WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE COURTS FOR THE 20TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?
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Great working environment
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Growth and Development Opportunities
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Competitive Benefits Package
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Paid Time Off (Vacation and Sick)
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Public Service Loan Forgiveness Qualifying Employer
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Tuition Assistance
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Paid Holidays
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Retirement Plan Options
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457 Deferred Compensation Plans
The AOC is unable to complete or sign the Form I-983 (Training Plan for STEM OPT Students) due to the circuit not operating a federally required training program.
SUMMARY
This is a responsible, independent, and technical mid-level position working under the supervision of the Chief Information Officer. This position will develop, document, test, performance tune, and support computer applications and processes used by the Administrative Office of the Courts’ users. This position is responsible for meeting with users, analyzing and resolving program problems, and debugging and testing existing and new applications. Working relationships are established with a variety of personnel and vendors. This position requires on-site presence and is not remote. All assigned tasks should be performed at a high level of quality and in accordance with the Administrative Office of the Courts’ (AOC) policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Primary responsibilities of the Senior Computer Information Systems Programmer Analyst include the following: (1) Analyze, locate, and resolve problems in various AOC computer applications to include ad hoc queries, stored procedures, and SQL jobs on Microsoft SQL Server; (2) Debug and test existing and new applications; (3) Develop and maintain Crystal Reports and Microsoft Word templates independently and within applications; (4) Produce documentation for all AOC computer application systems; (5) Act as backup to Internet/Intranet Developers and Computer Information Systems Programmer Analysts; (6) Develop new applications; and (7) Other duties as assigned.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The following duties are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this classification.
(1) Analyze, locate, and resolve problems in various AOC computer applications to include ad hoc queries, stored procedures, and SQL jobs on Microsoft SQL Server:
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Provide support for problems encountered by end users within the AOC applications
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Work with programming staff to develop and/or change existing stored procedures, queries, database schemas, and application programs in response to management requests or user support
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Perform data validation and clean up to improve application performance and/or user experience
(2) Debug and test existing and new applications:
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Write, compile, and modify application programs for computerized systems into program code
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Develop and prepare documents for the general design of solutions that meet system and security requirements
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Develop applications to be used in client/server environments
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Support Microsoft SQL Server databases and instances
(3) Develop and maintain Crystal Reports and Microsoft Word templates independently and within applications:
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Create, revise, and/or maintain Crystal Reports including formulas, sub-reports, and numerous other report features
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Create, revise, and/or maintain Microsoft Word templates including advanced formatting with bookmarks, XML, and fields for mail merge
(4) Produce documentation for all AOC computer application systems:
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Create, revise, and/or maintain technical documentation, detailed system design, programming artifacts, interfaces with databases and other systems/applications, maintenance tips, configuration processes, SQL jobs, etc.
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Create, revise, and/or maintain end-user documentation describing the system changes or purpose, how to use intended features and screens
(5) Act as backup to Internet/Intranet Developers and Computer Information Systems Programmer Analysts:
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Learn technical and programming aspects of the 20th Judicial Circuit’s in-house and vendor-based programs and act as backup
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Travel occasionally to meetings, trainings, etc.
6) Develop new applications:
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Work with Programming Department and users to analyze needs for new programming
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Perform analysis, design, coding, documenting, and implementation of new applications
(7) Other Duties as Assigned
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree from 4-year college or university with a degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related field. Additional relevant experience may substitute for the recommended education on a year-for-year basis.
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Two or more years’ experience in systems analysis and programming is essential.
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One or more years’ experience with Microsoft SQL Server database tools including writing queries.
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One or more years’ experience in application development and programming using Microsoft .NET technologies (VB. NET, C#, ASP.NET); Web design using HTML and JavaScript.
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One of more years’ experience using PL/SQL and/or T-SQL to write database triggers, functions, stored procedures, and manage jobs.
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One or more years’ experience writing Crystal Reports.
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Experience in the court system is preferred.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
- Valid driver’s license
- Maintain CJIS Security Awareness Training – level 4
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general and technical business and computer programming periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, percentages, and decimals.
REASONING ABILITY
Must be able to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. Must be able to evaluate problems, isolate key issues, research and develop alternative solutions and to present management with recommendations that include, at a minimum, the advantages, the disadvantages, and the cost and staff impact of recommendations.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this position you are regularly required to stand, walk, talk, hear, frequently required to feel, reach with hands and arms, occasionally required to sit, climb, or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment for this position is moderate to noisy.
EQUIPMENT UTILIZED
Automobile, personal computers, laptop computers, telephone, scanner, copier, fax machine
