The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce is seeking an experience software developer to help us expand and improve the applications we create to support schools and families. By joining our team, you will become a contributor to some of the most important applications in the Ohio K-12 education system. We create and maintain the applications that distribute over $8 billion in school foundation payments to traditional school districts, community schools, educational service centers, county boards of developmentally disabled and joint vocational school districts. In addition, we process payments for valuable programs like college credit plus which allows students to experience college level course work while still in middle/high school. Your work can directly impact the education of Ohio’s children!

This is a senior/expert level position with a focus on enterprise services, solution design, analysis, and ensuring applications are of consistently high quality. The Department’s payment system is primarily in a Microsoft ecosystem using both on-premises Windows Server and Microsoft Azure, and we are firm believers in exploring and using new technology and services that make our products better. The successful candidate will have a strong background that aligns to our technology direction and a growth mindset that views changing technology as an exciting opportunity. Excellent communication skills are a must to enable team collaboration, information sharing, and quality mentoring.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partners with stakeholders to understand, design, and implement solutions to the Department’s business requirements. Ensure that system independencies, impacts, and risks are identified and properly addressed in the solution design. Lead and/or participate in planning activities such as effort estimation, sprint planning, and design reviews.

• Lead and perform investigation and analysis of technology and processes to improve how the Department creates software. As a technical subject matter expert on a variety of application development subjects, share your knowledge and mentor other IT members to grow the capabilities of the entire team.

• Serve as a primary developer of the school foundation payment application and accompanying web-based reports. Ensure code passes functional, performance, and load tests and adheres to State of Ohio and Department security standards.

• Ensure the Department’s software products are high quality by leading code reviews and assisting with development standards. Lead and/or assist IT leadership with the development, monitoring, and documentation of quality standards.

Key technologies in use today: Python, Django, JSON, .NET/.NET Core, C#, Angular, Oracle, SQL Server, Azure DevOps. The IT department believes in continuously growing the capabilities of our team, so expect frequent training to improve and expand your skills in these and other areas!

The IT department currently operates in a hybrid work model mixing on-site and remote work. We believe in work-life balance including reasonable work hours and a degree of schedule flexibility. Combined with the many benefits of state employment, including top-notch healthcare benefits and a defined benefit pension plan, we believe you will find the Department of Education and Workforce an excellent place to work. Come join us!

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