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35% Under administrative direction of Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Fire Marshal, serves as the Senior Developer for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT), supporting the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) and the Prisoner Review Board (PRB):

• Provides a full range of complex, professional, and advisory functions in Information Technology (IT) application services.
• Coordinates and conducts complex application development on-site and at user provided facilities using designated software/programming language for database design, program design, and the supplied support tools for testing the new processes while implementing System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes.
• Utilizes HTM, CSS, XML, Virtual PC & Server, system integration, SQL Server & SQL Reporting Service, SharePoint, MS Office Suite, MS Project and MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat/Designer, Visual Studio, ASP .Net Framework, Azure Dev Ops, Data analytics, Document Management Software, Digital Signature Technology, and JAWS in performance of duties.
• Offers comprehensive support for both the application and its user.
• Conducts and coordinates in-depth technical research, feasibility studies, and business and systems analysis to create system designs.
• Performs business and systems analysis by charting process flow, and by performing specification writing, coding, testing, audit trails, control procedures and fine tuning.
• Develops testing plans, specifications, test scripts, and test data for new or modified programs and/or systems.
• Performs testing to ensure logic paths are tested.
• Evaluates test results to verify conformance with program objectives.
• Prepares user and operational guidelines, operational manuals, and application or system documentation.
• Develops new major systems and sub-systems.
• Performs program development.
• Follows adopted system design methodology to ensure the integrity of each system/sub- system meets the required standards of security, efficiency, and scope of the specific project.
• Performs on-line and batch application development/support.
• Applies systems analysis methodologies in the development and preparation of general design, detail design, and program specifications documentation.

30% Serves as project lead on complex projects:

• Maintains and enhances existing IT applications systems.
• Determines and coordinates project components such as project scheduling and assignments.
• Assigns and reviews the work of project analyst staff.
• Provides guidance to assigned project staff.
• Reviews results and incorporates individual components of project into the final product.
• Provides input to the supervisor regarding staff performance on projects.\

15% Analyzes and recommends new procedures and techniques to improve the supported application systems:

• Ensures integrity of each system/sub-system during maintenance and enhancement activities by adhering to the adopted methodology standards.
• Provides mentoring and training to lower-level staff when required.

10% Serves as the primary support for scheduled and remedial maintenance to the assigned applications:

• Schedules processes, reviews history of processed jobs and responds appropriately to any abnormal completion status.
• Provides status reports to management.

5% Keeps abreast of new developments in the Information Technology (IT) field:

• Continues education by attending meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and maintain current on IT products, ven dors, techniques, and procedures.
• Attends demonstrations and exhibitions related to assigned operations.

5% Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.