Senior Developer @ Los Angeles Unified School District - Los Angeles, CA

We are LAUSD. We are at the forefront of innovation in public education,

focused on a clear and inspiring vision of the future for all of our students

as they venture forward on their journey as lifelong learners. Here, you

will have the opportunity to exercise your potential in a role supporting

the business of education. Our work directly contributes toward the goal

of ensuring that our students graduate ready for the world – ready to
thrive in college, career and life.

LAUSD is the second largest school district in the nation with an

enrollment of nearly 575,000 students. We serve an area totaling 710

square miles, with over 1,190 schools and educational centers, and we

employ over 74,000 individuals, making us one of the largest employers

in our city.

Benefits Insurance: Paid premiums for your choice of several medical, dental,

vision, and life insurance plans. Retirement: Membership in the California

Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS).

Vacation: Two weeks of paid vacation to start. Three weeks after five

years of year-round paid service.

Paid Holidays: Up to 13 days.

Job Duties/Responsibilities The following list includes the essential job duties/responsibilities of this

classification:

• Serves as the lead applications developer by managing the design,

development, implementation, upgrading, configuration, and

maintenance of both new and existing software and mobile applications,

and provides functional and advanced technical support when required.

• Leads the design and development of cloud implementation strategies

for school based software applications.

• Identifies, evaluates, troubleshoots and resolves application issues and

oversees and guides other application developers in troubleshooting

applications.

• Works closely with IT software project managers, stakeholders and

support staff to develop specifications and business requirements for the

development of new or modifications to existing software applications.

• Validates and evaluates the work of other developers and tests all

development and upgrades outside of the production environment before

their release into the production environment.

• Collaborates with various ITD Business units and the ITD Project

technical documentation to support District software applications and

build custom applications.

• Develops documentation and conducts training for applications.

• Serves as the technical lead in database design, programming and

implementation.

• Manages data loads and ensures quality assurance by reviewing and

evaluating work product/output.

• Codes by using multiple programming languages such as Sharepoint,

C#, Java, SQL, and Angular with advanced algorithms to ensure

application scalability, efficiency and security.

• Translates complex business requirements into workflows and

specifications for creating software solutions.

To see the complete class description for this position, visit us at

www.lausdjobs.org

Minimum Requirements PROMOTIONAL STATUS IS REQUIRED. You must be a current or

retired employee of LAUSD with 130 paid days in regular status in the

Classified Service or permanent status in the Certificated Service or

have been laid-off within the past 39 months from a regular, permanent

LAUSD position in which you passed probation.

Laid-off employees' eligibility as a promotional candidate expires at the

end of their 39 month period; as such, laid-off employees applying for

promotional career opportunities may not be eligible to complete the

assessment process or may be removed from the employment eligibility

list once their eligibility as a promotional candidate expires.

Education:

Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor’s
degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a

related field.

Additional qualifying experience may be substituted on a year-for-year

basis of the required education provided that the requirement of a high

school diploma or equivalent is met.

Experience:

Four years of experience in software development using two or more of

the following technologies such as: C#, ASP.NET MVC, TFS, Entity

Framework, REST API/Webservices, Ajax, jQuery, SharePoint,

JavaScript, .Net Core, Bootstrap and modern UI design. Two years of

experience using and programming relational Databases. Mobile

application development experience is preferred. Experience can be

concurrent.

Special:

Employees in this class may be subject to call at any hour.

All employees must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated and must be able to

provide verification of their vaccination status as part of the hiring and

onboarding process prior to an official offer of employment to any District

site; this includes current employees who are being promoted to a new

job class.

Desirable Qualifications The ideal candidate would have the knowledge of:

• Web application/site design and development

• Structured programming, object-oriented programming, and design

patterns

• Data management, SQL database design, and RDBMS technologies

• Programming languages including .NET framework 4.5 (or higher) or

.NET core 2.0 framework, including C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Entity

Framework, ADO.NET

• New trends in the field of information technology

• Principles of program documentation, TFS source control management,

DevOps concept, and

• Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) implementation

• Test-driven development and automated testing

• Design of modern and responsive web UI that are cross-browser

compatible.

• Web related technologies including HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript,

jQuery, REST API, JSON, Ajax, TypeScript, Angular.

• Report development tools such as Crystal Reports, Oracle Reports,

Power BI, SQL Server

• Reporting Services (SSRS), SSIS, Tableau, etc.

• Hybrid mobile application development using frameworks such as

Cordova, React, Xamarin, Vue.js, Angular.js, and Node.js

• Industry standards and best practices

• Application software project life cycle

• Project management principles

The ideal candidate would also have the ability to:

• Establish programming, quality assurance standards, and practices for

application development in the technical environment

• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing

• Express difficult concepts in a manner that is understandable to both

technical and non-technical personnel

• Work effectively with all levels of District personnel and the public

• Manage multiple concurrent projects

• Work independently with minimal supervision

• Develop test data and analyze problems in programs

• Learn the characteristics of new systems and update skills to adapt to

changing technology

Employment Selection Process The selection process for this position will tentatively consist of the

following: Technical Interview.

Please be sure to include correspondence from @lausd.net as an

approved sender so that messages aren't accidentally placed into your

spam/junk e-mail folder.

For more information about the LAUSD employment assessment

process, visit the 'My LAUSD Career' section of our website at

http://www.lausdjobs.org .

Application Process DO YOU NEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WITH THE ON-LINE

APPLICATION?

Please visit www.lausdjobs.org and click on "help desk service request

form" located to the left of the Quick Links.

To find out whether the application deadline has been extended, visit the

website at: http://www.lausdjobs.org .

The Los Angeles Unified School District intends that all qualified persons

shall have equal opportunities for employment and promotion.

Reasonable accommodations in completing an application and testing

are available to individuals with disabilities. Please call (213) 241-3455

for more information.

Additional Posting Information Selection and promotion are based on a competitive employment

assessment process. Candidates who pass all parts of the assessment

process are placed on a hiring (eligibility) list based on their assessment

score. Hiring departments may make job offers to candidates on the top

three ranks of the hiring list. Eligibility typically lasts for 12 months. The

hiring list resulting from this assessment process may be used to fill open

positions in related job classifications.