IT Application Development - Sr/Spc

The Office of Secretary of State (OSOS) offers some of the most unique and diverse job opportunities in state government. Its critical responsibilities include: ensuring a fair and accurate elections process; connecting Washingtonians through the power of libraries; protecting our important government records; and registering corporations and charities. The Secretary of State also administers vital community programs that inspire giving, document our history, and assist crime survivors in avoiding further abuse. This independent office under the state Constitution operates from facilities in the Olympia area and statewide. The OSOS is looking for top-performing employees who embody its core values of integrity, service excellence, visionary leadership, collaboration and teamwork. It is committed to both employee growth and work-life balance. The benefits of working in state government also include potential eligibility for the federal [Public Service Loan Forgiveness](https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service) program. Visit our website at: [www.sos.wa.gov](http://www.sos.wa.gov/). The Division of Information Technology (IT) ensures that all technology systems within OSOS business programs run smoothly, securely, and efficiently. We are the strategic partner in driving business goals, improving operational efficiency, and safeguarding critical data and systems. IT is deeply involved in ensuring the seamless flow of information, providing scalability and innovation, handling everything from hardware, software and tools to complex systems delivering valuable customer experience. **IT Application Development Senior/Specialist** **Permanent, Full-Time** This position description is a senior level position that reports to an IT Application Development Supervisor within the Office of the Secretary of State (OSOS), IT Division. This position is responsible for the design, maintenance, and continued modernization of systems and services supporting the Corporations & Charities Division Business programs and services. This position will also provide technical support for OSOS office core development team interfaces and systems to include internal and external design, modification, and maintenance of data and user interfaces. An incumbent in this position will be responsible for aligning OSOS IT systems to IT Policy, standards and external regulations for security, privacy, compliance and best practice. Where best practice does not exist, this position will devise best practice strategies to support technical work for applications, data, and services under their purview. These duties touch every division and mission of the Office.**Application Developer Senior Specialist** **Tasks include:** - Provides technical expertise in daily operations within application, data, and cloud development engineering to support applications, systems, services, data and hardware infrastructures for OSOS within the IT Division. - Serves as the technical lead for day-to-day development operations, issues and outages related to applications, data and services within OSOS for the CCD Division. - Diagnoses and triages cloud application development issues, working to find root cause, and corrects the problem. - Defines designs, and documents standards and best practice uses for application and data development to be used by the team. - Researches and identifies new and modern methods for continued best practice for application and data development for continued improvement and modernization over applications, systems, services, data, and hardware infrastructures. - Provides knowledge and expertise to other application core team developers in the use of various technical tools, integrated development environments, test driven development patterns and practices, and supporting frameworks. - Provides code review, version control management, deployment and release management process and guidance using ITIL, Agile, and other framew…