Senior Programmer Analyst - Support Enforcement & Recovery

Location: Augusta,Maine,United States

OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - MAINEIT

DIVISON OF SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT & RECOVERY

Opening Date: July 18, 2024

Closing Date:  August 1, 2024

Job Class Code: 0866

Grade: 27

Salary: $66,952.08 - $94,077.38/Annually (includes 15% recruitment & retention stipend, and eligibile for an additional 5% trianing bonus)

Position Number:  020103227

We are offering the opportunity to be part of our growing application development team, where you will work in a dynamic environment, embracing new challenges and technologies. We are actively seeking talented individuals to join our team and contribute to our success. As we redefine our group identity, check out our current job openings and apply today to become part of our team!

OVERVIEW: 

The Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides information technology support to over 13,000 employees. OIT oversees large scale enterprise applications that support the critical and diverse business needs of the State of Maine and its agencies. OIT is seeking a highly talented individual who can lead technical teams and who maintains and support a variety of applications for our business partners.

We are seeking a highly talented individual who will represent our C.A.R.E. values in all that they do.  At OIT we:   

• Practice Customer-focus, ensuring that our customers are heard, and their needs are met  
• Hold ourselves to a high level of Accountability by being transparent with our stakeholders  
• Maintain an effective level of Responsiveness by providing timely updates in a proactive manner  
• Strive to provide Empathy driven, people-focused services by applying emotional intelligence skills and behaviors 

ABOUT THE JOB DETAILS:

The Senior Programmer/Analyst will develop technology solutions for the Division of Support Enforcement & Recovery (DSER). This position will support the Child Support Enforcement for Maine (CSEME) application.  This will include:

• Enhancing and maintaining the CSEME application. 
• Developing interfaces and web portals.
• Participating in all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ensuring the secure, stable, and highly performant delivery of all technology solutions to our agency. 
• Mentoring, coaching, and providing direction to junior developers

Hybrid Work Opportunity – This position currently has the opportunity to work from home as much as 90% of the time.  There is a requirement that the employee be in the office at least once every two weeks and the remote work location must be in the State of Maine.

Let us tell you what skills you will need to be successful in the position:

We are looking for you to have a strong technical skillset and the judgement to know when the team needs you to use it

• Excellent judgement of how and when to apply your technical skillS.

We are looking for you to be strong in the following areas:

• Ability to design, develop, test and maintain application code
• Able to accomplish tasks in a timely manner with limited supervision
• Experience with Agile/Kanban project management
• Ability to mentor and guide junior staff
• Demonstrated ability to define and resolve complex technical problems independently
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences
• SDLC management in an iterative hybrid environment

And finally, the ideal candidate will possess strong experience in the following technical areas:

• Reviewing code towards a cleaner more efficient and organized code base
• Competency in delivering fully tested deployments
• Competent with code repository/versioning management systems (i.e., GitHub, Subversion)
• Test driven development
• Java
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• RDBMS
• Oracle
• Oracle APEX
• Oracle forms
• Oracle BI Publisher
• Preference given to candidates who display a high-level skill set in the following areas: teamwork, communication, customer service, problem solving, mentoring, Oracle/PL-SQL and Oracle APEX skills.

How will you apply your skills?

• Troubleshoot and resolve system problems to ensure systems are continuously available and function properly
• Be an integral part of an application development team in b