IT System Administrator - Statewide Message Switch
Our Journey level position acts as a system administrator for the Washington Statewide Message Switch "A Centralized Computer Enforcement Service System” (ACCESS), which supports 25,000 statewide users that perform criminal justice activities statewide. This is a mission critical system that operates 24 X 7 for officer safety.
The individual in this position must maintain comprehensive knowledge of the business requirements of the Criminal Records Division (CRD), and technical expertise in the interactions between multiple data sources that communicate with the Washington State Message Switch (ACCESS). These data sources include Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI); the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), National Instant Background Check System (NICS), Interstate Identification Index (III), National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), Interpol, Department of Correction (DOC), Department of Licensing (DOL), Washington Crime Information Center (WACIC), and Washington State Identification System (WASIS), Department of Health (DOH), Parks, Nlets and Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB).
This position is responsible for communicating with the developers, customers, stakeholders, partner agencies and law enforcement agencies.
Top Candidates will have the following qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a field related to information technology, mathematics, or engineering
- and 4 years of experience in information technology areas of application development, database management, or system administration.
- or Eight years of information technology experience in one or more of the following areas: application development, system administration, connecting applications with application programming interfaces (API), SQL coding, XML/XSLT, network communications, Business Analysis.
- Within the experience noted above, you must have a minimum of two years of experience writing SQL code for the purposes of developing reports, providing metrics, and/or troubleshooting a transaction processing system
Desired Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience or competency in:
- Visual Studio
- Communication protocols
- Implementing Applications Programming Interfaces (API)
- IIS configuration