Arlington County Government Hiring for Application Developer (Accela Civic Platform) at Remote Full Time

• Position: Application Developer (Accela Civic Platform)
• Location: Arlington, VA (Remote Position)
• Duration: 6 Months

Job Description

Arlington County seeks a full-time Developer to configure and write scripts for our SaaS permitting system (Accela Civic Platform). The individual must possess strong communication, facilitation, business analysis, and documentation skillsets and have proven success in continuous process improvement. The position reports to the Project Manager.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and implementing technical applications, functional enhancements, workflows, application extensions, expressions and interfaces for Accela Civic Platform
• Analyzing application development requirements and product documentation and interacting with vendors to resolve configuration issues
• Collaborating cross-departmentally with operations management, applications and infrastructure teams, and the GIS Developer on data standards, application priorities, system updates and upgrades and API integration changes
• Updating configuration/scripting based on monthly product releases
• Maintaining technical documentation
• Creating and updating reports in Crystal Reports
• System and regression testing

Selection Criteria:

• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills
• Verbal and written communication skills to translate technical information for users at all levels
• Significant work experience providing SaaS/COTS application configuration and support including interacting with software vendors to resolve issues
• A combination of education and/or experience equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Significant education, training and experience that demonstrates competence in and JavaScript and jQuery
• Collaboration with multiple developers utilizing source control software
• Applications support and maintenance of an enterprise level environment
• Developing technical documentation

Preference may be given to candidates with knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Development and configuration of Accela Civic Platform; and/or Accela Expression Builder
• Working in a Microsoft operating environment
• HTML5 and CSS
• SQL Server development
• Crystal Reports
• GIT implementations

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $55.00 – $60.00 per hour

Schedule:

Experience:

• Accela Civic Platform: 5 years (Preferred)
• COTS: 3 years (Preferred)
• SaaS: 3 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote