Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city’s housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

- We maintain building and resident safety and health.
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability.
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team:

Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. HPD Tech is committed to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing, shrinking costs, and increasing the pace of work. HPD Tech works to improve effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and proactively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.

The Office of HPDTech is composed of 7 units: CIO (Chief Information Office), CTO (Chief Technology Office), CPO (Chief Product Office), Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Planning & Compliance, and Information Security.
Your Impact:

HPD Tech is seeking an IT Senior Project Manager. This position within HPD Tech will oversee a variety of technology projects supporting both enterprise and business verticals. The IT Senior Project Manager will work to ensure program and project goals are reached.

Your Role:

Your role will be to work closely with HPD stakeholders within business, technology, external agencies, and vendors to ensure that efficiency and effectiveness of systems solutions are deployed in support of business objectives. You will oversee the planning, procurement and implementation of IT initiatives affecting the business vertical. Your main duties include project planning, budget management, resource allocation and project implementation for technology projects that is in line with the organization’s standards and policies.

As an IT Senior Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in guiding and mentoring junior project managers within the team. You may be given supervisory responsibilities that will involve providing oversight and support to other project managers, helping them navigate project complexities, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You will conduct regular check-ins to assess their progress and offering constructive feedback. You will also provide ideas and guidance contributing to the overall success of the project management team.

Your Responsibilities:

- Work closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams, and other project managers to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources.
- Engage with vendors on software development projects.
- Cultivate robust and sustainable working relationships between business, vendor, internal and external technology teams to foster a cross-functional team environment.
- Identify and remove impediments to prevent distractions.
- Create and maintain project and program budgets.
- Create and manage the product roadmap area.
- Collaborate closely with the Stakeholders to facilitate release management across teams.
- Ensure project documentation are maintained, and communications are timely and effectively distributed.
- Contribute to program assessment protocols for evaluation and improvement.
- Maintain organizational standards of satisfaction, quality, and performance.
- Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Adhere to internal SDLC and review processes and standards. Selected candidate responsible for all of incumbents’ duties.

Preferred Skills

- 6+ total years as scrum master (or Scrum Master & PM combination) on a development team and at least 2 years of the experience must include working with a SI vendor or in a managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity or 4+ years total years as a PM and at least 2 years of the experience must include working with a SI vendor or in a managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity.
- At least 3 years of experience coordinating and/supporting IT business processes.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience working with vendors.
- PMP Certified.
- At least 3 years’ experience tracking and maintaining project financials.
- Exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Outcome oriented with a strong sense of ownership, with a focus on proactively removing program obstacles, and willingness to go above and beyond to chase down loose ends that lead to successful product delivery.
- Strong collaboration, relationship management communication and written skills for both technical and business communication.
- Ability to thrive in a highly ambiguous, fast paced environment where priorities shift rapidly.
- Experience with MS Project/MS Office, TFS, and JIRA or similar tool for managing Agile projects.
- Prior experience working on software projects with a working knowledge of web development.
- Certified Scrum Master.
- Experience with managing RFP’s and the NYC procurement and funding process.
- Experience in PPM tools like Microsoft Project Online.
- Demonstrate understanding of multiple project management life-cycle methodologies (especially iterative development).
- Good judgment, logical thinker, and detail oriented.
- Ability to drive projects to completion.
- Familiarity with Oracle database architecture and design.
- Familiarity with Client-Server, Web architecture, and software development.
- Ability to operate independently within established methodologies, procedures, and guidelines.

NOTE: Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. This position is open to applicants who filed for an exam or those who are already permanent in the Computer Systems Manager title.

Please indicate in your cover letter whether you have filed for an exam or are already permanent in the Computer Systems Manager title. Applicants who filed for an exam will be required to produce a copy of their Order Confirmation Receipt at time of interview for verification.

This position may be eligible for remote work up to 2 days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and various unions.

Qualifications

1. A master’s degree in computer science from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience in Information Technology (IT) including applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing, or user services. At least eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity in the areas of applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four (4) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and six (6) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

4. A satisfactory combination of education and experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and must possess at least three (3) years of experience as described in "1" above, including the eighteen (18) months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

In the absence of a baccalaureate degree, undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 semester credits for six (6) months of the required experience. Graduate credits in computer science may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits in computer science for one (1) year of the required IT experience. However, undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen (18) months of experience in an administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity as described in "1" above.