Imaging and Data Entry Programmer
Job Title: Imaging & Data Entry Programmer
Job Requisition ID: 36404
Closing Date/Time: 04/10/2024
Salary: $6,975-$10,591/monthly
Work Hours: 7:45 AM- 4:15 PM
Work Location: 101 W Jefferson St, Springfield, Illinois, 62702
Union Position: Yes
Work Authorization: The State of Illinois does not provide sponsorship for employment visa status and cannot accept F1 OPT/CPT.
Are you looking for a rewarding career with an organization that values their staff? The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment.
This position serves as the Imaging and Data Entry Programmer coordinating and conducting complex application development using programming languages for the database design and program design.
In this role you will serve as the support for scheduled and remedial maintenance to the assigned applications and as a liaison with user community for changes and enhancements to the Imaging data entry and TIA applications.
If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities, and experience, we invite you to apply for this position to join the DoIT Team!
As a State of Illinois employee, you receive a comprehensive benefits package including:
- Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans
- Flexible work schedules (when available and dependent upon position)
- 10 -25 days of paid vacation time annually (10 days for first year of state employment)
- 12 days of paid sick time annually which carryover year to year
- 3 paid personal business days per year
- 13-14 paid holidays per year dependent on election years
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Pension plan through the State Employees Retirement System
- Deferred Compensation Program – voluntary supplemental retirement plan
- Optional pre-tax programs -Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP) & Dependent Care Assistant Plan (DCAP)
- Tuition Reimbursement Program and Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
For more information regarding State of Illinois Benefits follow this link: https://www2.illinois.gov/cms/benefits/Pages/default.aspx
Essential Functions
30% 1. Under administrative direction, serves as the Imaging and Data Entry Programmer for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT):
- Conducts and coordinates complex application development using programming languages for the database design, program design, and supplied tools for testing the new processes.
- Provides application and user support.
- Conducts and coordinates in-depth technical research and feasibility studies to determine the best application needs for users.
- Confers with users to identify functional and security requirements and determine application requirements.
- Performs system analysis by charting process flow.
- Performs specification writing, coding, testing, audit trails.
- Develops and recommends control procedures, inputs/outputs, forms design interactive system procedures.
- Prepares testing plans, test scripts, and test data for new or modified programs and SQL code.
- Performs testing, ensuring logic paths are tested and other areas of the system are not impacted.
- Evaluates test results to verify conformance with program objectives.
- Performs fine tuning of applications.
- Prepares user and operational guidelines, operational manuals and application or system documentation.
- Follows adopted system design methodology to ensure the integrity of the Legacy Data Access and Imaging Section meets the required standards of security, efficiency, and scope of the systems.
- Utilizes Visual Basic, C#, .NET, Adobe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, MS Project, and Excel in performance of duties.
Essential Functions Continued
25% 2. Serves as liaison with user community for changes and enhancements to the imaging data entry and TIA applications:
- Analyzes Service Requests (SR), identifies system changes, and develops integrated work plans and cost benefits.
- Makes complex systems modification design changes and prepares complex modifications.
- Evaluates systems needs as part of long-range planning efforts and provides recommendations for system changes/enhancements to management.
20% 3. Serves as application development coordinator for full-range major/complex in the Imaging data entry Section:
- Determines and coordinates project components such as project scheduling and assignments.
- Makes day-to-day decisions on unit assignments.
- Provides work leadership, guidance, and direction to staff.
- Reviews results and incorporates individual components of project into the final product.
15% 4. Serves as the support for scheduled and remedial maintenance to the assigned applications:
- Schedules processes, reviews history of processed jobs and responds appropriately to any abnormal completion status.
- Provides status reports to management.
5% 5. Keeps abreast of new developments in the Information Technology field:
- Continues education by attending meetings, training sessions, seminars, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures.
- Attends demonstrations and exhibitions related to assigned operations
5% 6. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to four (4) years college with course work in computer science or directly related fields.
- Requires three (3) years of professional experience in application services or a related Information Technology (IT) field.
Specialized Skills
- Requires three (3) years of professional experience in Visual Basic
- Requires three (3) years of professional experience in programming languages such as C# and.NET.
- Requires three (3) years of professional experience with application development and design.
Preferred Qualifications
- Three (3) years of professional experience in Visual Basic.
- Three (3) years of professional experience in programming languages such as C# and.NET.
- Three (3) years of professional experience with application development and design.
- Three (3) years of professional experience with Adobe, Microsoft Internet Explorer, MS Project, and Excel.
- Three (3) years of professional experience coordinating/leading projects in an Information Technology environment.
- Extensive knowledge of the methods, procedures, and techniques of conducting feasibility studies for system conversions or enhancements.
- Ability to analyze data logically and exercise sound judgement in defining and evaluating problems of an operational or procedural nature.
- Ability to gain and maintain effective working relationships with associates, vendors, clients, and others.
- Developed verbal and written communication skills to present technical information to others with clarity and precision.
Conditions of Employment
NOTE: Applicants must possess the ability to meet ALL of the following conditions of employment, with or without reasonable accommodation, to be considered for this position.
- Requires the ability to pass a position specific, agency required background check.
- Requires the ability to travel.
- Requires ability to work overtime and serve on an on-call basis.
- Requires the ability to work outside of normal hours to meet deadlines.
- Requires the ability to use agency supplied equipment such as laptop, personal computer, work cell phone, etc.
- Requires the ability to attend seminars, conferences, and training to remain current on methods, tools, ideologies, or other industry related topics relevant to job duties.
- Requires the ability to lift and carry objects weighing up to 20 pounds This is considered light work as defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (20 CFR 404.1567(b)). Light work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds.
The conditions of employment listed are incorporated and/or related to any duties included in the position description.