About the Division Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE):
The Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) implements quality standards for child care and increases access to families and their children across North Carolina. NCGS 110-85 requires that the State protect children in child care facilities by ensuring that these facilities provide a physically safe and healthy environment where the developmental needs of the children are met and where these children are cared for by qualified persons of good moral character.

About NC Department of Health and Human Services:
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) serves the needs of the most vulnerable of North Carolinians and to accomplish this, we hire only the most dedicated and caring individuals. Finding qualified clinical professionals to treat and care for our clients is a continual challenge as demand for services grows and the availability of providers struggles to keep pace. We are seeking a motivated individual who is up for this challenge and is dedicated to our mission of providing North Carolinians with the very best in clinical care.

Compensation & Benefits:
The State of North Carolina offers excellent comprehensive benefits. Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NCFlex program (numerous high-quality, low-cost benefits on a pre-tax basis). Employees also receive paid vacation, sick, and community service leave. In addition, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees.
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RECRUITMENT RANGE: $61,209 - $84,162 NC19
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This position has thorough knowledge of business systems and is responsible and accountable for serving in a team lead role in supporting projects, developing, refining, and understanding business requirements, use cases, and testing standards for Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) applications. This includes the overall functional and non-functional business requirements for applications, business rules, data dictionaries and flows, reporting, user interfaces, as well as any other business driven processes, rules, or design points that are necessary to meet the expected usability for new and existing applications for DCDEE and external stakeholders. This position also serves as a lead business data liaison between business program area assigned and the information systems project team. The position provides support to staff around simple and complex business processes and practices that drive DCDEE data. The ability to retain in-depth programmatic knowledge is needed to provide useful analysis and interpretation of data and trends in multiple program areas. Duties include working with key IT partners towards proactive solutions. Balancing multiple tasks is essential.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies

To receive credit for all of your work history and credentials, you must list the information on the application form. Any information listed under the text resume section or on an attachment will not be considered for qualifying credit. Qualified applicants must document on the application that they possess all of the following:

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  Experience and knowledge of all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including requirements management, applications design, development, quality assurance, change management, and release management.
• Customer focused while developing and maintaining strong relationships with customers by listening and understanding the customer and responding to identified needs.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that offers requirements management capabilities (ex: Team Foundation Server or Atlassian JIRA).

The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities listed below, along with the Minimum Education and Experience Requirements, are REQUIRED to qualify for this position. We will not review resumes in lieu of Experience and Education listed on the application (additional statement below). Click these links for additional information: Introduction to the Job Application and Addressing Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Bachelor s degree from appropriately accredited institution in a discipline related to the area of assignment with three years of programmatic experience related to the area of assignment; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.