Job Description
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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.
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Your Team:
Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agency’s effort 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 pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.
Your Impact:
As the .Net Developer for the Division of HPD TECH, you will convert high-level requirements and business specifications to .NET enterprise architecture and data schemas. You will enforce best practices, solution architecture rules and methodologies commensurate with industry standards and HPDTech guidance. As well, you will design applications in adherence to security mandates issued by CISO.
Your Role:
Your role will be to help support legacy Enterprise applications, develop applications for all Enterprise product areas, provide solutions for emergency HPD needs, and special projects.
Your Responsibilities:
- Develop multi-tier .Net applications.
- Conduct code reviews and signoffs.
- Maintain code repository.
- Manage Enterprise application releases.
- Work with BAs, QAs, and other Agile team members to design Jira epics, stories, and sprints.
- Analyze the functionality and database architecture of existing MS Access applications (relying on Business and Technical documentation as well as reverse-engineering the applications themselves) to convert those applications into the .Net platform.
- Provide application project notes and other supporting documentation.
- Be prepared to take on additional technical leadership responsibilities as the need arises. This position will include all the incumbents’ duties.
Required Skills:
- Expert knowledge of the Microsoft .NET platform, architecture, and best practices.
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in .Net C# programming, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, JavaScript.
- Minimum of 4 years developing WCF Services, WebAPI, REST API.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience with HTML5 programming and AngularJS.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in JQuery, JSON, XML.
- Minimum of 4 years working with the Oracle database environment, MS SQL Server 2012 and above.
- Ability to maintain current complex production MS Access applications and systems is a must.
- Prior working experience with MS Access / VB Script.
Preferred Skills:
- Demonstrate understanding of software development life cycles like Agile and Waterfall.
- Strong collaboration, relationship management, and excellent communication skills.
- Good judgment, logical thinking, and detail oriented.
- Ability to adapt and understand business.
- Ability to drive projects to completion.
- Experience with Automation, deployment of the applications.
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 Specialist (Software) title.
Please indicate in your cover letter whether you have filed for an exam or are already permanent in the Computer Specialist (Software) 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 baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory full-time software experience in designing, programming, debugging, maintaining, implementing, and enhancing computer software applications, systems programming, systems analysis and design, data communication software, or database design and programming, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(2) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory software experience as described in “1" above, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is equivalent to (1) or (2) above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in (2) above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However, all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory full-time software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience, you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations, technical support, quality assurance (QA), hardware installation, help desk, or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV, in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above, individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, operating systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or on-line applications programming.
