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Requisition No: 877291
Agency: Management Services
Working Title: INTEROPERABILITY APPLICATION ENGINEER - 72004160
Pay Plan: Career Service
Position Number: 72004160
Salary: $65,000.00 - $87,500.00
Posting Closing Date: 06/12/2026
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Interoperability Application Engineer
Florida Digital Service
State of Florida Department of Management Services
This position is located in Tallahassee, FL
Position Overview and Responsibilities:
The Florida Digital Service is searching for a candidate with programming and engineering skills to assist the Office of Data Management. This candidate will support the development, enhancement, testing, deployment, and maintenance of internal and external-facing web applications and platform services. This role will work closely with existing developers and technical staff to support hosted applications, improve operational resiliency, and contribute to scalable cloud-native solutions.
This candidate will be primarily responsible for the design requirements, testing, and technical expertise for implementing internal and external facing applications. This candidate will be joining a team of professionals dedicated to streamlining data sharing, promoting interoperability throughout the State, reducing duplication of data received, and improving efficiencies in business operations through modern application and platform development practices.
Key Responsibilities:

• Leads development of testing practices that validate full-stack reliability across frontend interfaces, backend APIs, and deployment workflows to support production readiness.
• Leads initiatives to identify manual testing bottlenecks and modernizes the environment through automating testing to scale future CI/CD workflows.
• Develops scalable UX/UI components while being the primary contributor to the frontend ecosystem, optimizing build configurations, and ensuring adherence to coding standards to maximize application performance and developer efficiency.
• Provides input to support the discovery, definition, and documentation of cloud infrastructure requirements, ensuring environments are architected for scalability, security, and high availability to support both internal development and external partner integrations.
• Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to gather requirements, participate in design discussions, and support scalable application development efforts.
• Contributes to various efforts towards establishing and maintaining interoperable data services between state agencies using modern APIs, service endpoints, data lakes, data meshes, and secure integration platforms across the enterprise.
• Supports the team in evaluation, designing, and monitoring activities, as necessary, to enable data-sharing interfaces that ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with security and privacy standards
• Supports interoperability initiatives involving database integrations, application development, analytical workloads, and performance optimization across enterprise platforms.
• Supports enterprise interoperability initiatives through development of technical documentation, operational reporting, system reliability metrics, and progress updates for leadership and agency stakeholders.
• Other duties as required.

Key Competencies:

• Systems Thinking
• Problem Solving & Innovation
• Code Quality Assurance Experience
• Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure
• Technical Communication Written and Verbal

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years of experience in application development, testing and deployment to production environments.
• Experience in developing front end interfaces.
• Strong programming skills utilizing modern development technologies such as Python, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, with a commitment to continuous learning and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Demonstrates industry best practices for writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
• Experience with Git or other source code repositories.
• Practical experience with various cloud infrastructures, primarily aws
• Practical experience with APIs (REST,SOAP, and/or GraphQL), JSON/XML data formats, and web service integration.
• Practical experience with developing and automating test cases in code deployment cycles.
• Familiarity with NIST 800-53 Cybersecurity standards.
• Ability to apply System Development Life Cycles (SDLC) methodologies.
• Proven ability to communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with understanding and integrating with web services with .NET technology.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted web applications and frontend deployment workflows.
• Experience working in a state, local, or federal government data environment.
• Knowledge of Florida's data privacy laws, open data practices, and digital government strategies.
• Certifications in cloud and application development.

Other job-related requirements for this position:

• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to drive and/or fly for long distances.
• Ability to lift, push and pull up to 30lbs.

Pursuant to F.S. 215.422 every officer or employee who is responsible for the approval or processing of vendors' invoices or distribution of warrants to vendors are mandated to process, resolve and comply as section 215.422 requires
Criminal background investigation including fingerprinting and statewide and national criminal history records check per Section 110.1127 Florida Statutes, Chapter 435 Florida Statutes and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's CJIS Security Policy CJISD-ITS-DOC-08140.
Our Organization and Mission:
Under the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, Secretary Tom Berger and DMS' Executive Leadership Team, the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) is a customer-oriented agency with a broad portfolio that includes the efficient use and management of real estate, procurement, human resources, group insurance, retirement, telecommunications, fleet, and federal property assistance programs used throughout Florida's state government. It is against this backdrop that DMS strives to demonstrate its motto, "We serve those who serve Florida."
Special Notes:
DMS is committed to successfully recruiting and onboarding talented and skilled individuals into its workforce. We recognize the extensive training, experience and transferrable skills that veterans and individuals with disabilities bring to the workforce. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to contact our recruiter for guidance and answers to questions through the following provided email addresses:
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An individual with a disability is qualified if he or she satisfies the skills, experience, and other job related requirements for a position and can perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must contact the DMS Human Resources (HR) Office at (850) 488-2707. DMS requests applicants notify HR in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
Criminal background investigation including fingerprinting and statewide and national criminal history records check per Section 110.1127 Florida Statutes, Chapter 435 Florida Statutes and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's CJIS Security Policy CJISD-ITS-DOC-08140.
Pursuant to F.S. 215.422 every officer or employee who is responsible for the approval or processing of vendors' invoices or distribution of warrants to vendors are mandated to process, resolve and comply as section 215.422 requires
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.
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