Solution Architect / Technical Lead
Company: City of New York
Location: New York
Posted on: April 24, 2024
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Job Description:
Company Description
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.
We offer our full-time employee's competitive salaries, excellent
benefit options and perks that include:
-Pension and Retirement Plans- Upon retirement, qualified members
of the City's generous pension program receive a guaranteed salary
and health benefits for the rest of their lives. There are also
401K and 457 plans available to supplement your retirement
needs.
-Health Coverage- We offer health coverage to meet your needs and
your family.
-Dental and Vision Coverage- We offer a wide variety of excellent
civil service title-based union dental and vision coverage to meet
the needs of you and your family.
-Paid Time Off- We offer paid vacation and sick time off which
accrues over time based on your years of service.
-Professional Development - We offer numerous training programs,
leadership development opportunities, and career coaching services,
while encouraging employees to attend approved off and on-site
trainings and seminars.
-Additional Perks - Our employees are eligible for discounts on top
theme parks, hotels, shows, events, movies and more.
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
such as Rubymine, RVM, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, LeafletJS, jQuery,
DataTables, Bootstrap, Polymer, XML/JSON-based web services on
Linux, Windows, Ubuntu operating systems, and Apache/Tomcat web
servers.
-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 with tools such as AWS,
Docker, Git/GitHub, RSpec, Cucumber, Travis, PivotalTracker and
Jira.
-Implement best practices and methodologies for security, quality,
and development approach.
-Participate in the full development of application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) using Git/Microsoft Azure DevOps/Jira.
-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.
-Accurately estimate time required to complete development
tasks.
-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 based on ESRI, Google, MapBox, and Open Source GIS
solutions.
-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.
-Take inputs from reporting manager(s) and appropriately apply
comments/feedback.
-Collaborate with diverse teams.
-Design, prepare detailed technical specifications.
-Create/update design artifacts and deliverables such as use case
diagrams, application architecture, class/sequence diagrams, and
high-level/detailed design documentation.
-Demonstrate the ability to cooperate with a variety of people and
achieve results.
-Proactively initiate, develop and maintain effective working
relationships with team members.
-Accountable for both front-end and back-end technologies in a web
production environment.
-Mentor and guide developers.
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.
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.
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