Water IT Senior Programmer Analyst

Pay Range: $89,164 - $115,914 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Workdays &

Hours:

Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm;
Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

A Water IT Senior Programmer Analyst job is available with the City of Fort Worth Water Department, Management Services Division. In this role, you’ll be part of the Water IT team, which supports all technology used across the Fort Worth Water Utility, including systems that serve our customers directly. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, a solutions-focused mindset, and the ability to work within a collaborative environment where customer service, communication, and dependable technical delivery are essential.

The Senior Programmer Analyst is responsible for formulating and defining system scope and objectives, architecture, development, maintenance, and support of complex applications for the Utility delivered via the web, Internet and Intranet, and/or client-server. The incumbent is responsible for applying programming best practices, architectures, and patterns, assists others in programming, and leads in planning, architecting, securing, unit testing, and deploying custom applications.

Adhering to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices, change control policies, and service level agreement (SLA) compliance is expected. This position will also gain knowledge and provide support in additional areas of Oracle Right Now/Oracle Service Cloud and Itineris UMAX Utility Suite. This position is located onsite in Fort Worth, Texas.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Five (5) years experience in information systems design/administration, systems analysis, or computer programming
• Valid Texas Driver’s License
• Participate in a 24 x 7 on call rotation

• Municipal or local government experience – Water/Wastewater Utility experience is a plus
• Demonstrated knowledge of Utility processes, workflows, and procedures
• Demonstrated experience with Integration tools such as Mule Soft, Web Logic, Dell Boomi
• Web Services:
  Developing and implementing REST/SOAP (JSON/XML)
• Dev Ops practices including CI/CD pipelines, and source control (e.g., Git Hub)
• Any JavaScript languages, preferably React
• Programming languages, preferably Java
• Relational databases, stored procedures, SQL queries
• Knowledge of Oracle Right Now/Oracle Service Cloud software or similar application
• UMAX Utility Suite

• Serve as a technical expert for system design, programming, and data flows.
• Analyze and resolve complex application and data problems
• Lead efforts to implement innovative solutions that enhance application performance and user experience
• Lead the design, programming (development), maintenance and execution of testing of new and changed functionality for complex/major applications
• Provide input on the specifications and evaluation of new off-the-shelf applications.
• Document technical solutions, maintain specifications, and contribute to technical standards and knowledge sharing across the team
• Support the growth of junior team members by sharing knowledge and best practices across teams through feedback and guidance
• Work with business users to analyze business requirements and translate into technical specifications and design, develop and implement application modifications, interfaces, and integrations
• Verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, databases and integrations, systems and key processes, ensuring that they are performing efficiently and as designed
• Ass…