What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Applications Developer position at State of Nebraska?
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Hiring Agency
Water, Energy, and Environment - Agency 84
Location:
Lincoln, NE
Hiring Rate
$29.348
Job Posting
JR2026-00021976 IT Applications Developer (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):
01-27-2026
Description
Job Description:
The Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment is seeking an IT Applications Developer for our IT Section. We are looking for a candidate who is service driven, customer focused, team oriented, loves to learn, and has a high personal standard of integrity.
This position performs programming (coding) to create or modify computer applications; participates
in design and analysis of computer applications, participates with other analysts in maintaining
and enhancing computer applications; performs related work as assigned.
The successful candidate would have knowledge RPGLE, PHP, Java, JavaScript and/or C# programming language knowledge, creating web interfaces, developing and maintaining Power i Series DB2 databases, and education/experience in HMTL coding and CSS.
About
Are you passionate about preserving, enhancing, and protecting Nebraska’s environment? If so, please consider a career with the State of Nebraska at the Department of Water, Energy & Environment (DWEE). At DWEE, employees have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and supportive team of mission-focused individuals tasked with maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the quality of Nebraska’s air, land, water, and efficient renewable energy use. Some of the things you can look forward to as an employee of DWEE:
The State offers a competitive benefits package, including 12 days of vacation during first year of service (accruals increase with years of service), 12 days of sick leave during first year of service (accruals increase with years of service), and 13 paid holidays per year. Permanent teammate benefits include:
“The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, marital status, or genetics.”
Location and address of position: 245 Fallbrook Blvd – Suite 100 – Lincoln, NE
Work schedule: Monday – Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Flexible schedule, 10-hour workdays allowed after six-month probation and/or with management approval.
Job Duties
Minimum Qualifications: Experience, education, or training in coding computer applications.
Other
Knowledge of: software development principles and methods; basic math; design techniques, principles, tools. and instruments; principles, methods and procedures for designing, developing, optimizing, and integrating new and/or reusable systems components; software system testing procedures, programming and documentation.
Skills in: using basic math to solve problems; writing computer programs for various programs; effective communication; active learning-working with new material or information to grasp its implications; reading comprehension; writing, debugging and maintaining code; integrating software components; determining output media/formats.
Ability to: apply programming languages; read and understand information and ideas presented, communicate information and ideas so others will understand; reason deductively-apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers and decide if an answer makes sense; recognize a problem; put information in order; organize different pieces of information into a meaningful pattern; concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task over a period of time; perceive similarities and differences in pieces of information; think logically; organize, plan and prioritize work; test, install, implement, document and maintain software; maintain source code; modify and upgrade code as necessary.
If you're currently employed by the State of Nebraska, please don't apply through this external career site. Instead, log in to Workday and open the Jobs Hub - Internal Apply app from your home landing page. You can access Workday anytime through the Link web page: https://link.nebraska.gov/
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive package of pay, benefits, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total compensation.
Check out all that the State of Nebraska has to offer! Benefit eligibility may vary by position, agency and employment status. For more information on benefits, please visit: https://statejobs.nebraska.gov/index.html#benefits
Equal Opportunity Statement
The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics.
Hiring Agency
Water, Energy, and Environment - Agency 84
Location:
Lincoln, NE
Hiring Rate
$29.348
Job Posting
JR2026-00021976 IT Applications Developer (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):
01-27-2026
Description
Job Description:
The Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment is seeking an IT Applications Developer for our IT Section. We are looking for a candidate who is service driven, customer focused, team oriented, loves to learn, and has a high personal standard of integrity.
This position performs programming (coding) to create or modify computer applications; participates
in design and analysis of computer applications, participates with other analysts in maintaining
and enhancing computer applications; performs related work as assigned.
The successful candidate would have knowledge RPGLE, PHP, Java, JavaScript and/or C# programming language knowledge, creating web interfaces, developing and maintaining Power i Series DB2 databases, and education/experience in HMTL coding and CSS.
About
Are you passionate about preserving, enhancing, and protecting Nebraska’s environment? If so, please consider a career with the State of Nebraska at the Department of Water, Energy & Environment (DWEE). At DWEE, employees have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and supportive team of mission-focused individuals tasked with maintaining, restoring, and enhancing the quality of Nebraska’s air, land, water, and efficient renewable energy use. Some of the things you can look forward to as an employee of DWEE:
- 13 paid holidays
- Vacation and sick leave equating to 24 days your first year, accruing immediately
- Military leave
- 156% state-matched retirement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
- 79% employer paid health insurance plans
- Dental and vision insurance plans
- Employer-paid $20,000 life insurance policy
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) through the Federal government
- Wide variety and availability of career advancement as the largest and most diverse employer in the state
- Opportunity to be part of meaningful work and make a difference through public service
- Training and development based on your career aspirations
- Fun, inviting teammates
- A safe and secure environment
- A new modern building in Fallbrook with free onsite parking
- Easily accessible from I-80
- Respected as a valued team member
- Business Casual Dress Code
- Work Schedule: Monday – Friday – After a 6-month Original Probation Period - Flexible schedules and 10-hour workdays may be allowed with management approval
The State offers a competitive benefits package, including 12 days of vacation during first year of service (accruals increase with years of service), 12 days of sick leave during first year of service (accruals increase with years of service), and 13 paid holidays per year. Permanent teammate benefits include:
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- WellNebraska Health Plan
- Direct Primary Care (DPC)
- Mail order Rx (3 month supply) and Specialty Pharmacy program
- Virtual Visits and FREE Nurse line 24 hours a day 7 days a week
- Employee Assistance Program
- Retirement/Investment Plan
- Early Retirement Insurance Program (55 and older)
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Tuition Assistance*
- LinkedIn Learning Access to 16,000 On-Demand Courses
- Direct Deposit of Payroll
- Nebraska State Employees Credit Union
- Deferred Compensation Plan
- Paid Holidays
- Vacation, Sick, Civil, and Injury Leave
- Military Training or Emergency Duty Leave
- Teammate Discount Program
- Charitable Giving through Payroll Deduction
- Coverage is effective the first of the month following 30 days of employment.
“The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, marital status, or genetics.”
Location and address of position: 245 Fallbrook Blvd – Suite 100 – Lincoln, NE
Work schedule: Monday – Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Flexible schedule, 10-hour workdays allowed after six-month probation and/or with management approval.
Job Duties
- Consulting with clients on application issues
- Uses application development tools and utilities as appropriate
- Monitor application usage to ensure consistency and accuracy within design guidelines and agency standards
- Preparing the business problem definition
- Participate in information analysis and organization
- Participate in information collection
- Preparing the economic evaluation
- Participates in the solution development and evaluation
- Development of functional design
- Development of technical design
- Development of the system specifications
- Development of the implementation plan
- Development and delivery of training
- Develop support material
- Provide basic on-going support
- Assist with gathering requirements and building logical model for design analysis
- Assist with creating logical view of business functions
- Assist with gathering requirements for data definition
- Assist in building and managing test data
- Assists in creation of physical and logical files
- Assists with creating relational databases
- Develop program code, assemble/compile code, and debug code
- Perform alpha/unit testing and participate in system program testing
- Prepare program documentation
Minimum Qualifications: Experience, education, or training in coding computer applications.
Other
- Valid driver’s license or the ability to provide independent transportation
- Ability to lift 25 pounds
- Ability to maintain regular and reliable attendance.
- Submit a resume or list on the application specific detailed experience relevant to the position in years and months.
- Submit a current list of at least professional references (previous employers) with valid telephone numbers.
- Experience using an IBM Power I Series (AS/400)
- Experience working successfully in an IBM I (AS/400) environment using RPG or RPG free form coding.
- Utilizing complex SQL in accessing a large complex application database, and DB2/400.
- Experience with IBM WebSphere
- Experience with HTML coding
- Experience with Java, JavaScript, Java EE development and deployment
- Experience with PHP Programming language
- Experience with C# Programming language
- Experience with application development utilizing Adobe Experience Manager Forms 6.5 (Adobe LiveCycle) system designs and forms management.
- Experience with Zend Server
Knowledge of: software development principles and methods; basic math; design techniques, principles, tools. and instruments; principles, methods and procedures for designing, developing, optimizing, and integrating new and/or reusable systems components; software system testing procedures, programming and documentation.
Skills in: using basic math to solve problems; writing computer programs for various programs; effective communication; active learning-working with new material or information to grasp its implications; reading comprehension; writing, debugging and maintaining code; integrating software components; determining output media/formats.
Ability to: apply programming languages; read and understand information and ideas presented, communicate information and ideas so others will understand; reason deductively-apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers and decide if an answer makes sense; recognize a problem; put information in order; organize different pieces of information into a meaningful pattern; concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task over a period of time; perceive similarities and differences in pieces of information; think logically; organize, plan and prioritize work; test, install, implement, document and maintain software; maintain source code; modify and upgrade code as necessary.
If you're currently employed by the State of Nebraska, please don't apply through this external career site. Instead, log in to Workday and open the Jobs Hub - Internal Apply app from your home landing page. You can access Workday anytime through the Link web page: https://link.nebraska.gov/
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive package of pay, benefits, paid time off, retirement and professional development opportunities to help you get the most out of your career and life. Your paycheck is just part of your total compensation.
Check out all that the State of Nebraska has to offer! Benefit eligibility may vary by position, agency and employment status. For more information on benefits, please visit: https://statejobs.nebraska.gov/index.html#benefits
Equal Opportunity Statement
The State of Nebraska values our teammates as well as a supportive environment that strives to promote diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job classifications and at all levels without regard to race, color, religion, sex. age, national origin, disability, marital status or genetics.
Salary : $20,000