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IT Application Developer
State of Washington
Utilities and Transportation Commission
Location
Washington, 98504
Salary
$84,120 - $113,148
per year
Type
Full Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves creating and maintaining software applications for a state agency that regulates utilities and transportation, focusing on updating systems, integrating databases, and ensuring technology supports consumer protection.
You'll work with teams to design, code, test, and deploy secure and reliable digital tools.
It's a good fit for experienced developers who enjoy collaborative problem-solving and want a stable role with work-life balance in a mission-driven organization.
Key Requirements
- Reside in Washington state and be available to report to the Lacey headquarters as needed
- Experience in designing, coding, testing, and deploying software components
- Knowledge of enterprise application modernization and system maintenance
- Skills in database integration and implementing new software features
- Ability to solve complex coding challenges and ensure system stability and performance
- Strong collaboration skills with business analysts, project managers, and stakeholders
- Commitment to delivering secure, accessible, and reliable technology solutions aligned with agency standards
Full Job Description
Respect. Professionalism. Integrity. Accountability.
Help protect the consumers of Washington state!
IT Application Developer (IT App Development – Journey)
Salary:
For this position, Step A is $84,120 per year and Step L is $110,364. The high end of the salary range, Step M, is $113,148, and is typically a longevity step. All employees progress to Step M six (6) years after being assigned to Step L in their permanent salary range.
This recruitment is open until January 22, 2026, at 11:59pm.
UTC reserves the right to make a hiring decision and/or choose to close or extend this recruitment at any given time after seven (7) days. Submitted applications could be used to fill comparable positions that open within the next 60 days.
The Opportunity:
As an IT Application Developer, you provide technical expertise and development support for the commission’s digital services, including enterprise application modernization, system maintenance, database integration, and the implementation of new software features.
You’ll be responsible for designing, coding, testing, and deploying software components that align with the agency’s mission and statewide technical standards.
Additionally, you serve as a primary technical resource for solving complex coding challenges, ensuring the stability and performance of critical business systems.
Through collaboration with business analysts, project managers, and divisional stakeholders, you will ensure that digital services support the commission’s mission by delivering secure, accessible, and reliable technology solutions.
Hybrid:
Although this is a hybrid opportunity, the successful incumbent must reside within Washington state and must be available to report to the Lacey, Washington headquarters building as needed.
Travel:
Local travel, mostly within Thurston County, is required to attend training and meetings. The duty station for this position is UTC’s Lacey headquarters office. Employees are not compensated for travel time between their residence and the duty station.
Our Mission:
To protect the people of Washington by ensuring that investor-owned utility and transportation services are safe, equitable, available, reliable, and fairly priced.
Vision:
We strive to achieve equitable and fair outcomes for both consumers and regulated companies. We prioritize inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
What We Offer Our Employees:
- UTC fosters an environment of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, while striving to hire and retain a workforce from the communities we serve.
- We place importance on a healthy balance between personal and professional lives; offering flexible work schedules, wellness programs, and mobile/telework opportunities.
- Through the state, our employees (and their families) are offered options for medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance.
- We offer enrollment into the state retirement programs and a deferred compensation plan.
- Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year.
For more information about our benefits or working at UTC, please visit our website.
Requirements
Some of What You’ll Do:
- Apply advanced knowledge to write and update web pages and forms; create data connections and queries; design and build object classes, methods, and properties; compose report definitions; design code solutions and database tables; build stored procedures; and create or modify other computer code using Visual Studio, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, and other tools and languages in a mixed Dynamics, SharePoint, .NET, and SQL environment to create and maintain custom applications needed by the agency.
- Interact with customers via meetings, conversations, email, and phone calls to identify application requirements, priorities, and other details needed to complete work assignments.
- Write and conduct automated and manual application tests using test driven development design patterns to ensure additions and changes to applications work as expected and reliably perform to the users’ requirements.
- Write documentation of designs, deployments, system features, and procedures required to maintain applications using DevOps, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and other tools to ensure application maintainability and support troubleshooting.
- Advise and coordinate with the IT Operations section to ensure system stability, support patches and upgrades, and plan application releases and deployments.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Four years’ information technology experience developing and maintaining computer applications (an associate’s degree or completed accredited information technology vocational training program will substitute for one (1) year of experience).
- Advanced experience in Visual Studio, C#, ASP.NET, SQL, and JavaScript.
- Experience or training in Agile development theory and practice
Position Specific Competencies (Knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors):
- Knowledge of application development, database design, developer tools, object class design and development, designing for testing, and release deployment tasks.
- Ability to apply test-driven development procedures and to define and maintain tests for application features.
- Ability and willingness to engage with a collaborative, transparent, and learning- and sharing-oriented environment while completing assignments.
- Customer Focus. Responsive to both internal and external customers. Work with customers to identify needs; assume responsibility for own role in meeting those needs. Ensure commitments to customers are met. Receptive to customer feedback.
- Results Focus. Accepts personal accountability for individual results or share of team results. Manages workload and interpersonal relationships to achieve results: prioritizes tasks appropriately, overcomes obstacles, works with others as necessary, and meets deadlines and quality standards.
- Communication Skills. Demonstrates communication skills (reading comprehension, writing, listening, speaking) appropriate to the position. Shows respect and courtesy in interpersonal communications.
- Adaptability/Flexibility. Open to new ideas. Responds constructively to change and stressful situations. In consultation with supervisor, adjusts plans to meet changing needs.
- Self-Development. Demonstrate proactive learning. Keeps knowledge and skills up to date. Solicits and accepts constructive feedback. Seek developmental assignments to improve skills. Turns challenges into learning opportunities.
Demonstration of:
Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)Competencies (expected of all employees):
- The ability to take action to learn and grow.
- The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.
- EDI Knowledge, Understanding, & Commitment.
- Self-Awareness and Commitment to Growth.
- Cultivating Mutually Beneficial and Trusting Strategic Partnerships.
- Inclusive Excellence & Allyship.
UTC Core Competencies (expected of all employees):
- Accountability
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Communication Skills
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Customer Focus
- Measuring Success and Improvement
- Results Focus
- Self-Development
Desired Qualifications:
- Intermediate experience in developing custom SharePoint 2016 (or later) applications.
Additional Information
READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMPLETELY:
- This position is included in a bargaining unit represented by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE).
- RCW 80.01.020 limits the UTC's ability to employ any person who owns stock in any company the UTC regulates or is otherwise financially interested in such company. Such interests include those of an employee's spouse.
- UTC does not use E-Verify; therefore, we are not eligible to extend STEM-Optional Practice Training (OPT). For information, please visit www.uscis.gov.
How to Apply:
Interested in joining the UTC team? Click the Apply button at the top to begin! To be considered for further screening, ensure you attach the following documents to your completed application:
- Letter of Interest- describing how you meet the position qualifications and why you believe you are the ideal candidate.
- Resume- detailing your applicable competencies, experience and education.
- References - At minimum, three (3) professional references with current telephone numbers and email addresses must be included with your application; one (1) contact MUST be your current or most recent supervisor.
The initial screening of candidates will be solely based on the contents and completeness of the application, including answers provided to the Supplemental Questionnaire, along with the required attachments - letter of interest, resume, and references submitted as part of the application process.
NOTE, indicating ‘see resume’ will not substitute for completing the "work experience" section or supplemental questionnaire of the application packet and may result in your submission being marked incomplete.
All information may be verified; additional documentation may be required. Candidates may be disqualified if the education and/or work experience does not include information used to meet the minimum qualifications of the job.
The UTC is an equal opportunity employer. We want to make sure you have an equal opportunity to join our team.
Our commitment is making sure current and future employees are treated fairly and equally without regard to age, sex (including gender identity), race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or religious or political affiliation.
Persons needing accommodation in the application process may contact the recruiter via telephone on (360) 664-1134 or email the UTC HR office at humanresources@utc.wa.gov. For TTY service, please call the Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6384.
For more information about the UTC, please visit:
www.utc.wa.gov, www.facebook.com/wautc
The State of Washington: http://access.wa.gov
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