IT Application Developer - Entry | Information Services Division | Tumwater

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The Attorney General’s Office is recruiting for a permanent fulltime IT Application Developer - Entry in the Information Services Division. This position is located in Tumwater, Washington, and is not union-represented.

IT Application Development – Entry Salary range 04IT: $79,812 - $107,328

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 analysis, development, QA implementation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, and problem resolution for division specific and agency-wide, high risk/high impact, mission-critical custom developed applications, off-the-shelf software customizations, system integrations and databases.

The ideal candidate for this position will have demonstrable technical problem-solving skills, the interest and desire to understand complex business processes and the desire to learn and grow as a software developer.

This position provides software development and maintenance for new projects and solutions, enhancements to existing custom software solutions, off the shelf software customizations and software integrations.

Specific duties include:

• Provide software application development for performance metric tracking applications and approval workflows.
• Integrate custom applications and data with other systems utilizing approved Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
• Perform customizations and integrations with…