Integration and Development Manager

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13779499 ## Essential Functions - Under administrative direction, serves as the Integration and Development Manager for the Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) supporting the Department of Early Childhood (IDEC), by serving as the technical lead for the IDEC digital ecosystem, ensuring all vendor-led development strictly adheres to the DoIT Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) framework and utilizes the standard .NET code template for all custom integrations. - Translates complex product requirements into detailed technical user stories, schemas, and specifications to guide development activities across the IDEC portfolio. - Serves as the primary technical liaison to external vendors and partner organizations. - Designs, develops, and delivers automated workflows, application programming interfaces (APIs), and secure integration pipelines that connect and support the IDEC cloud environment. - Supervises contractual staff. - Keeps abreast of new developments in digital services, cloud infrastructure, and artificial intelligence through online training platforms, meetings, training sessions, seminars, vendor demos, and conferences to increase familiarity with and remain current on products, vendors, techniques, and procedures. - Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above. ## Minimum Qualifications - Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in software engineering, cloud computing, computer science, or directly related fields. - Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible technical leadership experience in the management of systems integration, workflow automation, and cloud infrastructure.