INFO TECHNOLOGY SECTION LEADER-SES (WORKING TITLE: APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER)- 43002033

Requisition No: 856395 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: INFO TECHNOLOGY SECTION LEADER-SES (WORKING TITLE: APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER)- 43002033

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 43002033 

Salary:  $95,000.00 - $115,000.00 

Posting Closing Date: 07/17/2025 

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*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****

WORKING TITLE: APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

CLASS TITLE: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTION LEADER - SES

DIVISION: OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BUREAU: ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

SPECIAL NOTES:

Four (4) years of experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field is required.  A postsecondary degree in those fields may be used as an alternative for the years of experience on a year-for-year basis.

Additional requirements:

• Seven (7) or more years of software development experience as an application developer.
• Proficiency in the English language.

• Proficient to expert level proficiency as an application developer.

Preference:

• Competent in client-side web development technology languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience with responsive design frameworks.
• Three (3) or more years of leadership experience either managing small teams or taking lead on projects.

This position may be required to occasionally perform duties other than those listed in the position description.

Background check and fingerprinting is required.

The salary range for this position is $95,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year.

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING REQUIRED ENTRY-LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Seven (7) or more years of software development experience, including three (3) or more years of leadership experience either managing small teams or taking lead on projects.
• Experience with object-oriented programming fundamentals.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Understanding of scripting languages.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment within small teams.
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Proficient in the English language.

OTHER KSAs (Incumbent may learn on job):

• Competency in client-side web development technology languages.
• Experience with responsive design frameworks.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:

• This position supervises employees to include communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees. Additionally, this position is required to plan and direct employees’ work and must recommend actions such as to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees.
• Supervising the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications.
• Coordinate the development staff's schedule and ensure effective communication between team members and other IT functional areas.
• Works with teams across the Enterprise Applications group to provide technical direction and mentorship based on approved standards and best practices, developing n-Tier web applications.
• Write clean, scalable code using modern programming languages.
• Provides systems architecture and design for application development.
• Develop technical interfaces, specifications, and architecture
• Create and test software prototypes.
• Design web API’s.
• Use and adapt existing web applications for apps.
• Develop client displays and user interfaces.
• Designs database objects including necessary stored procedures.
• Performs unit and system testing to ensure the designs conform to the solution’s detailed requirement specifications.
• Works within a team atmosphere during development of the enterprise application solutions.
• Assist software personnel in handling project related work and other requirements.
• Coordinate with other software professionals and developers.
• Remain up to date with the terminology, concepts and best practices for coding mobile apps.
• Updates documentation as needed.
• Other duties as required.

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.