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IT PROGRAMMER ANALYST SUPERVISOR

Systems Development Supervisor

Recruitment #21-004472-0005

Introduction

The Maryland State Retirement Agency (MSRA) administers the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (MSRPS). The System is a multi-employer, public employees’ defined benefit retirement system supporting over 400,000 active members, retirees, and beneficiaries.

The Agency is involved in a multi-year re-engineering of its business processes, acquiring and integrating support technologies (e.g., member relationship management, document management, workflow management) and adapting existing pension administration programs to support secure online real-time transaction processing. In addition, the Agency manages a $55 billion trust fund, invested globally, the management of which is also undergoing considerable change.

This is an exciting time to join MSRA's technology team in this critical Systems Development unit position.

If you are a qualified technology professional, here’s what MSRA has to offer:

· Professional development opportunities

· Work with new technologies in a challenging environment

· Working in an organization that fosters continuous improvement, teamwork and cooperation

· Work only a few blocks from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, convenient to Metro, Light Rail and busses (all at no charge to State Employees in the Baltimore metro area)

Enjoy other State of Maryland employee benefits.

GRADE

19

LOCATION OF POSITION

120 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

Main Purpose of Job

Oversee and participate in each aspect of the activities of the developers (a combination of contractors and employees), assuring best practices are followed while creating solutions that support the Agency. Communicate the activities, progress, and challenges of the team to upper management. Responsibilities include: overseeing check-in and code review policies, using code quality reviews and tools (ReSharper, SonarQube, Veracode, etc.) that assure quality work product; forming developer teams for initiatives; recommending and sourcing training as appropriate; assisting in architecting integrated solutions, including a combination of COTS, SAAS, and custom applications; assuring the team is following Agency deployment CI/CD practices and Agile-Scrum practices; assuring the team is keeping current with platform, tool and component versions (VS, .NET/Core, Angular, ), 3rd party UI components (Telerik/Kendo) and other components (ex. Aspose, HangFire); helping to design, improve and implement unit workflows and policies.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other information technology related field. 

Experience: Three years of experience designing, developing, testing, implementing and maintaining applications systems and programs using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools. 

Notes: 

 1. Candidates may substitute six credit hours of coursework in application analysis and programming using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools for six months of the required experience. 

 2. Candidates may substitute completion of high school or a high school equivalency certificate and eighteen months of experience converting data from project specifications by writing program code using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools for the required education. 

 3. Candidates may substitute completion of high school or a high school equivalency certificate and fifteen credit hours from an accredited college or university in systems analysis and application programming using generally accepted computer programming languages or other developmental tools for the required education. 

 4. Candidates may substitute experience in one of the following areas: operating computers, scheduling, controlling input and output or maintaining backups or data storage, processing data on computers, evaluating, implementing and maintaining hardware and software, on a year-for-year basis for a high school education. 

5. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Computer Systems Programming classifications or Computer Systems Programming specialty codes in the Information Technology field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience and education.

SELECTIVE QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum 1-year experience using:

  •  Current Microsoft development tools and platforms including Visual Studio/VS Code, Windows Server and IIS, and Microsoft SQL Server to develop web-based, multi-tiered (UI, Web API, DB, etc.) applications and services.
  • Agile-Scrum methodologies, and tools such as TFS/ Azure DevOps Server
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and Visio, or comparable document, spreadsheet, and technical/process diagramming applications to produce technical documentation with diagrams to communicate solution designs/architectures to the development team.   

DESIRED OR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience leading or supervising systems development teams.
  • Experience building applications that run on highly available, clustered web servers and databases.
  • Experience with modern identity and authentication/authorization methods (2nd factor, ID proofing, OpenID Connect/OAuth).
  • Experience using advanced communication skills, written and oral.
  • Experience with automated unit and end-to-end testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Protractor, Karma, xUnit, Moq, T-SQLT.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Employees in this classification may be subject to call 24 hours a day and, therefore, may be required to provide the employing agency with a telephone number where the employee can be reached. Employees may be furnished with a pager or cell phone.

SELECTION PROCESS

Please make sure that you provide sufficient information on your application to show that you meet the minimum for this recruitment.  All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date.  We will not consider information submitted after this date. 

Successful candidates will be ranked as Best Qualified, Better Qualified, or Qualified and placed on the employment (eligible) list for at least one year.  This list will be used by the hiring agency to select employees.

For education obtained outside the U.S., a copy of the equivalent American education as determined by a foreign credential evaluation service must accompany the application.

Due to the confidential nature of the work, selected candidates must undergo and pass a background check.

EXAMINATION PROCESS

The examination will consist of a rating of your education, training, and experience as presented on your application and as they relate to the requirements of the position.  You may be asked to complete a supplemental questionnaire.  The supplemental questionnaire may be used as part of the rating process.  Therefore, it is important that you provide complete and accurate information on your application. 

For education obtained outside the U.S., a copy of the equivalent American education as determined by a foreign credential evaluation service must be provided prior to hire.

BENEFITS

FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS

Please upload a cover letter and resume with your application (required). Resumes will NOT be accepted in lieu of completing the application, however – you must do both.

The online application process is STRONGLY preferred.  If the online application process is not available, you may submit a paper application and supplemental questionnaire (by the closing date) to:

Department of Budget and Management Recruitment and Examination Division

301 W. Preston Street, Room 608

Baltimore, MD 21201

If you have any questions about this recruitment, please call 410-767-2584. 

For education obtained outside of the U.S., a copy of the equivalent American education as determined by a foreign credential evaluation service must accompany the application. 

All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date.  We will not consider information submitted after this date.

The resulting certified eligible list for this recruitment may be used for similar positions in this or other State agencies.

TTY Users: call via Maryland Relay

As an equal opportunity employer, Maryland is committed to recruiting, retaining and promoting employees who are reflective of the State’s diversity.

People with disabilities and bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

We thank our Veterans for their service to our country.




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