Programmer/Analyst or Senior Programmer/Analyst

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System

Minimum requirements are a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Management Information Systems or Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.

A Senior Programmer/Analyst requires an additional minimum of 6 years experience as a software developer, building production applications. A minimum of 4 years experience in developing products for SOA environment, Java, J2EE development, industry standard interface protocols (i.e. SOAP/web services, HTTP), and object oriented programming techniques and a formal software development lifecycle. A minimum of 3 years experience with relational databases and building applications as part of a team environment.

Ohio PERS currently has an opening in our Applications/Special Projects department. We are looking for a seasoned professional with extensive programming skills, especially in JAVA. We know this is an in-demand skill set with a shortage of senior people so we are willing to consider more junior candidates that we will work with and train to learn JAVA.

Highlights of responsibilities:

• Maintains current knowledge of standard languages, coding methods, and operations requirements.
• Analyzes existing program logic to determine best method of accomplishing required changes or cause of program malfunction.
• Performs maintenance and modification of programs currently in production to keep them responsive to user needs and to assure efficient operation in the production environment.
• Assists in the design of automated portions of systems.
• Designs program logic to meet specifications and to adhere to prescribed standards.
• Codes programs in an authorized language.
• Prepares test data and thoroughly tests coded programs to validate accuracy.
• Analyzes production programs to isolate problems or to determine more efficient methods.
• Documents and maintains program specifications according to OPERS standards.
• Fulfills administrative reporting requirements.

Job Title: Programmer/Analyst or Senior Programmer/Analyst

Reports To: Lead Programmer/Analyst

Department: Applications Development – Special Projects

Division: Information Technology

Target Salary Range: $21.91 - $37.47 ($45,563.33 - $77,927.50)

FLSA Status: Exempt

Posting Valid: 4/1/11 – until filled