Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Solution Architect / Technical Lead

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Full-Time

Location: MANHATTAN

No Exam Required

Department: IT & Telecom

Salary Range: $100,000.00 – $180,000.00

Job Description

The New York City Department of Transportation’s (NYC DOT) provides safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of pedestrians, goods, and vehicular traffic on the streets, highways, bridges, and waterways of the City's transportation network. NYC DOT rehabilitates and maintains the City's infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, streets, sidewalks, and highways.

The NYC DOT IT & Telecom division is an award-winning team leading business transformation through technology innovation to enhance the agency’s ability in fulfilling its mission. IT & Telecom acts as a strategic partner with all business units to promote technology initiatives by delivering quality service, and secure solutions that provide new and improved capabilities for the Agency. We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone in the division to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

IT & T division is seeking for a Senior IT Architect to be a member of our Project Management Office (PMO) Team. The selected candidate will perform technical design, development, API integrations, defining application architecture, evaluating application stacks, providing support for production applications, and maintaining web applications. The candidate will be expected to develop, and deliver quality applications, estimate the timing and effort of development tasks, help the team improve development and deployment practices, interface directly with customers, create documentation, and mentor developers.

Major Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise-level Open Source information technology efforts.
• Lead technical teams through SDLC phases of analysis, design, development, unit/ integration/ performance testing and implementation as per specifications and system design.
• Define application architecture, evaluate application stacks and integration options, document business volume metrics and build performance models.
• Review requirement specifications and business process artifacts for proposed solution implementations.
• Ensure reusability and scalability with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles.
• Understand existing application architecture/design and perform application development according to design specifications and coding standards.
• Understand network design, security architecture and performance constraints.
• Perform data modeling and logical/physical database design.
• Develop and integrate responsive design-based web applications using full stack Ruby on Rails with other Open Source technologies.
• Design, develop and optimize application databases using PostgreSQL, MS-SQL, Memcached and Redis.
• Build and integrate with RESTful APIs.
• Perform configuration management, continuous integration, version control, testing and document management.
• Implement best practices and methodologies for security, quality, and development approach.
• Participate in the full development of application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Adhere and enforce agile methodologies.
• Perform code review, provide feedback to enforce software development best practices and approve pull requests.
• Evaluate and refactor existing code structure to increase efficiency and performance.
• Test, monitor, and improve solutions through incremental updates/new features/optimization.
• Build secure web applications with user authentication and role-based access control.
• Develop/integrate Geographic Information System (GIS)-based services.
• Provide support for existing SSIS packages and SSRS reports.
• Participate in and contribute to formal/informal technical reviews and presentations.
• Explore new ideas and initiatives that encourage innovation.
• Collaborate with diverse teams.
• Design, prepare detailed technical specifications.
• Create/update design artifacts and deliverables.
• Mentor and guide developers.

Minimum Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics or related field and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and ten years of satisfactory full-time experience related to enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems; or

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

Preferred Skills

• 8+ years of total experience in object-oriented design, development, testing, and deployment of mission-critical business applications.
• 6+ years of hands-on full-stack development experience using modern development tools and practices.
• 6+ years on code manage and release management.
• 6+ years of relational database design.
• 4+ years in map-based application development and GIS mapping software.
• Good analytical and communication skills.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs.

Residency Requirement

New York City Residency is not required for this position.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce.