Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
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DNR is seeking dedicated, customer-oriented candidates to fill two positions: GIS Developer and Web Developer. Both positions are located in Madison, WI with responsibilities statewide. Occasional travel within the state and nationally is required.
Job Duties:
Both the GIS Developer and the Web Developer are employed within the Division of Forestry. Each position has its own focused discipline within the division. The GIS Developer primarily develops and maintains geo-spatial applications, possibly involving integration with other applications. The Web Developer primarily develops and maintains applications, possibly involving integration with geospatial applications. Both positions also provide systems analysis for projects ranging in size and structure.
The positions require a strong knowledge base and experience in either GIS or IT/web application development with the aptitude and desire for creating solutions; consulting with technical staff in other divisions and internal customers; negotiating solutions; mentoring other developers; and working on development teams to integrate complex IT solutions in a desktop, mobile and/or web environments. The customer base includes 450-500 division staff within three central office bureaus and four districts, as well as colleagues throughout DNR and external key partner groups.
A complete position description is available upon request.
Job Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge and skill related to system design, application coding and troubleshooting for basic and complex applications;
- Knowledge and skill related to integrating web technologies and mapping applications;
- Knowledge and skill related to GIS and/or web technology, including:
– Database software and scripting languages, such as Oracle, Structured Query Language (SQL) and Toad
– Programming languages, such as .NET, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, HTML5, PL/SQL, JQuery, and/or Python;
– JavaScript libraries;
– web technologies for serving software;
– user interfaces for applications;
– Microsoft Office products, including MS Word, Excel, Access, and Visio; and/or
– Esri’s ArcGIS, JavaScript API, geo-databases, spatial analyst tools, and spatial statistic operations
- Knowledge and skill needed to develop relational databases with spatial components;
- Ability to create and maintain databases, including Oracle and MS Access
- Skill in analyzing new and upgraded IT architecture
- Skill using security best practices with server technologies;
- Skill in assessing the impacts on business systems and developing alternative actions to resolve issues
- Skill in preparing information for management and management teams
- Ability to work with internal partners, such as business experts, business analyst and IT/GIS professionals
- Ability to provide on-going technical perspective on a project team
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
- Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgement
- Customer service skills
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment
- Ability to work at a detailed level and perform tasks with a high level of accuracy, while keeping an eye on the big picture
- Ability to develop and work on multiple projects