IT Application Developer

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Help protect the consumers of Washington state!

IT Application Developer (IT App Development – Journey)

Salary
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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
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As anIT 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
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Although this is a hybrid opportunity, the successful incumbentmust reside within Washington state andmust be available to report to the Lacey, Washington headquarters building as needed.

Travel
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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
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To protect the people of Washington by ensuring that investor-owned utility and transportation services are safe, equitable, available, reliable, and fairly priced.

Vision
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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
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• 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.

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…