Description

Our Mission: Keep Washington Safe and Working!

Our Values: Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability

About the Division and Office

The Information Technology (IT) Division is an internal service organization responsible for providing information technology-based products and services in support of the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) agency business priorities so that L&I can keep Washington Safe and Working. The mainframe program is responsible for managing L&l's Industrial Insurance applications, which are the agencies priority one systems. These applications are crucial for effectively managing the worker compensation program and are used by over 3,000 staff. These applications include both internal and external-facing applications that support Health Services Analysis (HSA) business processes.

The Medical Information Payment System (MIPS) is L&I’s Industrial Insurance billing system. MIPS has over four (4) million lines of code and processes a minimum of 20,000 bills per day which equate to over 500 million dollars each year. MIPS has both an online and batch component and contains more than 600 modules. MIPS has 1,200 users across 16 teams, and supports 100 thousand credentialed providers, making it one of the agencies’ most critical applications and databases.

The Mainframe program is made up of four (4) units that support critical operations of the domain. The Claims, Employer Systems, MIPS, and Operational functions are critical to balancing the support of aging systems. This position reports to the Director of Mainframe Operations and Strategy and serves as the supervisor of the MIPS Mainframe team, supervising entry, journey and senior level staff.

About the Role

As the IT Application Development – Senior/Specialist, you will serve as the Senior Application Development and supervisor for the MIPS Mainframe and .NET product teams and will provide expert technical leadership, system design authority, and supervisory oversight for an application that supports statewide medical billing, provider payments, and industrial insurance operations. These are services injured workers and medical providers across Washington depend on every day.

In this role, you’ll lead the design, architecture, and modernization of MIPS. You will make sure it stays reliable, high-performing, and continues to meet legislative and policy requirements. You’ll direct a multidisciplinary team of IT professionals and give advanced consultation and architectural guidance on high-risk system components. You will also manage projects that deliver agency-wide infrastructure upgrades and enhancements to Insurance Services applications. This is an advanced-level programmer/analyst position with a high degree of autonomy. You’ll independently develop, enhance, and maintain multiple complex applications across several programming languages and technologies, often leading those efforts and balancing several projects at once. Your deep understanding of the mainframe will be key to solving difficult problems and guiding sound technical decisions.

Duties

Some of what you’ll do:

• Mainframe MIPS Programming
• System Analysis
• Maintenance and Critical Response
• Understanding Customer Needs
• Scrum master for MIPS Mainframe product and MIPS .NET Product Team
• MIPS Mainframe and .NET Team Supervisor

Qualifications

Required: Ten (10) years of direct and progressive professional Information Technology experience: Consulting, analyzing, designing, implementing, maintaining, or programming computer software applications and/or databases and providing technical customer support in Information Technology.

Using all or some of the following technologies: COBOL, NATURAL/ADABAS, JCL, VB, VB.NET, Visual Studio, ASP, ASP.NET, EntireX, MQ Series, Java Script, HTML, XML, SQL Server and MS Access. Ability to solve complex technical problems and apply emerging technologies in mainframe environments.

NOTE: Education may substitute year for year for experience up to four (4) years for a bachelor’s degree and up to two (2) years for an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely aligned field.

Required Competencies: The ability to take action to learn and grow. The ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

Desired: One (1) year of supervisory leadership experience including demonstrated experience leading technical teams, providing guidance, mentoring staff and supporting organizational goals through effective leadership and team management.

Things You Need to Know

At L&I, your voice matters. In addition, L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and security of Washington's 3.3 million workers.