Salary: $2,725.50 - $3,563.25 Biweekly
Location : Anchorage, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 56033
Department: Health
Division: DSS-IT Business Applications
Opening Date: 11/10/2026
Closing Date: 12/1/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: DSS - IT Business Applications
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 18,20,22
Job DescriptionThis position will be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 level, depending on the applicant's qualifications and job experience.What you will be doing:The Department of Health (DOH) is seeking a dynamic, creative individual to fill a key Application Developer position. This position will primarily utilize the Microsoft .NET technology stack and SQL Server. The successful candidate for this position will have strong SQL Server experience and skills, the ability to manage quickly changing priorities, strong analysis skills, and outstanding written and oral communication skills. We are looking for a capable teammate willing to grow and learn as they meet the needs of our organization.
Who we are looking for: The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:
- Software Development: Knowledge of the principles, methods, and tools for designing, developing, and testing software in a given environment.
- Information Assurance: Knowledge of methods and procedures to protect information systems and data by ensuring their availability, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.
- Technical Expertise: Effectively applies technical knowledge to solve a range of problems; develops technical solutions to new or highly complex problems that cannot be solved using existing methods or approaches; is sought out as an expert to provide advice or solutions in the technical area.
Special Notice:
- The successful candidate must pass a comprehensive background investigation, which includes a criminal history check.
To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for Application Developer 1/2/3: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs
Minimum QualificationsCompetency-Based Minimum Qualifications InstructionsThis job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.
Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.
Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.
Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.Application Developer 1Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
- Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of electric circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Continual Learning: Assesses and recognizes own strengths and weaknesses; pursues self-development.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training in computer programming or system analysis and/or experience using a computer for analysis (including experience in the use of computer reporting languages); providing software/hardware installation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and support to end-users; and/or direct computer programming.
Application Developer 2Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.
- Computer Languages: Knowledge of computer languages and their applications to enable a system to perform specific functions and skill in designing, writing, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training in computer programming or system analysis and/or experience writing, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, or maintaining a computer program's source code.
Application Developer 3Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:
- Adaptability: Adjusts planned work by gathering relevant information and applying critical thinking to address multiple demand and competing priorities in a changing environment.
- Computer Languages: Knowledge of computer languages and their applications to enable a system to perform specific functions and skill in designing, writing, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.
- Customer/Quality Focus: Anticipates, monitors, and meets the needs of customers and responds to them in an effective, appropriate manner. Demonstrates commitment to identifying customers' apparent and underlying needs and continually seeks to provide the highest quality service and product to all customers.
Equivalent to those typically gained by:
Training in computer programming or system analysis and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, testing, troubleshooting, or maintaining computer applications.
Special Note:A position may focus on working in one or more computer languages. Which language(s) will be specified when recruiting to fill the position.
"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
"Training" means the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, online, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.
"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.
"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.
Additional Required Information At the time of the interview, please provide the following: - Three (3) professional references whom we may contact by phone are required. One (1) of these references must be your current or most recent supervisor, if not already provided in the application.
- Current performance evaluation, if available.
- A copy of academic transcripts (unofficial is okay; please ensure that the institution name/URL is listed on the transcripts) is used to support that you meet the minimum qualifications competencies.
- Any professional certificates related to computer programming you may have.
Please read the information below carefully. This applies to your application submission.SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS For your application to be evaluated, you
must answer the Supplemental Questions.
FLEXIBLY STAFFEDThis position is flexibly staffed. This vacancy may be filled at either the 1, 2, or 3 levels, depending on the applicant's training and/or experience. The full range of salaries is listed above. The starting salary will be determined by the position level. If filled at a lower level, promotion to the higher level will only occur upon successful completion of the probationary period and the required training, provided the applicant meets the minimum qualifications of the higher job class and receives final approval from the supervisor.
APSIN CHECK This position requires the use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (APSIN). A security clearance issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) is necessary to use APSIN. DPS will deny security clearance for any applicant who has been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in this state or another jurisdiction or who may be a fugitive from justice. Additionally, security clearance will be withdrawn if DPS discovers that material information was falsified or omitted at the time of the initial security clearance application.
EDUCATIONTo verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts) Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATIONIf education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university.
It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. The omission of the required documentation listed will result in an incomplete application, and you will not receive further consideration.
WORK EXPERIENCEWhen using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met. Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application. If the
