IT Application Developer - Senior​/Specialist | Information Services Division | Tumwater

IT Application Developer, Senior/Specialist

The Attorney General's Office is recruiting for a permanent full-time IT Application Developer, Senior/Specialist in the Information Services Division. This position is located in Tumwater, Washington, and is not union-represented. IT App Development - Sr/Spec salary range 08IT: $97,356 - $130,992 (Effective 7/1/2025) | $99,300 - $133,608 (Effective 7/1/2026) The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the preferred candidate's job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

The AGO provides a workplace that is understanding of work-life balance and promotes advancement by offering a wide variety of professional development and growth opportunities.

Washington State offers one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation, including Medical/Dental/Vision for employees & dependent(s);
Vacation, Sick, and Other Leave; 11 Paid Holidays per year;
Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) plans; and Life Insurance. Beyond these traditional benefits, we offer Dependent Care Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Tuition Waiver, Deferred Compensation, Employee Recognition Leave, and more. With the goal of employee health and wellness, we also offer:

• Flexible schedules and part-time/hybrid telework options;
• A Wellness Program, an Infants in the Workplace Program, and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides counseling, webinar, and other cost-free support resources;
• Numerous employee-driven affinity groups to foster community and connection, including Bereavement, Elder Care, Parenting, POC, LGBTQ+, Veterans and more. The AGO is a place to belong and make a difference!

The Information Services Division (ISD) provides strategic technology leadership, support and consulting for legal technologies and platforms.

ISD leads the design, development, and delivery of all AGO technology systems and applications, including enterprise infrastructure, voice services and secure network environments. The division also maintains the operations of software and cloud platforms (private and public) to provide AGO staff access to their confidential work product and communications, ensuring solutions are tailored to the AGO's unique legal and operational needs.

ISD has multiple units that provide project management and business analysis service, electronic library services, custom software development, business intelligence, data management services, and eDiscovery litigation technical support. Through rigorous governance and cybersecurity controls. ISD ensures compliance with state governance policies/standards and that all technology services function properly and securely.

This position uses an agile development methodology, innovation and creativity to complete assignments. The position provides supervision and expert level architecture, analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, and problem resolution for division specific and agency-wide, and high risk/high impact, mission-critical custom developed applications, off the shelf software customizations, system integrations and databases.

Responsibilities include:

• Provides software development, architecture, design and maintenance for new projects, enhancements, off the shelf software customizations and software integrations:
• Serves as a technical leader on highly complex software or application development efforts.
• Evaluates new software development products and programming languages and makes recommendations to ensure consistency with industry best practices.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend technologies, tools, and approaches to improve system functionality, efficiency, and maintainability.
• Proactively monitors system performance to identify emerging issues.

Participates in business analysis and prioritization for software development projects:

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to identify business requirements, and solve business needs through developing custom software solutions.
• Defines and analyzes IT problems, conducts in-depth research, and provides recommendations on solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Liaises with technical, business and stakeholder groups, communicating effectively between the two entities.

Provides oversight and supervision to the Software Development Team:

• Utilizes performance management tools to create and maintain successful teams resulting in an environment where employees are valued and respected.
• Provides leadership, mentoring, coaching and education to develop and maintain effective, well-trained teams based on performance standards. Leads by example to provide guidance to IT staff.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and support of development team initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

Option 1:
Nine (9) years of information technology experience such as architecting, analyzing, designing, or programming software…