Apps Developer

DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SAFETY

The Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) is a social and human services agency whose mission is to successfully engage children and families to ensure safety, strengthen families, and achieve permanency. DCS has field office locations located throughout the state of Arizona, with its central office located in Downtown Phoenix. DCS employs over 2,800 employees who share the common vision of ensuring children thrive in family environments free from abuse and neglect.

3003 N CENTRAL AVE
PHOENIX, AZ 85012

Salary: $40.8182 hourly/$84,902.00 salary

Grade: 26

Closing Date:

The Cloud Application Developer assists in the planning, coordination, monitoring, analysis, installation, and ongoing support of company-wide initiatives and efforts as part of a Cloud based \ hosted Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to include Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and other enterprise applications such as Business Rules Engine (BRE) and e-Signature software implementations within hosted FedRAMP environments.

The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

Supports production systems; analyzes and resolves production problems in a timely manner; resolves end user service requests as assigned. Provides on call and after hours support as required for production releases and to respond and provide active resolution support on production outages.

Configures, develops, administers and supports all components of the solutions and systems, works with hosting partners and vendors as needed; creates and maintains existing scripts and API integrations, imaging, capture, document/content management, Workflows, Business Rules (backend).

Develops cloud-based solution code and interfaces, writes unit tests when implementing user stories, tests deliverables against a user story’s acceptance tests; configures Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, ensures Continuous Integration and Deployment is in place.

Develops or updates support documentation as needed by the DevOps function and participates in Peer Review to allow acceptance of systems changes into production.

Facilitates/leads reviews (walkthroughs) or grooming sessions and demos of technical specifications and program code with other members of the technical team, communicating design, requirements, feature set, functionality and limitations of systems/applications to team and development lead.

Assist team members to analyze, debug, and resolve defects in applications, mentor junior team members on development \ configuration best practices, operational procedures and troubleshooting techniques.

• Other duties as assigned as related to the position.

Knowledge of:

• Various infrastructure technologies and in-house developed applications utilized in the enterprise
  
• Cloud technology trends and concepts
  
• Software Development Lifecycle concepts (agile, waterfall)
  
• DevOps Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to include Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions
  
• SQL Database, OnBase API, Unity Script, InRule
  
Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions (Microsoft Dynamics CE, InRule, OnBase, DocuSign)

Skill in:

• Customer service
  
• Interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
  
• Troubleshooting
  
• Cloud development tools and languages
  
• Service-oriented application development
  
• Developing cloud storage solutions (e.g., storage tables, blob storage, etc.)
  
• Performing complex configurations and customization in Microsoft Dynamics 365
  
• NET, Xrm tooling, WSDL (SOAP) XML, CSDL (OData v4 REST) JSON, JavaScript
  
DocuSign development

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Ability to:

• Balance, prioritize and organize multiple tasks
  
• Work collaboratively in teams and across organizations
  
• Build strong relationships inside and outside the organization
  
• Develop and write technical documentation
  
• Evaluate and test emerging technologies
  
• Navigating Azure Portal
  
• Secure development practices
  
• Perform cloud application troubleshooting
  
• Provide standardized solutions for clients and must maintain a calm demeanor in the face of a busy and stressful workplace
  

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, OnBase Certified System Administrator (OCSA)

Bachelor’s degree plus 5 or more years of experience in systems administration (or equivalent experience).
Must be able to secure and maintain an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card; must be able to secure and maintain clearance from DCS Central Registry.
Driver License - not required

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver’s License Requirements.

All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).

The State of Arizona provides an excellent comprehensive benefits package including:

• Affordable medical, dental, life, and short-term disability insurance plans
  
• Top-ranked retirement and long-term disability plans
  
• 10 paid holidays per year
  
• Vacation time accrued at 4.00 hours bi-weekly for the first 3 years
  
• Sick time accrued at 3.70 hours bi-weekly
  
• Deferred compensation plan
  
Wellness plans

By providing the option of a full-time or part-time remote work schedule, employees enjoy improved work/life balance, report higher job satisfaction, and are more productive. Remote work is a management option and not an employee entitlement or right. An agency may terminate a remote work agreement at its discretion.

Positions in this classification participate in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). Enrollment eligibility will become effective after 27 weeks of employment.

Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by contacting 602-255-2903.
Requests should be made as early as possible to allow time to arrange the accommodation. The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer.

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