Technical Lead

Description

The company keeps the city's streets, highways, bridges, tunnels, sidewalks and waterways moving safely and efficiently for pedestrians, goods and vehicles, and maintains that infrastructure.

The IT and Telecom division drives business change through technology and works as a strategic partner to every business unit, delivering reliable, secure systems that add new capabilities for the agency.

This is a Senior IT Architect role (job code 95711) on the Project Management Office team, where you will lead technical work from design through production support.

The team is agile and works closely with business units, customers and other developers.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack web, web service and desktop applications on Microsoft.NET and SQL Server, using C#,.NET Core, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, HTML5, AJAX, WPF, WCF, MVC, jQuery, ReactJS, Ruby 2.x, LeafletJS, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL 9.x, Apache, Tomcat, Entity Framework, LINQ and Visual Studio 2017/2019.
• Manage the full application lifecycle using Git, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Jira.
• Turn business requirements into working applications that meet business goals.
• Design systems and detailed technical specifications, then build and maintain mission-critical systems, API integrations, web services and customer-facing web applications.
• Apply design patterns such as Singleton and MVC, and follow sound design principles.
• Provide technical support for web, mobile and desktop applications, and take responsibility for both front-end and back-end code in production.
• Design and normalize relational databases, write T-SQL and stored procedures on SQL Server, build reports with SQL Server Reporting Services and ad-hoc tools, and migrate and transform data with SSIS packages.
• Work with peers to find the best solution on the.NET platform and Microsoft stack.
• Test, monitor and improve solutions through incremental updates, new features and optimization.
• Refactor existing code to improve efficiency and performance.
• Set and follow best practices for security, quality and development.
• Produce design artifacts such as use case diagrams, application architecture, class and sequence diagrams, and high-level and detailed design documents.
• Act on feedback from your reporting managers.
• Estimate development effort accurately and coordinate with diverse teams.
• Mentor junior developers on best practices, development processes and software design, and help the team improve how it develops and deploys software.
• Interface directly with customers.

Requirements

• Either a bachelor's degree from an accredited college in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics or a related field, plus 6 years of satisfactory full-time experience in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems.
• Or a bachelor's degree from an accredited college, plus 10 years of satisfactory full-time experience in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, network architecture and/or IT infrastructure systems.
• Or education and/or experience equivalent to either of the above.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity employer that bans discrimination and harassment based on any legally protected status or characteristic.

Benefits

• Pension and retirement: qualified members of the City's pension program receive a guaranteed salary and health benefits for life, and 401K and 457 plans are available to supplement retirement savings.
• Competitive salaries for full-time employees.
• Health coverage for you and your family.
• Civil service, title-based union dental and vision coverage for you and your family.
• Paid vacation and sick time that accrues with years of service.
• Training programs, leadership development, career coaching, and approved on-site and off-site trainings and seminars.
• Discounts on theme parks, hotels, shows, events, movies and more.