Job Description

The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSS’s technology services organization. ITS mission is to support the daily, emergent, and long-term needs of both agencies. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, case management systems, housing systems, employment/work engagement services, revenue producing computer matches, claiming systems, and personnel systems.

The Office of Enterprise Solutions Engineering within ITS consists of five divisions – HRA Technology, DSS Technology, DHS Technology, External Agency Technology, and Quality Assurance – that supports the analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of hundreds of web and mobile applications, which run on Unix and Windows Servers and are hosted in a virtual environment in on premises data center. Additionally, this office maintains agency-wide Imaging repository containing over a billion+ client-related documents.

The Office of External Agency Technologies (EAT), within the Office of Enterprise Solutions Engineering, manages a broad and diversified portfolio. This ITS department maintains solutions that provide citywide support services such as childcare, child support, and the municipal identification card program. The EAT group also manages enterprise wide services and environments such as document management automation, the data warehouse, and services that facilitates the exchange of data between systems. These systems communicate and are accessible with both internal and external systems/users/platforms like HRA NYCWAY, the NY State Welfare Management System (WMS), Self-Sufficiency Employment Assessment Management system (SEAMS), HRA Eligibility systems (POS) and other diverse data sources.

Under the supervision of the program director and/or lead developer, with broad scope for the exercise of independent initiative and judgment, the CSIII Senior Full Stack .NET Developer uses expertise/experience for the analysis, design, development, implementation, enhancement, maintenance and security of agency-wide electronic content management/records systems and services. The Senior Full Stack .NET Developer will collaborate with multiple discipline stakeholders in design, quality assurance and infrastructure in the deployment and maintenance of stated systems. In the temporary absence of the supervisor, may perform the duties of that position.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is recruiting for one (1) Computer Specialist (Software) III, to function as a Senior Full Stack .NET Developer, who will:

• Oversee/execute the design, development, configuration, and security as well as upgrades

  and enhancements to existing ECM applications, Integration changes, rehousing and business

  intelligence using HRA technology group’s standard .NET CORE and Angular frameworks and

  associated DevOps tools. Plan, manage and promote system/program/application efficiency

  and security by integrating performance metrics and encryption. Manage and develop system/

  program/application responsiveness and cross-platform optimization. Utilize best practices

  and employ Agile development processes/procedures and implementation plans to drive

  standards, and support value delivery across the development lifecycle.

• Ensure integrity, quality, and timeliness of technical deliverables related to development by sending

  Code review request and documenting the unit test plans, through regular monitoring, testing and

  management of code, and functionalities to ensure specifications meet user needs.

• Prepare and implement detailed technical information systems project plans, by identifying

  milestones, scheduling, and assigning tasks and due dates to ensure efficient monitoring and

  health of the project. This activity includes the preparation and distribution of schedules of

  development work activities and assignments for subordinates based on knowledge of nature

  and duration of activities and assignments to be performed and provide deliverable timetable for

  efficient completion of work.

• Lead testing efforts of highly complex information systems by specifying and preparing test data to

  measure input and output processing functions of the information system.

• Lead debugging efforts of information systems by analyzing problems and errors through use of flow

  charts and program procedures to correct systems logic and increase system efficiency.

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.

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.