IT App Development Expert

GENERAL SERVICE

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

IT App Development - Expert

$107364 - $144372 annually

Closes December 062025

The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) seeks to fill an IT Application Development - Expert. This full-time permanent position is based in Olympia Washington. This position may be eligible for partial to near full-time telework. Telework is a combination of in-building and off-site days. During onboarding there will be occasional in-person expectations to support your training and integration into the team. After onboarding this role typically requires 12 days per week in the office to stay connected with your team and participate in trainings and meetings.While were happy to offer this balance of in-office connection and telework flexibility this isnt a fully remote position. To be eligible youll also need to reside in the state of Washington. We encourage interested candidates to visit the OSPI website to gain insight into our agency.

About OSPI and our initiatives

OSPI is the primary agency charged with overseeing public K12 education in Washington state. Working with the states 295 public school districts and 7 state-tribal education compact schools OSPI allocates funding and provides tools resources and technical assistance so every student in Washington is provided a high-quality public education.

At OSPI we recognize that our employees are the key to the success of the agency. We are committed to our work but value the balance with our personal lives. We demonstrate our commitment to employees by providing an environment that stimulates professional growth and values them for their expertise. OSPI is a great place to work and has several initiatives to help create a great working environment including:

Vision Mission and Values
Vision: All students prepared for post-secondary pathways careers and civic engagement.

Mission: Transform K-12 education to a system that is centered on closing opportunity gaps and is characterized by high expectations for all students and educators. We achieve this by developing equity-based policies and supports that empower educators families and communities.

Values: Ensuring Equity Collaboration and Service Achieving Excellence through Continuous Improvement Focus on the Whole Child

Equity

Each student family and community possesses strengths and cultural knowledge that benefits their peers educators and schools. Ensuring educational equity:

Position Overview

The objective of this position is to independently ensure that the Schools Accounting and Financial System (SAFS) a custom application used for financial processing and system management is efficient scalable and accurate to support the financial teams operational and strategic goals. Enhance financial operations support financial decision making ensure compliance with legislative requirements and timelines improve system performance facilitate integration with other applications drive innovation and industry practices and manage application and process risks.

This position reports to the Application Development Supervisor and is responsible for communicating plans and activities with the supervisor. Communicate with staff and programs and implement the supervisors direction.

This position is responsible for the oversight of application development for operation design and development of the SAFS suite of applications utilized by 9 Educational Services Districts over 295 Local Educational Agencies and over 3000 Schools statewide. These custom applications designed and developed in-house support Washington Education in setting policy and distributing over $12 Billion (52% of the Washington State Government Budget) in support of over 1.2 million students.

This position is also responsible for coordinating work efforts with technical teams to meet or exceed customer expectations for data collections security and application architecture.

The application development team provides critical and complex software support and maintenance programming to state and federally mandated data processes for Washington State K-12 education.

This includes but is not limited to architecture design maintenance and operation framework management technology policy and process within the Agency.

Key Responsibilities

Duty: Serve as the highest-level developer responsible for the development and maintenance of the SAFS application code base to support the OSPI financial processes that support school districts.

• Provide technical consulting and oversight for the most complex and precedent setting issues. Leads technical initiatives and mentors lower-level staff ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Communicate with decision makers customers and users about processes and issues link efforts with strategic guidance reach an understanding define fine goals and outline a plan or roadmap for SAFS.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements. Ensure the application is working according to the requirements obtained from the finance staff.

• Negotiate priorities and schedule work with program staff. Schedule deployments with technical deployment teams and respond to any issues that arise during deployment. Make work assignments for contractors and provide direction regarding software development practices.
• Work with the Application Development Supervisor to bring practices in alignment with Application Development Standards.
• Make work assignments for contract developers and direct them on OSPI processes.

Duty:Use advanced development skills to design and enhance SAFS application infrastructure.

Duty: Drive innovation by improving personal and system performance.

Required Qualifications:

Eleven years of progressive professional IT experience including two years developing financial applications with a focus on complex application development and financial transactions that flow through the system and concepts such as accounting budgets and budget codes general ledger accounts and weighted averages.

A post-secondary (four year) degree in computer science mathematics or other closely aligned software development field can be used year-for-year for experience. Doctorate up to 7 years Masters up to 5 years Bachelors up to 4 years and community college up to 2 years.

AND included in the above years of experience

At least four years of experience that includes each of the following that can occur concurrently:

Desired Qualifications:

At least two years of experience that includes each of the following:

Professional experience in continuous improvement business processes:

Experience working within an Educational Agency at the State or Local level.

Compensation
The annual compensation for the position is$107364 - $144372 per year and depends upon experience educational background and qualifications. Geographic differentials may be applied based on work location of successful candidate. Washington State offers a generous benefit package including health dental and life insurance retirement and an optional deferred compensation program. Please visitHealth Care Authorityfor information regarding health benefits and theDepartment of Retirement Systemsfor retirement plan information. This is a general service position. This position is not represented by a bargaining unit.

Application Process

Those interested in this position must apply through. Applications must include the following documents in MS Word and PDF format only:

Please address any questions to:

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
600 Washington Street Southeast
Olympia Washington 98504-7200

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Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may contact the Human Resources Office at or or e-mail .

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OSPI is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from job seekers who will contribute to our diversity. OSPI provides equal access to all programs and services without discrimination based on sex race creed religion color national origin age honorably discharged veteran or military status sexual orientation including gender expression or identity the presence of any sensory mental or physical disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. If you would like please include your name and gender pronouns in your application to ensure we address you appropriately throughout the application process. Persons needing accommodation in the application process or this announcement in an alternative format may contact the human resource consultant listed in Application Process.