at Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
30% Under administrative direction, serves as a Senior PC Application Developer for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT), supporting Illinois Department of Revenue (IDoR):
- Coordinates and conducts complex application development using programming languages for the database design, program design, and supplied tools for testing the new processes.
- Provides complex technical and analytical application and user support.
- Conducts and coordinates in-depth technical research and feasibility studies to determine the best application needs for users.
- Confers with users to identify functional and security requirements and to determine application requirements.
- Performs in-depth system analysis by charting process flow utilizing relational databases DB2, Microsoft Access, or Microsoft SQL Server to design and implement backend databases.
- Performs specification writing, coding, testing, audit trails.
- Develops control procedures, input/output, forms design, interactive system procedures.
- Prepares testing plans, test scripts, and test data for new or modified programs and SQL code.
- Performs testing, ensuring logic paths are tested.
- Evaluates test results to verify conformance with program objectives.
- Performs fine tuning of applications.
- Designs and implements maintainable software applications and libraries utilizing Object Oriented design theory, concepts, principles, and languages such as VB.NET, Visual Basic, Java, or other .NET programming language within Microsoft Visual Studio or Adobe Acrobat Professional
- Prepares user and operational guidelines, operational manuals and application or system documentation.
- Follows DoIT/IDoR adopted system design methodology to ensure the integrity of the application meets the required standards of security, efficiency, and scope of the system.
20% Serves as liaison with user community for changes and enhancements to the application systems supported by the PC Application Development Section:
- Analyzes service requests, identifies system changes, and develops integrated work plans and cost benefits.
- Performs complex systems modification design changes and prepares complex modifications.
- Evaluates systems needs as part of long-range planning efforts and provides recommendations for system changes/enhancements to management.
20% Serves as project coordinator for full-range major/complex projects including large hardware/software deployments and installations:
- Determines and coordinates project components such as project scheduling and assignments.
- Assigns and reviews the work of project staff.
- Provides expertise, guidance, and direction to staff.
- Reviews results and incorporates individual components of project into the final product.
15% Serves as the primary support for scheduled and remedial maintenance to the assigned applications:
- Schedules processes, reviews history of processed jobs, and responds appropriately to any abnormal completion status.
- Provides status reports to management.
5% Analyzes and recommends new procedures and techniques to improve the supported application systems:
- Adheres to adopted methodology standards to ensure integrity of each system/sub-system during maintenance/enhancement activities
5% Keeps abreast of new developments in the Information Technology (IT) field:
- Continues education by attending meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on IT products, vendors, techniques, and procedures.
- Attends demonstrations and exhibitions related to assigned operations.
5% Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
