Middleware Developer

Description

The Department of Social Services combines the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration and the Department of Homeless Services.

The Human Resources Administration works to reduce poverty and income inequality by giving New Yorkers in need core benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance.

The Department of Homeless Services works to prevent and end homelessness in New York City through a range of new approaches that help families and individuals leave shelter and become self-sufficient as fast as possible.

The Information Technology Services group is the technology arm of the department. It keeps both agencies running day to day, handles urgent issues, and plans for the long term. The group builds and improves the infrastructure and applications behind eligibility and recertification, case management, housing, employment engagement, revenue matching, claims, and personnel systems.

The group is hiring one IT Project Specialist to work as a Middleware Developer.

Responsibilities

• Build, integrate, test, deploy, and support middleware applications that agency programs request, using object-oriented methods, industry standards, and design patterns.
• Write code in Java and IBM's Java-based Extended Structured Query Language (ESQL), working with IBM Integration Toolkit, IBM MQ Explorer, and Oracle SQL Developer.
• Analyze performance, and design, document, review, and validate software requirements and technical specifications for the agency's middleware applications, using Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, and the same IBM and Oracle tools.
• Keep the development team, supervisors, executives, and other stakeholders informed about tasks and project status, in meetings and in writing.
• Develop, maintain, and support databases and information systems in middleware environments, defining data structures, data sets, and database objects, reviewing queries, and using database management and planning tools.
• Identify technical tasks, delivery timelines, and project risks with the project team.
• Give technical help to middleware application end users, and open and document trouble tickets in the agency's IT service management system.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication, or a related field, plus four years of satisfactory full-time experience in the required areas and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology, or domain.
• An associate degree from an accredited college in one of the fields listed above, plus six years of satisfactory full-time experience in the required areas and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology, or domain.
• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college, plus eight years of satisfactory full-time experience in the required areas and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology, or domain.
• Education and/or experience equivalent to any of the options above.

Conditions

Work hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm.

The position is IT Project Specialist, posting number 95710.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that works to keep a diverse workforce and a workplace free from discrimination and harassment based on any legally protected status or characteristic.