Application Development Lead #W2486

Title: Application Development Lead #W2486

State Role Title: Info Technology Specialist III

Hiring Range: $115,000 - $134,105 per year (salary commensurate with experience)

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Department of Social Services

Location: DSS HOME OFFICE

Agency Website: https://www.dss.virginia.gov/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

At the Virginia Department of Social Services, we put people at the center of everything we do. We believe that every Virginian can live a life of dignity and that all voices, ideas and experiences contribute greatly to our pursuit of excellence. Inspired by continuous improvement, we commit ourselves to listening, learning and cultivating environments of trust, respect and positive engagement. Together, we are mission-driven, eager to achieve, and passionate about bringing the best of who we are to those we serve.

We design and deliver high-quality human services that help Virginians achieve safety, independence and overall well-being. We are a $2 billion agency – one of the largest in the Commonwealth of Virginia – partnering with 120 local departments of social services and 31 community action agencies, along with faith-based and non-profit organizations, to promote the well-being of children, adults, and families statewide. We proudly serve alongside 1,650 (state) and 12,200 (local) human services professionals throughout the Social Services System, who ensure that thousands of Virginia’s most vulnerable citizens have easy access to the services and benefits available to them.

Application Development Lead is responsible to:
• Develop and maintain ITS application development catalogue offerings such as: MS Power Apps, JAVA, and ORACLE solutions requiring advanced analysis, research and design.
• Work on small to large complex projects that require advanced skill in multiple technical environments to produce integrated solutions to resolve highly complex technical and business issues to serve a diverse audience with varied proficiencies.

Application Development Lead provides technical guidance to Application Developers.

The Application Development Lead supports analysis and development of application design, performance monitoring, systems analysis, and quality assurance and integration methodologies.
The Application Development Lead designs, writes, tests, debugs, troubleshoots, and leverages division approved open source/new/COTS/reused source code across the enterprise and guides other developers in these functions.

Application Development Lead plays a lead role in project management with analysis and research on technical efforts requiring development resources; communicating problems & project risks; designs technical requirements for the project managers/teams; guides and directs work on multiple projects and ensures proper usage as part of the design efforts in building a system to be put into production.
The position works closely with Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure & Operations teams and guides other developers to ensure the solutions developed conform to the prescribed architecture; follows VDSS approved standards and processes; ensures solutions are complaint with all security protocols and guidelines; and seeks/obtains input from Enterprise Architecture on items that are architecturally significant and thereby affect development design/approach/solution.

Application Development Lead prepares system documents and constructs code to deliver quality, cost effective and timely deliverables according to the department’s lifecycle development approach.

This includes, but is not limited to:
• Clarifying requests for solutions, enhancements or system changes.
• Performing estimate analysis on requests, tickets or proposals.
• Analyzing user requirements, documents and requests to develop effective automated solutions.
• Maintaining production code, programs and supporting test plans.

Application Development Lead will provide direct support to ITS and other developers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience working extensively in all phases of a project development life cycle from Requirements analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Documentation, Standard reviews and Maintenance support.
• Experience leading teams in an agile or similar development environment.
• Experience developing through all phases of Project Life Cycle: Analysis, Design, Build, Testing, and Deployment using Iterative, AGILE and waterfall m