Application Development Supervisor

Salary Consideration

Range 08IT, Step A is $97,356 per year and Step L is $127,788. The high end of the salary range, Step M, is $130,992, and is typically a longevity step. All employees progress to Step M six (6) years after being assigned to Step L in their permanent salary range.

The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) seeks to fill the role of IT Application Development Supervisor within the Information Services section of the Administrative Services Division to provide technical expertise and development support for the commission’s digital services, including enterprise application modernization, system maintenance, database integration, and the implementation of new software features. The position is responsible for designing, coding, testing, and deploying software components that align with the agency’s mission and statewide technical standards.

This position has direct responsibility for managing the IT development and business analyst staff, and the section’s budget applicable to agency IT development and maintenance for all business applications. In addition, this position is a member of the agency’s extended leadership team.

Although this is a hybrid opportunity, the successful incumbent must reside within Washington state and must be available to report to the Lacey, Washington headquarters building when needed.

Local travel, mostly within Thurston County, may be required to attend training and meetings.

• UTC fosters an environment of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, while striving to hire and retain a workforce from the communities we serve.
• We place importance on a healthy balance between personal and professional lives; offering flexible work schedules, wellness programs, and mobile/telework opportunities.
• Through the state, our employees (and their families) are offered options for medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance.
• We offer enrollment into the state retirement programs and a deferred compensation plan.
• Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year.

The main purpose of this position is to provide professional-level software development, systems analysis, and technical support for the agency’s business applications and digital services. This role is responsible for designing, coding, testing, and implementing software solutions that adhere to enterprise-wide policies, security standards, and architectural frameworks. This position contributes to the modernization of legacy systems, supports the integration of new technologies, and ensures the continuous functionality of critical applications that align with agency and statewide operational goals.

Additional tasks include:

• Define the tools, practices, patterns, procedures, policies, and methods used by the application development staff to build and maintain applications, including mission-critical, high-risk applications.
• Interview, hire, assign, direct work, coach, evaluate, and discipline IS staff engaged in application development and maintenance.
• Manage the maintenance of application development tools and environments, and the transition of applications from legacy to modern environments.
• Provide high-level and long-term designs for applications and their interfaces with internal and external services.
• As an expert application developer, apply advanced knowledge and discretion to develop and update applications; create web pages and forms; create data connections and queries; design and build object classes, methods, and properties; compose report definitions; design code solutions and database tables; build stored procedures; and create or modify other computer code using Visual Studio, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, ASP.NET,
  
  C#, JavaScript, and other tools and languages in a mixed Dynamics, SharePoint, .NET, and SQL environment to create and maintain custom applications needed by the agency.
• Manage the section’s source code, product backlogs, and sprint planning in Azure Dev Ops.

• Seven (7) years of consultative,…