Salary
Posted
Jul 6, 2026
Location
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

This role involves building and maintaining web-based and client-server applications that automate budget and programmatic workflows for the Veterans Health Administration's Specialty Care Program Office. The work spans the full development lifecycle — from requirements gathering and database programming to testing and production deployment — with an additional focus on evaluating and prototyping automation and AI/ML tools. It suits an experienced application developer with a federal IT background and at least eight years of hands-on development work.

Senior level · 8+ years · National · Bachelor's required

Must have (4)
SQLRDBMSOS scriptingCOTS integration
Nice to have (4)
Power Automate or Power BISQL ServerAI/ML or RpaAgile

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What won't set you apart
SQL51%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (9)

No work location or metro area is specified in the posting; the CBSA is left blank. The role supports a federal VA contract, so it is likely on-site at a VA facility, but remote status cannot be confirmed.

The title carries no seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 8-year minimum and full-SDLC ownership scope support a Senior classification.

The SOC is a genuine judgment call: the role blends hands-on application/database development (15-1252) with requirements analysis, specification writing, and process modeling (15-1211). Primary day-to-day work leans toward coding and development, so 15-1252 is chosen with 15-1211 as the runner-up.

A VA Position of Public Trust (suitability determination) is required, but this is not a US government security clearance in the traditional sense — it is a background investigation for VA network access. Clearance is therefore set to None.

Prior VA/federal IT experience is described as 'strongly desired' rather than a hard gate, so it is not captured as a required skill.

Power Automate and Power BI appear together under Desired Qualifications as part of the VA Power Platform mention; they are listed as a single preferred skill with the other as an alternative since the posting treats them as a bundled platform familiarity.

AI/ML and RPA are grouped together in the Desired Qualifications section as interchangeable exposure areas, so they are captured as a single preferred skill with RPA as an alternative.

No compensation figures are provided in the posting.

Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): web application development, client-server application development.

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