Programmer Analyst

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Office of Information Technology

Opening Date: January 23 2026

Closing Date: February 6 2026

Job Class Code: 0865

Grade: 23 Professional/Technical Services

Salary: $57651.98 - $80892.86/Annually (*Includes 17% recruitment and retention stipend and eligible for an additional 5% training bonus)

Position Number:

Position Type: Full-Time

Location: Augusta

Telework: Available

You are a talented IT professional who is driven toward success. You are a go-getter always seeking ways to expand your knowledge and encourage others to do the same. You enjoy clearing hurdles as you strive for excellence. If this describes you we want you on our TEAM!!

OVERVIEW:

The application development team within the Maine Office of Information Technology is seeking a highly motivated Programmer Analyst. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work with our team which supports the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) with opportunities to expand in other areas supported by OIT. The DOC is responsible for the direction and general administrative supervision guidance and planning of both adult and juvenile correctional facilities and programs within the State.

MaineIT is seeking a highly talented individual who will represent our C.A.R.E. values in all that they do. At MaineIT we:

• Practice Customer-focus ensuring that our customers are heard and their needs are met.

• Hold ourselves to a high level of Accountability by being transparent with our stakeholders.

• Maintain an effective level of Responsiveness by providing timely updates in a proactive manner.

• Strive to provide Empathy driven people-focused services by applying emotional intelligence skills and behaviors.

Hybrid Work Opportunity The employee in this position can currently work remotely from within the State of Maine as much as 90% of the time.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

An opportunity to have fun learn and develop new skills and work with highly talented team members and business partners! This is your chance to help create modernize enhance and support business-critical systems for the DOC as well as other state agencies. Youll work closely with business users and OIT staff in conducting analysis in support of business objectives defining requirements developing strategies and building/maintaining complex application programs. Youll be challenged every day with new and exciting opportunities while contributing to the agencies business objectives.

REPONSIBILITIES:

This is your chance to help modernize enhance and support business-critical systems for DOC utilizing and Oracle PL/SQL. Youll work closely with other application development team members and business users as well as OIT staff in conducting advanced analysis to meet business objectives defining requirements developing strategies and building/maintaining complex application programs. Youll be challenged every day with new and exciting opportunities while contributing to the agencies business objectives.

• Write application programs of moderate complexity employing higher level languages such as 3 GLs 4 GLs and enterprise class application development tools (examples: Web Core Blazor C#.Net SSIS SSRS and Oracle PL/SQL) to meet user needs.
• Test and debug computer programs to ensure application operates correctly and meets user requirements.
• Study and evaluate user problems and operations to produce feasibility or scope and objectives reports functional requirements and design specifications.
• Implement programs and train users to ensure users are aware of applications critical aspects capabilities and proper use.
• Write final user system and program documentation to facilitate system use and future enhancements. Maintain existing systems and respond to problems to ensure programs remain effective.
• Lead or participate in walk-throughs of system and program designs coding and testing to minimize occurrence of program problems. Attend and participate in vendor agency and computer-based training programs to develop technical skills and expand knowledge of automation technology products and capabilities.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The ideal candidate possesses the following:

• Knowledge of all phases of the software development life cycle as well as the project development cycle
• Strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to write clearly and effectively at a level appropriate to the target audience which will include business users senior business managers project managers and all levels of IT support and management
• Ability to work as a member of a team consisting of onsite and remote technical resources
• Comfortable working directly with end-user communities to capture refine and verify business requirements translate those requirements into technical tasks and implement them into application processes.
• Able to accomplish tasks in a timely manner with limited supervision.
• Produce high quality results and be open to suggestions by peers.
• Desire and commitment to a high level of support to the customer establishing and maintaining a positive relationship.
• Experience in the Microsoft stack languages including C#.NET CORE
• Experience with Oracle PL/SQL is a plus.
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server and T-SQL.
• Exposure to version control systems such as GitHub
• Exposure to JIRA and Confluence
• Exposure to reporting tools like Telerik Power BI and Tableau

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