads, and IT leadership to plan enhancements, ensure quality, and maintain security standards.