L&I IT Application Development Entry

• Understanding complex application design patterns.

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Be part of a team that powers the technology behind critical public services.

The Information Technology Division serves as the backbone of innovation for the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I), delivering impactful technology solutions that directly support the agency's mission and business priorities. As a member of this team, you won't just build applications, you'll help drive the systems that support essential functions like Budget, Human Resources, Security, and Workplace Safety & Health.

In this role, you’ll be trusted to develop, enhance, and maintain high-visibility, mission-critical enterprise applications that support the BOSS development teams
. Your work will directly influence systems that support the Office of Human Resources, Budget Office, Internal Audit, and Information Technology Security Office divisions of Labor and Industries.

A significant focus of this position will be the use of Microsoft's Power Platform, including Power Apps (canvas and model-driven), Power Automate, and Dataverse, to build and modernize applications, automate workflows, and streamline how L&I employees interact with agency data. You'll apply Power Fx, JavaScript, and REST API integration skills to connect Power Platform solutions to enterprise data sources and extend low-code development into production-ready, enterprise-grade tools.

Working in a collaborative, agile environment, you’ll contribute to a high-performing team that values innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Using modern tools like Azure Dev Ops and a structured software development lifecycle (SDLC) approach, you’ll help deliver high-quality solutions while continuously refining processes and practices.

If you're looking for a role where your technical expertise has real-world impact and where your contributions are both valued and visible. This is your opportunity to make a difference!

Application Development, including:

• Develop and maintain software applications, application interfaces and web services.
• Understands business requirements and how they translate to application features.
• Understands dependencies across multiple applications when developing, maintaining, and making enhancements to applications.
• Performs unit and integration testing.
• Conducts functional and non-functional testing
• Resolves technology issues related to server environment, platform, software, and hardware requirements.
• Troubleshoots and debugs applications, interfaces, and web services .

Application Development
- Process and Documentation, including:

• Uses the software development lifecycle process to plan, analyze, design, develop, and test applications and application interfaces.
• Uses Azure Dev Ops to manage source code, track work efforts, manage requirements, track bugs, manage software releases, track development tasks, and manage product backlogs.

Application Development Research, including:

• Research complex technical issues related to application development, database structure, application platform, configuration, application performance, security and data integrity.
• Stay current on trends in .NET, SQL, Java, Windows server, networking, security, database modeling, cloud computing, and integrating applications.

• 4 years of demonstrated information technology experience in the following areas:
• Analyzing, designing, consulting, developing, and/or supporting software products.
• Utilizing Visual Studio and .NET programming.
• Using MS SQL Server.
• Utilizing JQuery, Bootstrap, JavaScript or other related JavaScript Framework.
• Understanding complex application design patterns.
• Using agile and scrum development methodologies.
• Managing application source control processes and tools.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science

• The ability to take action to learn and grow.
• The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

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