Senior Application Developer

Are you passionate about the management and development of natural resources? Do you understand that water is one of our most valuable and important resources? If you want to be part of a dedicated and talented team that works to responsibly manage North Dakota's water resources for a resilient future - then this employment opportunity might be for you. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is looking for a Senior Application Developer to serve the citizens of our state as a part of Team ND.

• fully paid family health insurance for employes and their families
• optional dental and vision coverage
• retirement plan options
• voluntary insurance programs
• accrued annual and sick leave

The State of ND offers 40 hours of new hire leave at the beginning of employment, in addition to standard monthly leave accruals. Team members who were previously employed with a state agency and are eligible for reinstatement, as defined in NDAC § .1, or who are granted an interagency transfer are not eligible for new hire leave.

The salary range for this position is $8500 – $9500 per month (dependent upon experience).

Location:

On-site
-Bismarck, ND

The purpose of this position is to architect, design, develop, implement, and maintain business applications that support the Department of Water Resources in carrying out various aspects of its mission. This position requires a thorough understanding of the agency’s complex scientific and business processes and the ability to apply that knowledge to use 4D, PostgreSQL, and other tools to develop, build, implement, and maintain the applications and data systems that support those processes.

This position is responsible for managing large scale complex custom business applications built using 4D and coordinating how all applications work as a system to facilitate the agency’s business workflow. This position provides critical subject matter insight and will serve as the primary liaison between other developers, end users, and leadership for complex, multi-component business applications. This role requires clear communication, effective requirement translation, and operational continuity across systems involving web dissemination, automated and manual data ingestion, document management workflows, and multiple user interfaces.

Maintain, develop, compile, and document the business applications developed by the Department of Water Resources.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop a deep understanding of the business processes of the agency.
• Coordinate processes and best practices across applications and developers.
• Assess the performance and effectiveness of existing applications and workflows, and recommend corrective action, redesign, or direction changes if needed.
• Manage existing 4D database applications.
• Build and maintain automated and manual data ingestion pipelines and document management workflows.
• Coding, compiling, and signing applications.
• Serve as liaison to other agency divisions for requirements gathering, stakeholder updates, and training on affected applications.
• Coordinate with application users to create documentation related to application intended use.

Implement and manage the agency’s AI coding tools and resources, ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and licensing requirements.

Responsibilities include:

• Implement and configure AI coding platforms.
• Maintain shared instructions, context files, and coding standards.
• Manage user access, onboarding, and permissions for AI coding platforms.
• Tracking AI tooling usage and related resource needs.

Maintain, develop, and document the web dissemination services related to the agency’s business applications, including implementing and testing for security vulnerabilities and remediating any…