Position Summary & Responsibilities:

This position will remain posted until filled.

Location: KDA Headquarters - Manhattan, Kansas.

This position will participate as a team member that maintains the division of water resource’s (“DWR”) water rights information database and water structures information system utilized for the regulatory oversight of water rights and water structures respectively. This includes planning, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting changes. Maintenance of related reports, batch jobs and interfaces are the responsibility of this position.

This position will collaborate with other developers on new DWR application projects and provides the chief information officer with status updates on requests as needed. Develop communication and action plans on the strategy to address project requests in a timely manner. This includes planning, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting new application screens, reports, batch processing, interfaces, and data extracts.

This position will update and track progress on trouble tickets and work requests related to DWR's application development team in the helpdesk system. This includes application user management (resetting database passwords), diagnosing and solving database connectivity problems, errors with screens, reports, and data.

This position will consult with DWR staff to analyze software needs and detail software solutions through documentation, workflow charts, system specifications and other methods.

This position will provide training to and solicit feedback from DWR staff on applications developed or maintained by the agency.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Two years of programming/computer science or a related degree is required.
• Four years of work experience as an Application Programmer Analyst in lieu of the two years of formal education.
• Limited independent work experience in applications programming is essential.
• The understanding of proper database design, report development and database normalization is required.
• Employee must have a valid Class C (or higher) Kansas driver’s license or equivalent license from another state. Employee is responsible to maintain an acceptable driving record to safely drive state vehicle and be willing and able to fulfill all job-related travel normally associated with this position.

Preferred Qualifications (not required):

• Any formal Visual Studio or JavaScript training.
• Experience working with Microsoft SQL Server database applications and any reporting tools.
• Experience working with ESRI products and Arcade scripting.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person