Applications Developer

  • State of Missouri
  • Jefferson City, Missouri
  • May 04, 2024
Full Time Information Technology and Communication Services
  • Salary: $52,000.00-$70,655.00 per Year USD
  • Salary Top: 70655 USD

Job Description

Job Location:

  • The office for this position is located at 1738 E. Elm, Jefferson City, MO. 65101.
  • Candidates who complete a successful onboarding and training period may be eligible to work at an alternate location in compliance with OA-ITSD's Distributed Workforce Plan.


Why you’ll love this position:

Family And Children Electronic System (FACES) is looking for a highly motivated person to assist in enhancing and maintaining the FACES system. This is a technical position that maintains all components of the FACES system across multiple platforms, languages, and technologies. This position works independently and as part of a team using years of experience to perform software analysis, design, and maintenance.

This position is with the Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division (OA-ITSD) supporting the Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS).

ITSD Core Values - We Innovate and Partner with Passion, Respect, and Integrity United as #OneTeam.

This position will report to a supervisor within the FACES group. The successful candidate will:

  • Continually deliver high-quality solutions that meet customer expectations and provide outstanding customer service.
  • Be involved in all aspects of the System Development Life Cycle (Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance, and Documentation) while adhering to all ITSD-DSS development standards.
  • Learn and develop new skills through various training opportunities.
  • Ensure secure coding and comprehensive testing of all development work to achieve the highest quality releases possible.
  • Document and work to complete assigned tickets including bug fixes and enhancements to various system components.
  • Become familiar with the business processes that govern how the FACES system components are developed.
  • Mentor less experienced members of the team.
  • Participate in weekend and evening on-call support rotation after an initial training period.

    Other duties as assigned.


  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills & the ability to communicate effectively with customers, peers, and management are necessary.
  • Aptitude and desire to quickly learn new technologies and effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical people.
  • Ability to work on multiple projects or tasks at the same time in a fast-paced environment and adapt easily to changing tasks.
  • Ability to research, analyze, and test complex coding and data components to debug issues, as well as determine and code solutions that follow business requirements and FACES programming standards.
  • Experience with COBOL, DB2, and SQL is highly desirable.
  • Experience with javascript, ASP/.Net, VB.NET, CSS, JCL, and TSO is desirable.
  • Experience with the concepts of Project Management is a plus.
  • Successful background check results are required for employment in this position. This may include background checks involving a candidate’s name and/or fingerprints and other screenings as needed for the specific position.


Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant.

Knowledge of the supported business area. Ability to understand client’s needs and technical requirements and implement solutions. Ability to identify and resolve programming issues. Ability to respond to changing priorities. Ability to collaborate with other professionals.

This position is multi-allocated and may be filled at either the Associate Applications Developer or Applications Developer classification; click for more information.

The State of Missouri offers an excellent benefits package that includes a defined pension plan, generous amounts of leave and holiday time, and eligibility for health insurance coverage. Your total compensation is more than the dollars you receive in your paycheck. To help demonstrate the value of working for the State of Missouri, we have created an interactive Total Compensation Calculator. This tool provides a comprehensive view of benefits and more that are offered to prospective employees. The Total Compensation Calculator and other applicant resources can be found here .

Base Pay

52,000

Job Address

Jefferson City, Missouri United States View Map