Water IT Senior Programmer Analyst - The City of Fort Worth

Pay Range: $89,164 - $115,914 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A Water IT Senior Programmer Analyst job is available with the City of Fort Worth Water Department, Management Services Division. In this role, you’ll be part of the Water IT team, which supports all technology used across the Fort Worth Water Utility, including systems that serve our customers directly. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise, a solutions-focused mindset, and the ability to work within a collaborative environment where customer service, communication, and dependable technical delivery are essential.

The Senior Programmer Analyst is responsible for formulating and defining system scope and objectives, architecture, development, maintenance, and support of complex applications for the Utility delivered via the web, Internet and Intranet, and/or client-server.  The incumbent is responsible for applying programming best practices, architectures, and patterns, assists others in programming, and leads in planning, architecting, securing, unit testing, and deploying custom applications.  Adhering to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices, change control policies, and service level agreement (SLA) compliance is expected.  This position will also gain knowledge and provide support in additional areas of Oracle RightNow/Oracle Service Cloud and Itineris UMAX Utility Suite. This position is located onsite in Fort Worth, Texas.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Five (5) years experience in information systems design/administration, systems analysis, or computer programming
• Valid Texas Driver’s License
• Participate in a 24 x 7 on call rotation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Municipal or local government experience – Water/Wastewater Utility experience is a plus
• Demonstrated knowledge of Utility processes, workflows, and procedures
• Demonstrated experience with Integration tools such as MuleSoft, WebLogic, Dell Boomi
• Web Services: Developing and implementing REST/SOAP (JSON/XML)
• DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, and source control (e.g., GitHub)
• Any JavaScript languages, preferably React