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Principal Applications Developer (Accela)
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Principal Application Developer
The City of Sacramento is seeking a Principal Application Developer with sound project management and technical experience. This position will be responsible for leading a team of application developers in providing complex innovative permitting solutions to enhance business processes throughout the organization. This is a highly technical level position operating in a fast-paced environment, and will be responsible for the development, configuration, and technical support efforts for managing the cloud hosted Accela Land Management Application System. This position supports the implementation of several large technology initiatives and projects that are aligned with the City's Digital Strategy. This position will also support new enhancements and system/data reporting requirements and will make recommendations for implementing new system modules to better support the organization's mission. The ideal candidate will have advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with municipal permitting software, business process analysis, configuration, programming, and project management. The ideal candidate will also establish, maintain, and manage a city-wide project plan for all application functionality requirements, including user interfaces and software customizations to meet the needs of the business staff across different departments and divisions. The ideal candidate will communicate with city staff at all levels. The candidate will also mentor and oversee the work of other technical staff. They will be able to work under tight timelines and completing priorities. Under general direction, the Principal Applications Developer performs a variety of high-level professional, technical, and analytical duties involving research, evaluation, planning, requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, administration and support of new and existing small and large scale systems and databases in a multi-platform environment that includes mainframe, client server, distributed and web based systems. This is an expert professional-level classification populated with multiple incumbents. Principal Application Developers provide the highest level of business and technical expertise and knowledge in the performance of their duties. Incumbents are the recognized experts in their fields. The Principal Applications Developer is distinguished from Senior Applications Developer by the increased degree of difficulty of the work assignment, the greater level of business and technical knowledge required to satisfactorily perform the tasks, and the potential consequences of errors. The Principal Applications Developer provides project management and technical leadership, training and informal work direction to lower-lever Applications Developers. The Principal Applications Developer is distinguished from Information Technology Supervisor in that the latter is the first full supervisory level while the former, which may supervise as an incidental assignment, is the highest-evel technical expert. General direction is provided by and Information Technology Supervisor, Information Technology Manager or other higher-level management staff. Responsibilities may include supervision of technical, administrative staff or project teams.
The City of Sacramento is seeking a Principal Application Developer with sound project management and technical experience. This position will be responsible for leading a team of application developers in providing complex innovative permitting solutions to enhance business processes throughout the organization. This is a highly technical level position operating in a fast-paced environment, and will be responsible for the development, configuration, and technical support efforts for managing the cloud hosted Accela Land Management Application System. This position supports the implementation of several large technology initiatives and projects that are aligned with the City's Digital Strategy. This position will also support new enhancements and system/data reporting requirements and will make recommendations for implementing new system modules to better support the organization's mission. The ideal candidate will have advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with municipal permitting software, business process analysis, configuration, programming, and project management. The ideal candidate will also establish, maintain, and manage a city-wide project plan for all application functionality requirements, including user interfaces and software customizations to meet the needs of the business staff across different departments and divisions. The ideal candidate will communicate with city staff at all levels. The candidate will also mentor and oversee the work of other technical staff. They will be able to work under tight timelines and completing priorities. Under general direction, the Principal Applications Developer performs a variety of high-level professional, technical, and analytical duties involving research, evaluation, planning, requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, administration and support of new and existing small and large scale systems and databases in a multi-platform environment that includes mainframe, client server, distributed and web based systems. This is an expert professional-level classification populated with multiple incumbents. Principal Application Developers provide the highest level of business and technical expertise and knowledge in the performance of their duties. Incumbents are the recognized experts in their fields. The Principal Applications Developer is distinguished from Senior Applications Developer by the increased degree of difficulty of the work assignment, the greater level of business and technical knowledge required to satisfactorily perform the tasks, and the potential consequences of errors. The Principal Applications Developer provides project management and technical leadership, training and informal work direction to lower-lever Applications Developers. The Principal Applications Developer is distinguished from Information Technology Supervisor in that the latter is the first full supervisory level while the former, which may supervise as an incidental assignment, is the highest-evel technical expert. General direction is provided by and Information Technology Supervisor, Information Technology Manager or other higher-level management staff. Responsibilities may include supervision of technical, administrative staff or project teams.