OVERVIEW: 

The Maine Office of Information Technology’s Application Development team is seeking a Senior Programmer Analyst to help build and support software applications for the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and other departments. The selected individual will work with a team of other dedicated developers to maintain the MOSES suite of applications and to develop new applications where needed. 

This position offers the opportunity to work first-hand on the development and maintenance of IT systems supporting the State’s natural resources agencies using the Oracle and Microsoft technology stacks. 

Hybrid Work Opportunity – The employee in this position currently has the opportunity to work from home as much as 90% of the time provided the work is performed within the State of Maine. Regularly scheduled in-office days are also required 10% of the time. 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? 

• You will be a member of a highly productive technical team using a variety of technologies to design and provide technical solutions for business problems.  

• You will have the opportunity to work in a small, independent, and flexible team environment.

• You will help resolve technical issues to provide system functionality and data integration.

• You will experience new and different challenges on an ongoing basis.

• You will have opportunities for training and career development.

WHAT WILL YOU DO? 

This is technical services work involving the development, enhancement, and maintenance of a variety of complex systems. You will help to: 

• Design, develop, test, and maintain application code.  

• Partner with technical staff and end-users to test and refine your work.  

• Work under limited supervision. 

• Supervise, coach and train junior programmers. 

• Comply with State of Maine standards for production, quality, and productivity. 

• Train system end users, serve as an information resource, develop resource materials, and provide ongoing support. 

• Respond to customer support escalations. 

• Write documentation for system references. 

• Support occasional off-hours system updates and patching. 

• Stay on top of new technology trends and ongoing opportunities for education. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 

The ideal candidate possesses the following: 

• Demonstrated ability to define and resolve complex technical problems independently.

• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing to both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Five years’ experience with Java developing and supporting software applications, websites, web apps, web services, and mobile apps. 

• Three years’ experience with Oracle databases and PL/SQL.

• Experience in the Spring Boot framework.

• Experience with version control software such as Subversion, Git, and GitHub.

• Experience with basic web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, etc.)

• Experience in Thymeleaf,Javascript,and Jasper Reports.

• Experience in building solutions with the Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI).

• Experience in integrating data feeds from disparate systems.

• Ability to work as a member of a team consisting of onsite and remote technical resources.

• Able to accomplish tasks in atimely manner with limited supervision.

• Desire and commitment to a high level of support to the customer, establishing and maintaining a positive relationship. 

• Ability to establish andmaintain effectiveworking relationships.

• Ability to lead, coordinate the activities of, and provide technical support to project teams.

Experience in these areas is a plus:

• Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL

• Microsoft Access

• SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS)

• Governmental and business systems.

• GIS tools, preferably the ESRI environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: