Job Description

Requisition Id: 4439

Salary: $80,928.00 - $103,080.00

Salary Grade: S12

Job Location: Commission Headquarters (JEFFE1)

Note: This position is on-site (Jefferson City, Missouri) and requires full time residency in central Missouri; a hybrid work schedule may be available upon successful completion of 6 month probationary period.

Closing Date: March 23, 2026

Our Culture: The Missouri Department of Conservation supports a culture of trusted professionals that is dedicated to our mission, responsible stewards, and believe in One MDC.

To learn more about the job, feel free to contact the hiring supervisor,Deepti V Manglik at Deepti.Manglik@mdc.mo.gov or at 573-522-4115 Ext. 3809, during regular business hours. We would love to hear from you!

Objective

Direct and coordinate all activities related to the MDC's IT Application development team, including application development and support, database design and support, and application server administration. Supervises specialists, analysts, contractors, and developers. Ensure reliability, scalability, and security across application development platforms through proactive management, modernization, and alignment with MDC goals.

Essential Job Duties

• Oversee the design, development, testing, debugging, integration, documentation, implementation, and support of applications, data, and reporting solutions that create new or integrate with existing applications, databases, and reports using Agile Methodology. Ensure data integrity, security, and performance of the applications/databases/reports throughout the lifecycle. Participate in application, database, and report technology lifecycle work as required to ensure successful and timely delivery of projects and support.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all areas of the organization, groups, consultants, and personnel.
• Integrate security best practices into application design, including Zero Trust, segmentation, and least privilege principles. Collaborate with the cybersecurity team on incident response, vulnerability management, and application/database/report security compliance.
• Support audits, risk assessments, and disaster recovery planning.
• Manage contracts, service agreements, and vendor relationships related to application development services to provide quality service to product owners and users.
• Review and analyze existing applications and reports for effectiveness, and efficiency. Conduct research on emerging or trending application development software, products, languages, and standards. Works with team to respond to these reviews, research, and trends when beneficial to the department. Develop comprehensive application development roadmap, detailing the steps and milestones required to achieve MDC's strategic goals and IT initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term objectives.
• Develop, document, communicate, and enforce functional policies, procedures, standards and quality assurance practices.
• Keeps technical skillsets, such as application development, database design, and reporting creation, current to enable effective and efficient technical coaching and mentoring staff.
• Ensure that applications follow state and federal compliance in terms of ADA and security requirements.
• Hire, manage, and provide direction for the application development team in support of business operations. Provide professional development, coaching, mentoring, motivation, and supervision of staff. Identify and resolve issues and conflicts. Prepare and manage performance evaluations based upon SMART Objectives for the needs of the department and employee's career path objectives.
• Develop, manage, and monitor the Application Development annual budget. Ensure budget requests reflect the needs of the agency and include necessary increases/decreases each year for all assigned budget lines.
• Define and develop current GUI style standards including those for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), as well as remain knowledgeable about emerging GUI standards and trends.
• Defines and implements strategy for the effective prioritization and performance of application maintenance.
• Assess availability of developers for use in maintenance or new projects and communicate this availability with the IT Project Office; negotiate with the IT Project Office on use of development resources for maintenance and new projects.
• Manage the Application Portfolio effectively such as planning, upgrading, coding changes, data changes, and other items as they arise.
• Monitors progress of projects effectively, looks for opportunities for process improvement, and implements the identified process improvements when beneficial to the department.

Ancillary Job Duties

• Perform application back up and application deployment procedure based on release plan documentation.
• Configure web server for new application implementations; Analyze and fix issues that are affecting the performance of an application.
• Coordinate with Consultants and Vendors to implement new applications and provide support to existing applications.
• Support upgrades for system and security software to the latest technology while keeping all essential functions working for the applications.
• Maintain documentation of application design/architectural diagrams.
• Manage and develop performance metrics for the unit.
• Write, translate, and code software programs and applications according to specifications.
• Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and functions.
• Design and deploy data table structures, reports, queries, and data manipulation in accordance with user requirements.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or closely related field.
• At least (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in Information Technology in the area of application development and design, database design and management, and data modeling.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience including two years of professional supervisory experience managing application developers or three years of experience as application team lead.
• Agile Certification, Scrum Certification, and Project Management Certification preferred.
• Must maintain a valid, current Missouri driver's license.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of and ability to perform software development, programming design, project management, systems analysis, code reviews, and service desk ticket management.
• Knowledge of and ability to use programming languages and related tools including (Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, .NET C#, AI code assist tools, AI testing tools, AI data catalog tools, MS Access, SQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of and ability to use Data encryption in MS SQL Database, stored procedures, API's, Application Vulnerability Software (VeraCode), and Project Management software (e.g. Planview PPM Pro).
• Knowledge of and ability to use Incident ticketing System (Ivanti), Google Analytics, Account Management software (such as Okta), or similar tools.
• Research, develop, and implement best practices, workflows, standards, and tools for low-code, automated testing, machine learning/deep learning, and artificial intelligence tools; provide training and assist with policy development in these areas.
• Knowledge of application security principles such as segmentation, encryption, Zero Trust, application server patching, and vulnerability management.
• Knowledge of Data Governance, Agile or Scrum Project Management, Strategic Planning, Disaster recovery, Risk Management, Budget, Resource Management, Financial management, and Change management.
• Ability to supervise a team of 8-10 full stack developers.
• Ability to work with COTS or SAAS solutions for daily organizations productivity and resources such as Human Resource System, SharePoint, Microsoft subscriptions and others.
• Ability to collaborate with infrastructure, service desk, database, reports and analysis, architects, product owners on applications and projects.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with Department personnel and the general public. Such as use of TEAMS, SharePoint, Cisco Webex, phone calls, emails, and others.
• Ability to develop new insights into situations and apply innovative solutions that make improvements.
• Ability to keep focused on understanding, anticipating and responding to the needs of customers.
• Ability to administer financial resources in a manner which instills public trust and accomplishes the Department's mission.
• Combination of IT skills, data governance skills, analytics skills, project management, and data warehouse knowledge.
• Ability to accept change and new information and cope with job pressure and stress.
• Ability to make independent decisions and act quickly and decisively on the determined course of action.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team within office, hybrid, and distributed work environments.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing with Department personnel and the general public.

Work Environment

• Regularly work in a standard office environment.

Physical Abilities

• Remain stationary up to 70% of the time.
• Regularly communicate and exchange accurate information.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
• Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more. Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.
• Regularly lift up to 10 pounds.
• Regular attendance is a necessary and essential function.

Disclaimer

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; an employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required. The Missouri Department of Conservation reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment. Management reserves the right to change job descriptions, job duties, functions, and requirements.

Exemption Status/Special Notes

This position has been determined to be Exempt according to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Employees must agree to accept compensatory time in lieu of cash payments in accordance with the Department's Compensatory Time Off and Overtime Policy.

Salaried and hourly employees are expected to use a mobile device-cellular phone for Department business, as needed.

MDC promotes a Tobacco-Free (smoke and smokeless) working environment.

The Department of Conservation will only hire United States citizens and aliens authorized to work in the United States. All new employees will be required to complete an "Employment Eligibility Verification" (Form I-9) and produce requested documentation after employment.

Candidates seeking initial employment or re-employment must submit to a drug screen following offer of employment.

All persons employed with the state of Missouri shall file all state income tax forms and pay all state income taxes owed.