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 office 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.

The Office of HPD Tech is composed of 9 units: CIO, Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Ideation, Infrastructure Network and Systems, Planning & Compliance, Product Area, Release & Security Management, and Security.

Your Impact:

HPD Tech is seeking a Senior full stack .Net Programmer/Analyst. This position is a full performance level Senior full stack .Net Programmer/Analyst position managing a modernization of the Section 8 and other subsidy program, under in Department of Tenant Resources through manintainence and enhancements to existing .Net based systems, optimization/decommissioning for existing MS Accessbased systems and third party products used to manages Section 8 subsidy processing. And future conversions of existing legacy systems to .Net platform. HPDTech is actively engaged in developing technology solutions to aid efficient administration of programs in Department of Tenant Resources.

Your Role:

Under the supervision of the Technical Lead, the Senior full stack .Net Programmer/Analyst will be responsible for investigating, analyzing, designing, programming and implementing new cost effective technology solutions related to existing HPD home-grown or vendor systems. Senior full stack .Net Programmer/Analyst will multi-task in a product verticals based organization. The position requires candidates who are self-starters in a fast paced environment and should be able to deliver quality code in a tight deadline.

Your Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience (6 years plus) with resolving technical issues with Angular, .NET core and WebAPI, mentoring the team Handled Agile projects with complex functionality with Micro Services architecture.

• Comfortable with use of JSON, Observables, Promises, Recent hands-on experience with VB.Net and C# (.Net 4.5 and .Net Core 2.1.5 + frameworks) full stack development of application.

• Practical experience in current and emerging front and back end frameworks and approaches such as .NET, Angular and Web API, and how to leverage them to deliver on mission critical systems in an agile setting.

• Design, develop and deploy Web, WCF services, Web API Windows Forms Applications using Visual Studio.Net.

• Demonstrated experience with database platforms, mobile and web platforms, multi-tier application frameworks, microservices, and cloud native applications.

• Manage and execute the software development lifecycle (SDLC) based on the best practices and comply with the enterprise architect and security standards.

• Work with DB, UI/UX, PM and QA team to ensure quality and timely delivery of development services that meet the user requirements as per the specifications.

• Perform technical root cause analysis and issue triage for webservice, application management and database related issues reported by QA/Production users.

• Work with Jira / Confluence and Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience working on .NET based and/or MS Access, Borland, Powerbuilder based projects.

• Familiar with ASP, .NET, Borland Delphi, AngularJS, JQuery, Web API, Web Services, XML, XSL, XSLT & SOAP, C#, Java Script, VB Script.

• Functional knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript and SQL/Oracle, object-oriented coding methodologies.

• Hands-on web-based/MVC/Single-Form application development experience.

• Demonstrate understanding of different software development life-cycle methodologies.

• Hands-on experience with relational database design and implementation.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to work well and communicate effectively with other professionals

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.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.