IT Professional 4 Application Developer

***THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE***

The Client Services Unit within the State of Nevada Govenors Technology Office (GTO) is recruiting for an IT Professional 4 to be located in our Carson City NV office. Information Technology (IT) Professional 4s analyze develop implement maintain and modify in-house vendor created and for purchase (COTS) applications. Incumbents mentor and supervise technical staff; analysis business requirements; create technical requirements and documentation design complex technical solutions; communicate with both internal and external stakeholders; establish and monitor internal processes and procedures; perform advanced level application developer duties including full SDLC processes application maintenance and enhancements. This position will be supporting and developing applications primarily in Visual Studio on platform. Languages include C# JavaScript PL/SQL and SQL Server.

Information Technology (IT) Professionals analyze develop implement maintain and modify computer operations systems networks databases applications and/or information security. Incumbents may perform duties in one or more IT specialization areas depending on the needs of the agency.

Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in computer science management information systems or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience relevant to the duties of the position which may include systems administration network administration database administration applications analysis and development and/or information security two years of which were at the advanced journey level or in a supervisory or project management capacity; OR Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university in computer science management information systems or closely related field and five years of professional IT experience which may include systems administration network administration database administration applications analysis and development and/or information security relevant to the duties of the position two years of which were at the journey level in information security; OR two years of relevant experience as an IT Professional III in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Conduct detailed alternative analyses and determine end-user requirements through consultation with end-users technicians vendors management and others.

Maintain documentation related to the assigned IT specializations architecture operations and other records of work activities as required.

Maintain current knowledge of technological trends and advancements in the IT field as well as security management practices laws policies and ethics.

Participate in recommending and justifying resource allocations and expenditure decisions tracking and recording expenditures preparing purchase requests and writing technical requirements for grant proposals.

Perform related duties as assigned.

Under administrative direction incumbents either: 1) perform duties described at this level and supervise at least one IT Professional III or II or Master IT Professional; or 2) perform duties described at this level within the Enterprise IT Services (EITS) Division for enterprise- level IT systems utilized by multiple departments; or 3) perform IT project management a preponderance of the time to include serving as the project leader; planning organizing and directing project activities; resolving design conflicts; data administration; resource allocation; contract negotiation; timeline development; critical path tracking; justifying the need for additional resources; and coordinating activities with other work units within and outside the organization as assigned; or 4) perform Information Security duties described at this level with at least 70% of the daily activities devoted solely to information security; or 5) perform technology planning and consultation duties within EITS. Technology planning and consultation duties include providing and/or performing: initial contact with agencies to assess their needs and develop their information technology plans; technical support for the Request for Proposal (RFP) process and software and hardware evaluations; guidance and technical assistance in completing appropriate Information Technology (IT) budget request forms; recommendations for feasible and cost effective technical solutions to customer agencies and reviewing agency IT project requests; research information testing and training for IT related issues to ensure viable cost effective technology implementation; and enterprise-wide planning policy and research.

This job specification lists the major knowledge skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge skills and abilities from a previous level.

Applications Analysis and Development:
Detailed knowledge of: access methods and file structures; at least one formal systems design methodology; principles of designing test procedures; principles practices and procedures required to develop design and implement information system-based solutions in a wide range of problem domains; strengths and limitations of several general-purpose programming languages (in software-oriented positions).

Working knowledge of: project control techniques including cost estimating and resource scheduling.

General knowledge of: a network topology and protocol; computer platforms capabilities and support software; supervisory principles and techniques if applicable to the assignment; telecommunications principles and support software.

Ability to: assign work to and coordinate and train subordinate personnel; extract logical commonalities among classes of problems; select appropriate data structures and algorithms to achieve efficient problem representation and resolution; translate data structures and algorithms.

Skill in: problem solving analysis and synthesis.

Recruiter Information: Darrell Morlan -

The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse inclusive and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race color national origin religion or belief age disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy domestic partnership genetic information (GINA) or compensation and/or wages.

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