IT Application Development (Senior Specialist) API & Interface Analyst

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 (Senior Specialist) API & Interface Analyst

Location: Thurston County Olympia Washington (This position is remote with an occasional in-person meeting at our headquarters in Olympia. During the implementation phase of the IT modernization initiative project (outlined below) in-person presence will increase).

Closes: November 17th 2025
Salary: $8113.00 - $10916.00 Monthly

The Opportunity:
Come work on our dynamic team while helping the children and families of Washington State! The Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) is a multi-year IT modernization initiative. This is a mission-critical project that directly supports the agencys business objectives and long-term vision. The API & Interface Analyst plays a crucial role in the transition from legacy systems to the new CCWIS solution. This position is focused on ensuring that all necessary interfaces between legacy systems and the new CCWIS platform are properly managed and maintained during and after the transition. The Analyst will work closely with the Decommission Lead to ensure that data and functionality are seamlessly transferred while also managing the decommissioning of any redundant or outdated interfaces.

Some of what you will get to do:

• Manage and monitor the agency mission-critical enterprise APIs and other interfaces.
• Support the seamless integration of large high-risk high-cost and complex data-centric technology investments.
• Create upgrade maintain enhance test and replace existing APIs and interfaces.
• Provide strategic consultation to business and IT teams.
• Identify ways to connect business and technology more effectively to achieve greater business efficiency.
• Collaborate with the DCYF Privacy Officer to ensure privacy requirements are met.
• Ensure platform security and compliance by implementing the cloud-native security tools encryption standards and monitoring solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation of the interface architecture configuration settings and standard operating procedures for the CCWIS solution.
• Design and implement risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans to address identified risks.

Required Qualifications:
Equivalent combination of education and experience totaling twelve (12) years of progressively complex problem-solving experience developing and maintaining high availability enterprise application programming interfaces (API) and associated web applications using C# or Java and SQL databases ANDFour (4) years of progressively more complex problem solving experience developing and maintaining data interface applications including Extract Transform and Load (ETL) batch processing (May be gained concurrently with experience above).

OR

Associate degree in computer science or closely related field AND Ten (10) years of progressively more complex problem-solving experience developing and maintaining high availability enterprise application programming interfaces (API) and associated web applications using C# or Java and SQL databases AND Four (4) years of progressively more complex problem solving experience developing and maintaining data interface applications including Extract Transform and Load (ETL) batch processing (May be gained concurrently with experience above).

OR

Bachelors degree in computer science or closely related field AND Eight (8) years of progressively more complex problem-solving experience developing and maintaining high availability enterprise application programming interfaces (API) and associated web applications using C# or Java and SQL databasesANDFour (4) years of progressively more complex problem solving experience developing and maintaining data interface applications including Extract Transform and Load (ETL) batch processing (May be gained concurrently with experience above).

In addition to the requirements above our ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following:

• Four years of progressively complex problem-solving experience in designing and developing microservices architecture for high availability web based n-tier distributed enterprise applications using a modular approach following standards set by federal regulations.
• Three years of experience configuring and using Mobile Device Management solutions to deploy and administer mobile enterprise applications.
• Experience using Microsoft Dynamics and Power platform.
• Experience developing with Java frameworks: Struts Spring and iBATIS.
• Experience with Comprehensive Child Welfare Information Systems (CCWIS).

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.

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