Client/Server Programmer jobs in Columbia, MO

Job Title: Programmer

Where: Office of State Courts Administrator, Jefferson City, MO

Full-time: 40 hours

Starting Salary: $58,654.00

A career with the Office of State Courts Administrator will provide you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and gain valuable work experiences. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and keep operations running smoothly. We have opportunities for individuals seeking meaningful work in providing administrative, business and information technology services to the Missouri courts.

We are recruiting to fill a Programmer position responsible for writing, modifying, testing, debugging, and documenting application codes using detailed specifications and standards. This position receives formal training and on-the-job instruction in conjunction with a progression of increasingly more difficult work assignments involving the flow charting, coding, debugging and documentation of application programs.

A career with the Office of State Courts Administrator will provide you the opportunity to work with a variety of exceptional, hardworking people and gain valuable work experiences. It takes many types of talent to advance the mission of the Missouri Judiciary and keep operations running smoothly. We have opportunities for individuals seeking meaningful work in providing administrative, business and information technology services to the Missouri courts.
We are recruiting to fill a Programmer position responsible for writing, modifying, testing, debugging, and documenting application codes using detailed specifications and standards. This position receives formal training and on-the-job instruction in conjunction with a progression of increasingly more difficult work assignments involving the flow charting, coding, debugging and documentation of application programs.

This position involves new development which is modernizing legacy applications with web browser based technologies such as Spring MVC, HTML5, JSF, JavaScript, JSON and CSS. Programmer will write, modify, test, debug and document Java JEE application code using detailed specifications and documented standards. This position will receive formal training and on-the-job instruction in conjunction with a progression of increasingly more difficult work assignments involving flow charting, coding, debugging and documenting application programs. This is an exciting opportunity for a programmer with creative abilities and one who has a desire to work in a dynamic team environment.

An understanding of relational databases, object oriented technologies and client-server application development, utilizing Java technologies, in a Windows environment is preferred. A desire to learn new skills is a must. While this division uses technologies such as Java utilizing Eclipse IDE, XML WebSphere Application Server, JMS and Oracle PL/SQL, experience with other programming languages and development tools will also be considered.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Demonstrates proficiency using programming languages identified by the ITS Division, to develop efficient, well-structured programs and procedures to accomplish tasks assigned to them
• Demonstrates an ability to explore, interpret, and summarize requirements to develop well written, concise programming specifications, procedures, and functions designed to implement requested changes and/or new development
• Creates, designs and modifies data entry and display screens, and various output, through the use of existing system hardware and software including programming, testing and debugging

Desired skills and knowledge:

• Working knowledge of the principles of computer programming and systems analysis, design, testing and documentation
• Working knowledge of computer security systems and procedures
• Ability to analyze policies, procedures and operations, organize their component parts into system specifications, databases and/or programs and adapt them to an automated system

Minimum qualifications: (The following statement represents the minimum education and experience which will be used to determine qualifications of applicants. Additional experience above the minimum stated may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required education. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted on a year for year basis.)

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with at least fifteen (15) semester hours in computer science or computer information systems.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and have a strong commitment to diversity in all its forms. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad spectrum of qualified people who will assist us in demonstrating our essential values of excellence, integrity, justice, stewardship, teamwork and partnership.