Senior Developer

at Illinois Department of Innovation & Technology in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

•    Under administrative direction, serves as a Senior Developer for the Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT) supporting the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) conducting and coordinating complex application development on-site using designated software and programming languages for database and program design.
•    Serves as a team leader for specific systems and tools.
•    Analyzes and recommends new procedures and techniques to improve the supported application systems.
•    Serves as a primary support for scheduled and remedial maintenance to the assigned applications.
•    Keeps abreast of new developments in the information technology field by continuing education through online training platforms, meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures. 
•    Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.

•    Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to four (4) years of college with course work in computer science or directly related fields. 
•    Requires three (3) years of professional experience in application services or a related Information Technology field.