About Us:

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce is a diverse team of passionate, education-focused professionals responsible for overseeing and enhancing the quality of education for each of Ohio's 1.7 million students. The Department provides the resources and supports essential to raising student achievement and accelerating learning opportunities, advancing the connectivity between K-12 and postsecondary learning, creating programs to support and expand workforce experiences, and ensuring students have the necessary supports to be ready each day to learn.

As the governing body responsible for overseeing and enhancing the quality of education within the State of Ohio, the Department of Education and Workforce is dedicated to promoting educational excellence and ensuring equal access to learning opportunities for all students. The Department is committed to collaborating with schools, districts, educators, students, families, businesses, nonprofits and all stakeholders to achieve our educational goals.

What's in it for you:

At the State of Ohio, we take care of the team that cares for Ohioans. We provide a variety of quality, competitive benefits to eligible full-time and part-time employees. For a list of all the State of Ohio Benefits, visit our Total Rewards website ! Our benefits package includes:

Medical Coverage

• Quality, affordable, and competitive medical benefits are offered through the available Ohio Med plans.

Dental, Vision and Basic Life Insurance

• Dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums are free after completed eligibility period . Length of eligibility period is dependent on union representation.

Time Away From Work and Work/Life Balance

• Paid time off, including vacation, personal, and sick leave
• 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth/Adoption leave

Employee Development Funds

• The State of Ohio offers a variety of educational and professional development funding that varies based on whether you are a union-exempt employee or a union-represented employee.

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System

• OPERS is the retirement system for State of Ohio employees. The employee contributes 10% of their salary towards their retirement. The employer contributes an amount equal to 14% of the employee's salary. Visit the OPERS website for more information.

Deferred Compensation

• The Ohio Deferred Compensation program is a 457(b) voluntary retirement savings plan. Visit the Ohio Deferred Compensation website for more information.

Primary Technology: .NET Framework

Secondary Technology: Microsoft Azure

60% - 24 hours per week

1. Develops and modifies custom software applications.

• Create, edit, test, and/or compile software code to create new software products and processes and/or add new or modify existing functionality to existing products and processes.

• Develop software in the Department's Microsoft Azure tenant, on-premise environment (Windows Servers), and/or other environments and platforms as needed.

• Develop software using a variety of Department standard tools, technologies, and frameworks including (but not limited to) .NET, .NET Core, C#, Angular, Blazor, Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Oracle, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Team Foundation Server, Azure DevOps, ReSharper, CheckMarx, and SonarCube.

• Optimize code to ensure performance and load requirements are met.

• Ensure code adheres to Department and state secure coding standards, procedures, patterns, and/or best practices.

• Create required documentation, including (but not limited to) Tasks in Azure DevOps and/or Team Foundation Server to plan and describe work performed and effort expended, in-line code comments, and narratives as needed (emails, knowledge base articles).

20% - 8 hours per week

2. Analysis and design.

• Work with IT and business stakeholders (IT supervisors, architects, senior developers, testers, project managers, business analysts, program staff) to understand the business problem to be solved; analyze the solution options; and create user stories and/or requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Perform impact and risk analysis on solution options to identify interdependencies among systems, services, and/or APIs. Identify and document new technical requirements to mitigate or remediate predicted risk or impact.

• Participate in technology analysis, evaluation, selection, and standardization related to software development. Illustrative examples include (but are not limited to) selecting software development patterns or single-page application frameworks.

• Participate in and plan work using agile practices, including (but not limited to) sprint planning, backlog management and grooming, effort estimation (e.g. story points), and stand up meetings.

• Assist with or lead design reviews, and write design documentation.

10% - 4 hours per week

3. Ensures Department products are of high quality

• Participate in code reviews of your and/or other team members' code.

• Create and review test and mockup data for performing test scenarios.

• Writes and executes unit and integration tests.

• Work with application testers to coordinate execution of system level test scripts, including (but not limited to) functional, integration, security, performance, and load testing.

• Remediate bugs and defects identified during testing, and track remediation efforts in Azure DevOps and/or Team Foundation Server.

• Support and participate in user acceptance testing as needed.

• Participate in development, implementation, monitoring and documentation of quality assurance, security, and testing standards.

5% - 2 hours per week

4. Training

• With the supervisor, creates and follows a professional development plan.

• Maintains and updates job related skills using available resources, including (but not limited to) online training provided by the Department and partner agencies or companies; relevant books, articles, webinars, forums, and conferences; or other resources deemed appropriate by the supervisor.

• Shares acquired knowledge with peers and co-workers, in both informal (one-on-one, team meetings) and structured settings (trainings, mentorships, etc.) as appropriate.

5% (2 hours per week)

5. Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
60 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: assuring requirements are defined and approved, performing code reviews and ensuring application development standards are met including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology as specified by the agency position description & job posting.

-Or completion of associate core program in computer science or information systems; 42 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: assuring requirements are defined and approved, performing code reviews and ensuring application development standards are met including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology as specified by the agency position description & job posting.

-Or completion of undergraduate core program in computer science or information systems; 36 mos. combined work experience in any combination of the following: assuring requirements are defined and approved, performing code reviews and ensuring application development standards are met including 12 mos. work experience in the primary technology as specified by the agency position description & job posting.

-Or equivalent of minimum class qualifications for employment noted above. Note: The official position description on file with the designated agency is to reflect the required, primary technology directly relating to the duties of the position. Only those applicants possessing the experience in the required, primary technology listed in the position description & job posting are to be considered for any vacancies posted. The job posting must list the required technology commensurate with the position in question.

Job Skills: Software Development/Implementation