PRINCIPAL APPLICATION DEVELOPER / EMERGENCY APPOINTMENT HOMELESSNESS

Posting number: PH2526B-EA

Department: PUBLIC HEALTH

Job classification: PRINCIPAL APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Posting type: Open

Categories: IT and Computers, Public Health

Summary

The LA County Board of Supervisors recently declared a local state of emergency for homelessness, and the County is working to revise and expand our response to help all who are affected. We are looking for qualified and passionate individuals to help us in the mission of addressing issues like housing, mental health, and substance use. If you are looking for a new career that will directly benefit the population of LA County, this may be the opportunity for you.

The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health is seeking qualified candidates to fill emergency Principal Application Developer vacancies related to the homelessness crisis.

Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment.

During your initial work period, you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100%.

Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment to Principal Application Developer.

DEFINITION:
Performs highly specialized and complex information systems analysis and programming tasks and acts as technical expert for development or maintenance of one or more major systems. This position may also function as a lead for application development projects and may supervise lower level application development personnel.

For information about the specific classification standards for this position, please visit the following link: Principal Application Developer

Examples of duties

• Provides technical expertise to project managers, department management, and/or user management regarding one or more major system development or maintenance efforts.
• Advises management on technical alternatives, such as languages, tools, platforms, utilities, and servers.
• Leads and participates in the work of a team of Application Developers engaged in the development or maintenance of the most highly technical programs.
• Provides technical consulting on long-range information systems planning.
• Programs the most specialized and complex applications.
• Solves the more complex application software and system performance problems.
• Analyzes performance data and conducts capacity planning.
• Establishes quality assurance procedures.
• Monitors vendors to ensure performance according to project goals and contract terms, and reports performance problems to management.
• Assists in creating Statements of Work (SOWs) in support of applications development efforts as needed.
• Serves as a project manager as needed.
• Represents the department in collaborative efforts with other County departments, outside agencies, and/or vendors as needed.
• Supervises lower level application development personnel as needed.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY:

OPTION I: Graduation from an accredited college with a bachelor's degree* in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a closely related field.Four (4) years of progressively responsible**, full-time, paid experience in a centralized information technology organization***, coding, testing and debugging application programs.

OPTION II: Two (2) years of experience, within the last three (3) years, at the level of the Los Angeles County class of Senior Application Developer****.

OPTION III: Five (5) years of progressively responsible**, full-time, paid experience in an informatio