A dozen new WA state jobs listed with pay over $80K a year. Positions can be fully remote
The state of Washington has listed new job openings throughout June that pay over $80,000 annually for numerous positions across various agencies. This salary is about equivalent to the state’s median income for a two-person family, according to the Economic Services Administration. These positions are either remote only or come with the option to work from home.
The positions include paid sick leave and time off, as well as health benefits. Applications must be submitted through Washington state’s online application portal. You can email careershelp@des.wa.gov or call 360-664-1960 with questions.
Candidates can also sign up for job alerts on specific types of jobs. They can also search the state’s listings of positions at colleges and universities.
The following positions are available with application deadlines ranging from early to mid-July.
Department of Enterprise Services
- Salary: $87,000-$95,000 annually
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Multiple locations
- Summary: The strategist helps state agencies and political subdivisions access effective commercial solutions via state buying power to improve the value of every dollar spent, as well as make it easy to do business with the state. They also interpret and apply statewide procurement and contracting laws, rules, policies and best practices to help draft procurement procedures for the department’s Contracts & Procurement Division.
- Deadline: July 9 at 11:59 p.m.
Department of Health
System Development Process Manager – Senior Epidemiologist
- Salary: $7,820-$10,516 monthly
- Type: Remote only
- Summary: This epidemiologist leads a team to undertake project development processes. The position oversees sprint development cycles and resource allocation across CDS, IT, and internal and external system users to contribute to public health functions.
- Deadline: July 2 at 11:59 p.m.
Public Health Disease Modeling Epidemiologist
- Salary: $6,908-$9,296 monthly
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Multiple locations
- Summary: The person in this role handles data programming to support automated data analyses, infectious disease and other data modeling, model scenario projections, and data visualizations to inform public health decision-making that addresses important health issues.
- Deadline: July 6 at 11:59 p.m.
Department of Licensing
Hearings Assistant Administrator
- Salary: $105,000-$110,000 annually
- Type: Remote only
- Summary: This role manages an administration of driver hearings, assists with the program budget, develops meaningful program standards and recommends and reviews proposed legislation. The ideal candidate should maintain an expert knowledge of driver licensing statutes, regulations and case law.
- Deadline: July 4 at 11:59 p.m.
- Salary: $100,000-$105,000 annually
- Type: Remote only
- Summary: This manager leads a team of Hearings Examiners and manages the Unit’s Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities Act programs. They also will provide training to employees and serve as a resource for interpretations and application of non-discrimination statutes.
- Deadline: July 12 at 11:59 p.m.
Department of Retirement Services
- Salary: $88,248-$118,716 annually
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Tumwater, Thurston County
- Summary: The web designer provides architecture and strategic development direction for document imaging technologies. The person in this role provides a comprehensive and knowledgeable level of support for the department’s internal document imaging systems and web application portfolio.
- Deadline: Unspecified
Department of Revenue
- Salary: $8,033-$10,802 monthly
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Tumwater, Thurston County
- Summary: The architect works in the Information Services Division to represent the Department of Revenue at the state level with governing bodies such as the Office of the State CIO, the Internal Revenue Service and other governing bodies. The person in this role ensures technology solutions are cohesive, align with the organization’s technology standards and meet the goals and objectives of the business areas.
- Deadline: July 13 at 11:59 p.m.
Department of Transportation
Agreements Engineer – Transportation Engineer 4
- Salary: $80,879-$108,751 annually
- Type: Remote only
- Summary: The engineer role functions as a member of the Regional Transit Coordination Division. They serve as the lead liaison between WSDOT and Sound Transit for coordinating contractual agreements associated with complex public transportation construction projects.
- Deadline: July 10 at 11:59 p.m.
Employment Security Department
- Salary: $101,059.20-$135,866.16 annually
- Type: Remote only
- Summary: This position is being offered in both a full- and part-time capacity. The ideal candidate serves as a technical expert of actuarial methodologies pricing, reserving and analytics to forecast the financial implication of a given insurance program.
- Deadline: Continuous
- Salary: $84,072-$113,064 annually
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Olympia, Thurston County
- Summary: The person in this role functions as a member of the WorkSource System Support team within the department’s Information Technology Services Division. The ideal candidate is responsible for ensuring that mission-critical applications and information systems maintain the highest level of quality.
- Deadline: July 6 at 11:59 p.m.
Health Care Authority
Health Information Technology Enterprise Data Application Manager
- Salary: $80,064.00 - $107,676.00 Annually
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Olympia, Thurston County
- Summary: This data application manager position is responsible for managing IT and data interfaces, extracts, quality measurement, participation monitoring, regulatory compliance for IT systems and performing data management for internal and external data sources.
- Deadline: Continuous
IT Application Development – Senior/Specialist
- Salary: $88,248-$118,716 annually
- Type: Remote optional
- Location: Olympia, Thurston County
- Summary: The individual in this role directs a team of technical application programmers for designing, developing, implementing and maintaining the BHDS and Software-as-a-Solution Edifecs system. They also provide technical leadership to Web Services staff on the architectural design of web sites and related applications.
- Deadline: July 23 at 11:59 p.m.
This story was originally published June 27, 2023 at 11:11 AM.
Jared Gendron
The News Tribune