Comptroller - Senior Software Applications Lead (Reopen) (00044284)
Organization: COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
Primary Location: Texas-Austin
Work Locations: Lyndon B Johnson Building (304-00001) 111 E 17th Street Austin 78774
Job: Computer and Mathematical
Employee Status: Regular
Schedule: Full-time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
State Job Code: 0246
Salary Admin Plan: B
Grade: 29
Salary (Pay Basis): 10,400.00 - 10,920.00 (Monthly)
Number of Openings: 1
Overtime Status: Exempt
Job Posting: Sep 24, 2024, 3:25:26 PM
Closing Date: Ongoing
Description:
Applications must be filed at: Job Application. If you have previously applied, there is no need to reapply. Your application is still being considered for this position.
Please note that this job posting can be closed without notice and earlier than the closing date indicated in the posting if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage applicants to submit and complete the application promptly.
Are you ready to grow, make a positive impact? If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!
Innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence best describe the culture here at the Comptroller’s Office. We take pride in the work we do serving as Texas' accountant, tax collector, treasurer, and much more! The Comptroller’s office serves virtually every citizen in the state. As Texas’ chief tax collector, accountant, revenue estimator, treasurer, and purchasing manager, the agency is responsible for writing the checks and keeping the books for the multi-billion-dollar business of state government.
Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on-the-job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.
ABOUT THE Division:
The Texas Comptroller's Office is looking for an experienced and eager individual to join our Administrative Applications Section within the Information Technology Division. The ideal programmer is passionate about learning new technology and tools to create innovative applications used by internal and external users. You will be involved in working with our internal and external stakeholders in an agile environment to understand business needs and design solutions adopting industry best practices; programming the software solutions with unit testing; leading small to medium size technology projects and innovations; researching modern technology & tools; recommending scalable software solutions; working with the DevOps team to enable pipelines; following the entire Software Development Lifecycle from inception to deployment, following an Agile development methodology; and providing maintenance and post-production support.
Work Hours: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 40-hour week, Monday – Friday. Occasionally, work additional hours on evenings, weekends, and/or holidays, including working on-call 24 hours a day during a rotation. Hours may change based on business need.
Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in-office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e. report to the office 1 day/month, 1 day/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Nine (9) years of work experience in solution analysis, design, implementation, and support of web-based applications with relational or NoSQL databases.
- Five (5) years of hands-on work experience in application architecture and design with a microservices-based modern technology stack.
- Four (4) years of work experience using Cloud technologies.
- Two (2) years of work experience leading medium to large scale projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, or Management Information Systems.
- Nine (9) years of work experience using a structured Software Development Life Cycle methodology for software development and maintenance.
- Nine (9) years of experience with website development in Microsoft.NET environment (ASP.NET, C#, HTML, CSS, REACT, JavaScript, Typescript) with databases like MongoDB, SQL Server, and/or DB2.
- Nine (9) years of experience in Agile and DevOps methodology as a developer.
- Five (5) years of experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Development tools, preferably Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Git.
- Five (5) years of experience implementing complex application security requirements.
- Four (4) years of work experience with SSRS and SSIS OR any BI tool.
- Four (4) years of hands-on work experience with Amazon Web Services Cloud technologies.
- Five (5) years of hands-on experience using NoSQL DB like MongoDB or similar.
Substitutions: One (1) additional year of experience in .Net development work may substitute for (30) thirty semester hours of educational requirement with a maximum substitution of 120 semester hours (four years).
LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS (Preferred): Scrum Developer certification from an accredited organization.
In this role you will:
- Lead and oversee highly complex software development work-streams implementation using modern technologies, tools, and techniques.
- Research new technology architecture trends and recommend scalable solutions to the agency.
- Create software solutions by adopting industry best practices and following CPA’s IT standards/practices, creating application-specific architecture and vision.
- Develop systems documentation and automate development processes as needed.
- Create and/or lead technology Proof-Of-Concepts and provide recommendations to the department.
- Train junior team members.
- Analyze software applications business needs.
- Create and document software solutions.
- Write systems documentation and process flows as needed.
- Oversee and ensure new software automation meets operational efficiencies.
- Create new processes/procedures to increase developer efficiencies.
- Provide technical leadership to multiple complex large-scale projects simultaneously.
- Research new technology industry trends and create adoption plans.
- Evaluate technology budget, create business cases for new solutions, prepare technical delivery roadmaps.
- Mentor team members on technical concepts and adoption, and manage vendor engagement as needed.
- Provide production support, incident management, and resolution including on-call rotation support.
- May provide 24x7 production support on a weekly on-call rotation schedule.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Maximize Your Earnings!
At the Comptroller's office, we know potential employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. The agency offers a strong benefits package for you and your family. Insurance, retirement plans, and a flexible work schedule are just the start.
If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!
Important Note to the Candidate:
Salary is contingent upon qualifications. If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.
MILITARY PREFERENCE: To receive MILITARY PREFERENCE, you are required to provide proof by attaching the necessary documentation to this job application.
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The Comptroller’s Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.
An applicant must be eligible to work in the United States to be hired at the Comptroller's office and must remain eligible, without sponsorship or any assurance of financial or other assistance from this agency, during the term of their employment.
