IT Application Development Specialist - Olympia

Salary: $99,300 - 133,608 per year Requirements:

• We require seven years of information technology experience in application development, including designing, developing, and maintaining applications with standard tools and languages.
• Alternatively, we accept an associate degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Web Development, or a closely related field plus five years of application development experience.
• Alternatively, we accept a bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, Web Development, or a closely related field plus three years of application development experience.
• We require four years of experience with the software development life cycle and with applying enterprise principles, practices, and current industry standards to application development.
• We require four years of experience integrating and interfacing PaaS, SaaS, and COTS solutions with different business systems.
• We require four years of experience working in a Microsoft-based environment.
• We require two years of experience leading a Salesforce application team on medium to large development efforts.
• We value experience with Microsoft Azure adoption, governance, and administration.
• We value experience in data governance, data management principles, and the data lifecycle.
• We value experience gathering and evaluating information for impact analysis and documenting functional and non-functional requirements for RFIs, RFPs, solution design, and maintenance.
• We value experience working in an environment where IT security best practices, policies, and procedures are required, audited, and enforced.
• We value two years of experience in human resource management principles, staff development, engagement, accountability, and coaching.
• We expect the ability to learn continuously and apply that learning to improve government programs and processes.
• We expect the ability to respond flexibly and empathetically to the needs of customers and colleagues.
• We expect strong accountability, relationship-building, communication, writing, lean/process improvement, analysis, judgment, consulting, research, stress management, tact, workload management, teamwork, leadership, mentorship, personnel management, and program management skills.

• We design detailed, secure, efficient, and well-structured application architectures and databases.
• We build complex, user-friendly, accessible, and secure web interfaces, including architecture, coding, testing, and implementation.
• We architect reusable application components, APIs, and web services.
• We establish agency development tools and frameworks as standards.
• We review, approve, and validate code changes from fellow developers before they move to testing and production.
• We analyze system issues and provide independent support for failures across small to complex information systems.
• We plan, design, document, write, and maintain code to create, improve, or repair application components.
• We use cloud ETL services to integrate COTS, SaaS, and PaaS solutions.
• We coordinate with vendors, administrators, and technical staff on integration, logging, reporting, security, upgrades, enhancements, and patches.
• We verify successful code migration and implementation, including review of COTS systems.
• We improve logging, reporting, and security across COTS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
• We optimize custom and packaged solutions, including data query performance.
• We optimize data models for Power BI and develop ETL solutions for Salesforce and related interfaces.
• We keep current on emerging technologies and required professional certifications.
• We lead development changes and mentor junior technical staff.
• We gather and document system requirements and acceptance criteria with stakeholders when needed.
• We create test plans, test cases, and support user acceptance testing.
• We train users on new software features and manage deployments and PaaS feature administration.
• We analyze business needs in the context of state and federal rules and recommend innovative solutions that support agency goals.

• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• ETL
• Support
• PaaS
• Power BI
• Salesforce
• Security
• Web
• Ada
• Apex
• Databricks
• DevOps
• LESS

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We are the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, Information Technology Services Division, and we are hiring an IT Application Development - Senior/Specialist to join our Salesforce team in Olympia, Washington. This full-time permanent role is eligible for flexible hybrid telework, with at least one day per week in the office subject to business needs. We serve highly visible systems with agency-wide, statewide, and multi-agency impact, and we support a modern work environment with strong benefits that include medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage, paid leave, tuition support, training and career development, wellness resources, free parking, and other employee programs. We are committed to public safety, customer service, teamwork, transparency, accountability, and DEIB, and we encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply.

last updated 35 week of 2026