City of New York

Job Description

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.

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Your Team:

Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division 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. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.

Your Impact:

HPD Tech is seeking an IT Project Manager. This position will provide oversight to the technology initiative to support the HPD Office of Enforcement and Neighborhood Services(ENS) who is charged with enforcing the New York City Housing Maintenance Code and New York State Multiple Dwelling Law. HPDTech develops technology solutions to aid ENS in their mission of conducing inspections, issuing violations, correcting emergency conditions, as they work to ensure that every New Yorker has a safe home.

Your Role:

Your role will be to work closely with HPD's technology and business groups to ensure that efficiency and effectiveness of systems solutions are deployed in support of business objectives. You will oversee the implementation of the IT initiative within the organization. Their main duties include project planning, resource allocation and project implementation that is in line with the organization's standards and policies.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and implementation of projects.
• Ensure requirements are translated into technology tasks.
• Manage resources and schedule for project/program implementation.
• Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones.
• Direct and oversee project engineering team and manage conflicts within group.
• Perform team assessments and evaluations.
• Identify and solve project issues by engaging stakeholders.
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Design and maintain technical and project documentation.
• Collaboratively works with HPD Tech technical managers to assemble and coordinate staff dedicated to projects.
• Assists HPD Tech senior management in the evaluation of project management tools, the assessment of project management reporting approaches and standards.

Required Skills:

• More than 4 years of project management or IT management.
• More than 3 years of experience coordinating and/supporting IT business processes.
• More than 2 years coding experience.
• Demonstrate understanding of multiple project management life-cycle methodologies (especially iterative development).
• Scheduling and budgeting experience.

Preferred skills:

• Strong collaboration, relationship management communication and written skills.
• Good judgment, logical thinker and detail oriented.
• Ability to drive projects to completion.
• Familiarity with Oracle database architecture and design.
• Familiarity with Client-Server, Web architecture, and software development.
• MS Project/MS Office/Windows.
• Familiarity with .NET framework/environment, PowerBuilder, Java.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or equivalent preferred.

COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER - 1005D

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.