AFS Developer IT Systems Technical Specialist

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults.

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults.

We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve. At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind.

This is a full-time contractual position.

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Maryland Department of Human Services

Office of Technology for Human Services

1100 Eastern Blvd

Baltimore, MD, 21221

The primary purpose of the AFS Developer is to support all technical aspects, maintenance, and optimization of the agency’s enterprise software portfolio, focusing primarily on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution. Embedded within the Operations Digital Solutions Pillar of the Technical Support Team, this role serves as the critical bridge between high-level technical development—designing custom solutions and automation using and Power Automate—and day-to-day operational stability to ensure 24/7 system reliability.

• Design, develop, and implement major modifications using X++ and AOT elements.
• Develop Microsoft Power Automate and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to streamline operational workflows and reduce manual intervention.
• Design, test, and maintain robust software solutions using .NET, C#, X++, Visual Studio tailored to specific business needs.
• Develop and support Power BI integrations and SSRS report customization to provide executive-level visibility for the PMO and DCIO.
• Develop major and minor modifications using best practices with the D365 framework.

Experience:

Seven years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software.

• Candidates may substitute graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and thirty credit hours from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Technology, Management Information Systems or other information technology-related field to include coursework in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology for four years of the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate and one year of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software for four years of the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute experience operating computer systems; or scheduling, controlling input and output to process data on computer systems; or evaluating, implementing and maintaining computer hardware and software; or converting data from project specifications by developing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages on a year-for-year basis for a high school education.
• Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Computer Information Technology, Management Information Systems or other information technology-related field to include coursework in application, communication, database or operating systems software technology and three years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining application, communication, database or operating systems software for the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a…