With supervisor approval, incumbents may be eligible for intermittent remote work; however, they must physically reside within the Sacramento region or have the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice.
The Senior Applications Developer position is located within the IT Enterprise Applications Division of the Information Technology Department and serves as a senior technical resource supporting the City’s permitting, planning, and land management operations. The position is responsible for the development, configuration, customization, integration, support, and maintenance of the City’s Accela Land Management / Civic Platform environment, including the public-facing permit portal and related internal business processes. This position is responsible for supporting the City’s permitting and licensing operations by maintaining and enhancing functionality used for permit intake, plan review, fee assessment, inspections, workflow routing, reporting, and customer-facing services. Additionally, this position works closely with business users, inspectors, supervisors, department leadership, vendors, and other IT teams to resolve issues, deliver system enhancements, improve business processes, and support City priorities related to permitting modernization and customer service.
IDEAL CANDIDATE STATEMENT
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience supporting enterprise permitting, planning, licensing, or land management systems in a public-sector or similarly complex operational environment. The candidate will be able to work independently, communicate effectively with business and technical stakeholders, and deliver reliable solutions that support daily operations and long-term modernization goals.
The Ideal candidate will have the experience and abilities below:
- Ability to analyze business requirements and convert them into secure, supportable, and maintainable application configurations or technical solutions.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues, coordinating with vendors, and supporting time-sensitive operational needs in an enterprise application environment.
- Experience supporting electronic plan review, document management, GIS mapping, payment processing, financial system interfaces, and reporting/data warehouse integrations.
Additional experience with the following is preferred but not required:
- Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Azure, REST APIs, .NET/C#, Java, or related enterprise application development and integration technologies.
- Accela Land Management, Accela Civic Platform, Accela Automation, and Accela Citizen Access.
Under general supervision, the Senior Applications Developer performs a variety of professional, technical, and analytical duties involving requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, administration and support of new and existing small and large scale systems and databases in a multi-platform environment that includes mainframe, client server, distributed and web based systems.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
This is an advanced journey-professional classification populated with multiple incumbents. The Senior Applications Developer's work involves advanced concepts in the performance of their duties. The incumbents in this classification may provide oversight to other Applications Developers. The Senior Applications Developer is distinguished from that of the Applications Developer classification by the increased degree of difficulty of the work assignments, the greater level of business and technical knowledge required to perform the tasks and the potential consequences of errors by the incumbent. The work of this classification is distinguished from that of the Principal Applications Developer classification in that the latter classification is the highest level technical expert.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
General supervision is provided by an Information Technology Supervisor or other high-level manager. The Senior Applications Developer does not supervise.
Knowledge of:
- Principals and concepts of business process and software design; relational and distributed database technology; networks and communications; and project management.
- Software development methodologies and life cycles.
- Current trends in information technology software, business systems, hardware, networks, and communications.
- Commonly used programming languages, databases, and operating systems on multiple hardware platforms.
- Commercially available software, and application evaluation techniques.
- Applications development and structured analysis methods; data modeling theory and methods; disaster planning and recovery techniques; debugging and error detection.
- Software applications such as finance, human resources, utility billing, geographical information systems, and permitting.
- Advanced level form, screen, and report design techniques.
Skill in:
- The use of design and testing tools and methodologies
- Project Management and planning tools
- The use of various desktop tools
- A variety of complex programming languages, databases and operating systems on multiple hardware platforms
- The appropriate use of relational and distributed database technology
- Maintaining good working relationships with a variety of city staff at all levels
Ability to:
- Communicate effectively orally and in written format in a variety of situations and formats; make group presentations
- Analyze and develop logical solutions and alternatives to problems
- Train others; coordinate and facilitate work with others
- Carry out multiple tasks, projects, and various other resources simultaneously
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION
Education:
Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
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Experience:
Five years professional experience in information technology in a multi-platform environment doing one or more of the following: application development, database management, GIS programming, system analysis/development, and website design/development, project management.
Proof of education such as, but not limited to, university/college transcripts and degrees should be submitted with your application and will be required at the time of appointment. Unofficial documents and/or copies are acceptable.
An applicant with a college degree obtained outside the United States must have education records evaluated by a credentials evaluation service. Evaluation of education records will be due at time of appointment.
