APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) CIVIL SERVICE TITLE.

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.

Position OverviewInformation Technology Services, Office of Enterprise Shared Services is recruiting for one (1) Computer Specialist (SW) Level IV, to function as Project Director, who will:

Be responsible for warehouse design, complex transformation, integration, mapping, and transport data to multiple targets. Experience with various source systems including mainframe, mapper, OLAP, and flat files. Strong experience with E-R modeling, modeling with Snowflake schema, slowly changing dimension, data analytics, and system architecture.Ensure integrity, quality, and timeliness of technical deliverables related to development, through regular monitoring, testing, and management of code, and functionalities.Develop functional specifications and system design specifications. Ensure consistency, clarity, and quality in and across all types of system design documentation. Develop test plans and analyze and test large volumes of complex data.Write clear technical design deliverables to document technical and non-technical functionalities and features of systems/programs/applications.Lead teams responsible for a variety of technical design, development, testing, and on-time delivery of mission and business critical web applications in a large data warehouse environment.Oversee development, configuration, and security of systems/programs/applications, as well as upgrades and enhancements to existing applications and business intelligence systems, using HRA technology group’s standard Oracle PL/SQL and associated development tools.Plan, manage, and promote system/program/application efficiency and security by integrating performance metrics and encryption. Utilize best practices development processes/procedures and implementation plans to drive standards, and support value delivery across the development lifecycle.

Hours/Shift9am – 5pm

Minimum 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

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