IT Application Development Journey (Olympia)

Our vision is to ensure that Washington states children and youth grow up safe and healthythriving physically emotionally and academically nurtured by family and community.

Job Title:IT Application Development Journey (Olympia)
Location: Olympia WA (This position is remote)

Closes:October 20th 2025

Salary:$7010.00 - $9429.00 Monthly

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The Opportunity:
The DCYF Application Development group designs and maintains scalable applications that support financial operations human resources licensing case management reporting and other core business this role you will work on the Social Service Payment System (SSPS) a mainframe system with a .NET front end that processes provider payments. This position offers the chance to maintain and enhance a large mission-critical application while also contributing to rebuilding older systems and developing new solutions that directly support children youth and families across Washington State.

Some of what you will get to do:

• Designs and develops of interfaces with business partners.
• Uses software development methods and tools to integrate and support custom-off-the-shelf (COTS) software and services.
• Collaborates with DevOps teams to ensure regular controlled deployment of updates to existing database driven applications.
• Decomposes high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements.
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex application interface and data related issues.
• Ensures security and privacy requirements are met.
• Monitors health and function of applications reacts and responds to problems.
• Resolves incidents for stakeholders customers and partners by pragmatically working through the incidents possible origins until a cause is identified and mitigated or resolved.

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree or higher in computer science or closely allied field including 9 semester or 15 quarter hours of computer science courses AND Four years of progressively more complex problem solving as a developer designing developing or maintaining large-scale applications with mission critical business functions C# SQL Server SQL Reporting Services Transact SQL Web based programming and supporting tools.

OR

Six years of progressively more complex problem-solving as a developer designing developing or maintaining large-scale applications with mission-critical business functions C# SQL Server SQL Reporting Services Transact SQL Web-based programming and supporting tools.

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of application development principles concepts technologies current industry standards and the Microsoft technology stack including Windows Visual Studio C# SQL TFS SharePoint etc.
• Working knowledge of Agile values and principles as they apply to application development.
• Working knowledge of Scrum development methodologies artifacts and traditions.
• Working knowledge of DevOps concepts.
  

• Experience in SCRUM Agile and iterative development processes.
• Agile Training or Certification.
• .NET Developer training or certification.
• Agile Training or Certification.

How do I apply
Complete your applicant profile on and attach the following documents:

• Current resume detailing experience and education.
• Letter of Interest.

Supplemental Information:

The Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF) is committed to Washingtons children and youth growing up safe healthy and thriving. We invite all candidates to join us in our mission to create a diverse and equitable workplace that reflects the communities we serve. If you are excited about this role but you believe that your education and/or experience might not align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting we encourage you to apply anyway.

The Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF) is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age sex marital status sexual orientation race creed color national origin honorably discharged veteran or military status or the presence of any sensory mental or physical disability or the use of a trained service animal by a person with a disability.

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

If you have any questions pertaining to this recruitment or if you would like to request an accommodation throughout the application/interview process contact Cole Alford (Talent Acquisition Specialist) at If youre experiencing technical difficulties creating accessing or completing your application call NEOGOV toll-free at or

Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and wish to claim Veterans Preference MUST attach a copy of their DD214 or NGB Form 22 or other verification of military service. Please blackout (redact) the social security number before attaching any documents. For additional information on Veterans Preference and guidance on how to determine if you are eligibleclick here.