Careers
Consider a Career at PERA
PERA offers rewarding career opportunities in public service where you can make a positive difference for Minnesota.
Because our agency has a diverse set of responsibilities, we have exciting opportunities for people with diverse talents and experience. We employ a wide variety of professionals and support staff – ranging from actuaries, accountants and field reps to customer service specialists, communications and legal.
Employer Services Account Technician
This position exists to ensure compliance with PERA contribution legal mandates and standards so that pension plan coverage and benefit payments are properly awarded to 170,000 covered public employees. This is accomplished through two main activities: 1) analyzing and reconciling salary, contribution and employment data reported on a daily basis by participating public employers, and 2) providing one-on-one instruction, explanation, and assistance to approximately 2,000 governmental employer representatives who must carry out the reporting provisions of PERA law and policy. This position is directly involved in making decisions regarding the reconciliation and disposition of all employee deductions, employer contributions, and miscellaneous payments received by the association.
This position is approved for telework based on the needs of the agency and other dependencies.Initial training of up to three (3) months will be done in-person at the PERA Office located in St. Paul, MN. Once initial training is complete, this position will have a hybrid telework schedule with the requirement to be in-office one (1) day per week and with an occasional need to be in-office twice per week as scheduled.
Only candidates located in Minnesota and bordering states (Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Wisconsin) are telework eligible.
Programmer or Developer
Information Technology Specialist 2 – Programmer:
Works as part of a highly collaborative cross functional Agile/SCRUM team to implement new business system needs, as well as make modifications and fix bugs in existing code. Primary responsibilities are writing code for both the front-end and back-end of the applications, developing and executing test scripts, and fixing defects. For business system needs of low technical complexity, position may analyze user stories and create application design and user interface layouts with assistance from a senior team member.
Information Technology Specialist 3 – Software Engineer:
Works as part of a highly collaborative cross functional Agile/SCRUM team to implement new business system needs, as well as make modifications and fix defects in existing code. Responsibilities include analyzing user stories, application design, developing user interface layouts, writing code for both the front-end and back-end of the applications, developing and executing test scripts, fixing defects and supporting applications in production.
Once new hire training is complete, this position offers a hybrid work schedule which includes primarily telework days with some in-office days as required at the PERA office building in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Only candidates located in Minnesota and bordering states (Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Wisconsin) are telework eligible.