Job Description

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About the Comptroller's Office

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Culture

Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.

If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!

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General description

The IT division is looking for a strong Natural developer or Natural Administrator, who is interested in working with and learning from experienced Natural Administrators to support installation, maintenance, and daily support of the Comptroller's Software AG products. This person will be learning the Comptroller's environments where Software AG products are installed and will work with Natural developers on daily use of Software AG products such as Natural, Predict, PAC, NaturalONE, EntireX and Integration Server, and will assist the Natural programmers as they develop APIs to mainframe Natural application objects. Your workday will involve continuous learning and development, solving customer and technical issues that arise, working projects and demonstrating your teamwork skills in brainstorming sessions to resolve reported issues and/or to design solutions for our customers' IT needs. You would be a great fit for this role if you are detailed and solution oriented, and are ready to expand your programming skills to learning how to implement and support the infrastructure of our Natural programming environment.

Work Hours

Work hours are 8:00AM to 5:00PM, 40-hour week, Monday - Friday. Occasionally will work additional hours including weekends and holidays. Performs rotating on-call duties related to Natural Administration and Technical Support (24 x 7). Hours may change based on business need. Work on-site during normal Sunday 5am-10am maintenance window as required.

Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e. report to office 1 day/month, 1-3 days/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.



Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.

• Five (5) years' experience within the last 10 years of the following:

--> Full time Experience working as a Natural Administrator and/or a Natural Developer, with Software AG's Natural.

--> Experience analyzing and supporting mainframe Natural applications

--> Experience with IBM utility programs and products

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related field.

• Experience with Software AG's Predict.

• Experience with Software AG's Adabas;

• Experience with Software AG's Natural for Db2

• Experience with Software AG's EntireX Broker in a server environment (Windows and Unix)

• Experience with CICS

Substitutions

One additional year experience, within the last 10 years, in analyzing and supporting Software AG's Natural and associated system software may substitute for thirty semester hours of the required education with a maximum substitution of 120 semester hours (four years).

In this role you will:

• Performs Natural Administration function for Natural and related products. Provides technical support for users and mainframe software developers for Natural-related issues. Researches coding related problems, either technical or performance related, and implements solutions, including communication with vendor to obtain solutions when necessary.

• Plans, installs, maintains, upgrades and administers Software AG's Natural and related software products and provides documentation for all software changes. Performs administrative level testing when Natural or related products or products that Natural interfaces with are upgraded.

• Manages work activities, communicating with management and other team members in a timely and effective manner.

• Performs mainframe disaster recovery activities for section including but not limited to, participating in disaster recovery hot site exercises and managing the mainframe's Software AG's Natural environment and updating documentation.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Veterans:

To receive veteran's preference a copy of your DD214 (Member 4) is required.

Veterans, Reservist or Guardsmen with an MOS or additional duties that fall within the essential duties of the job position or other related fields pertaining to the minimum experience requirements may meet the minimum qualifications. All active duty, reservists, guardsmen, and veterans are encouraged to apply if they meet the qualifications for this position. Please call Human Resources, CPA Veterans Liaison at 512-475-3560/800-531-5441 for more information or assistance.

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Important Notes to the Candidate:

Salary is contingent upon qualifications. CPA employees in the same job classification, if selected, will be laterally transferred with no increase in salary. (An example might be an Accounts Examiner III in Revenue Administration who moves to an Accounts Examiner III in the Enforcement division).

If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.

Applications submitted through Work In Texas:

Work In Texas (WIT) applicants must complete the supplemental questions to be considered for the posting. To complete the supplemental questions please go to CAPPS Recruit to register or login and access your profile.

The Comptroller's Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.