IT Specialist at City of Sunnydale – California

PLEASE NOTE: This posting is for demonstration purposes only. Please do not apply as this is not a true job opening.

• Evaluates and determines the feasibility of manual and automated procedures and systems to ensure efficient operations and to provide electronic data processing solutions;
• Develops and implements needed modifications and enhancements to existing programs and procedures and maintains detailed documentation of same;
• Prepares recommendations and reports;
• Develops diagrams and specifications for manual and automated procedures, systems analysis and programming;
• Writes, modifies, tests and integrates complex programs into production environment;
• Prepares and implements library and procedural changes and documents same;
• Assists in the installation and programming modifications to systems and software packages;
• Assists in troubleshooting for software and hardware failures to identify and resolve errors;
• Monitors and reports on development initiatives;
• Confers with IT staff and end users during development initiatives and documents completion of same;
• Keeps abreast of all primary and ancillary department information systems;
• Keeps abreast of IT Systems capabilities and limitations;
• Performs integration testing of new and / or revised systems;
• Identifies technical needs of users, provides design specifications to programmers to develop a solution for the need and tests solutions to address these needs;
• Submits Ad Hoc Reporting;
• Inputs and maintains data and produces reports in accordance with department regulations;
• Assists in the maintenance of Data Warehouse;
• Attends departmental meetings as required;
• Performs related duties as required.

(A) Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or a closely related field
Or,
(B) Associates Degree from an accredited college, university or business/technical institute in Computer Science or a closely related field and two years of qualifying experience*; (please see below)
Or,
(C) Completion of a program of instruction (minimum of 300 hours) in the Computer field at a commercial school registered by the New York State Department of Education or an out-of-state branch of that school and five years of qualifying experience; (please see below)
Or,
(D) An equivalent combination as defined within the limits of A, B and C.
*QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE:
Must be working experience with client-server and personal computer using programming languages to write code in languages such as BASIC, VISUAL BASIC, ACCESS AND SQL, or a closely related language. Applicants must also have experience in the development and support of .NET applications using ASP. NET. VB,NET, C#, VB, MS SQL, VS 2003/2005, HTML, and JavaScript,
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:
Possession of a current NYS Drivers License, which must be presented at time of appointment and maintained during employment.
Note: Verifiable part-time experience will be pro-rated to meet full-time experience requirements.