Posting number: 2795-26-OPS-DS-E-056
Department: Lottery
Job classification: Departmental Specialist 13
Posting type: Open
Categories: IT and Computers, Professional
The Michigan Lottery is looking for a dependable, honest, motivated, and hardworking individual with a positive attitude and strong ethical standards to join our team!
The Michigan Lottery was established under the authority of Public Act 239 of 1972 to generate funds to support Michigan’s public-school system and generates revenue through the sale of Lottery tickets at retail locations and over the internet. Profits from lottery revenue are used to supplement state education programs.
This position serves as the Bureau of State Lottery's as staff specialist and subject matter expert for business testing, systems integrations and data exchange activities supporting both Retail Lottery and iLottery operations. This position coordinates and executes User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) for new games, promotions, system enhancements, and vendor implementations while ensuring the integrity of business processes and data exchanged between Lottery systems and external vendors. This position analyzes business requirements documents to determine impacts to system interfaces, reports, automated processes and file transmissions; validates system functionality through end-to end testing; and reviews control files, transactional files, balancing reports, and other system interface files to ensure accurate processing of data. Working closely with internal business units, partner agencies, and multiple vendors, this position researches discrepancies, validates system changes, supports production readiness, and ensures Lottery systems operate as intended across Retail Lottery and iLottery platforms. The position also works as the staff specialist responsible for vendor contract compliance by analyzing system issues and interpreting contract requirements to assess liquidated damages.
View the entire job specification at:
https://www.michigan.gov/mdcs/-/media/Project/Websites/mdcs/JOBSPECS/D/DepartmentalSpecialist.pdf
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Possession of a bachelor's degree in any major.
Four years of professional experience, including two years equivalent to the experienced (P11) level or one year equivalent to the advanced (12) level.
To be considered for this position, you must submit to the following initial background check requirement(s). In accordance with Civil Service Regulation 2.07, you may be sanctioned from applying to positions with the State of Michigan, permanently or up to (3) three years, should you fail to pass/submit to the pre-employment drug test. Under Civil Service Regulation 3.06, you may be sanctioned from applying to positions with the State of Michigan, if you make any false statements or omissions of a material fact during the selection process. Civil Service Rule 2-7 requires that all persons who are not currently state employees submit to and pass a pre-employment drug test. This urine sample test must be administered within 24 hours, or your offer may be rescinded. An applicant must remain at the testing site until the testing process is completed and permitted up to 3 hours to provide a sufficient specimen. It is considered a refusal to test if an applicant fails to provide a sufficient amount of urine for a drug test within the allowed time. Positions within the Bureau of State Lottery will require a criminal history background check.
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