APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE COMPUTER ASSOCIATE (SOFTWARE) CIVIL SERVICE TITLE. The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible. Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSS's technology services organization. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, case management systems, housing systems, employment/work engagement services, revenue producing computer matches, claiming systems, and personnel systems. Information Technology Services (ITS) is recruiting for one (1) Computer Associate (Software) III, to function as a Senior Principal Programmer Analyst, who will: - among various existing legacy systems reflecting these new system requirements. - Engage in all phases of project design, development, and specification writing. for performing system analyses on software programs, applications, and web services and provides highly complex technical assistance related to case management system. - Perform analysis, create/modify specifications using ADO's through Azure DevOps and Microsoft tools, during the different phases of the project to help minimize business impact. - Determine the feasibility of their need requests, identify gaps at early stages and coordinating and facilitating data processing activities relative to user requirements. plan proposals with development staff and in planning meetings and negotiations over the scope. Hours/Shift: A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and one year of satisfactory full-time computer software experience in computer systems development and analysis, applications programming, database administration, maintenance and support, systems programming, data communications, mainframe development, mobile development, web development and design; A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of satisfactory full-time computer software experience as described in "1" above; In addition, 24 semester credits from an accredited college or graduate school in computer science or a related field, or a certificate of at least 625 hours in computer programming from an accredited technical school (post high school), may be substituted for one year of experience. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and at least one year of satisfactory full-time experience as described in "1" above. APPLICANTS MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE COMPUTER ASSOCIATE (SOFTWARE) CIVIL SERVICE TITLE. The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS is committed to preventing and addressing homelessness in New York City by employing a variety of innovative strategies to help families and individuals successfully exit shelter and return to self-sufficiency as quickly as possible. Information Technology Services (ITS) is DSS's technology services organization. ITS creates and enhances the technology infrastructure and computer applications that support HRA and DHS and develops applications, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, case management systems, housing systems, employment/work engagement services, revenue producing computer matches, claiming systems, and personnel systems. Information Technology Services (ITS) is recruiting for one (1) Computer Associate (Software) III, to function as a Senior Principal Programmer Analyst, who will: - among various existing legacy systems reflecting these new system requirements. - Engage in all phases of project design, development, and specification writing. for performing system analyses on software programs, applications, and web services and provides highly complex technical assistance related to case management system. - Perform analysis, create/modify specifications using ADO's through Azure DevOps and Microsoft tools, during the different phases of the project to help minimize business impact. - Determine the feasibility of their need requests, identify gaps at early stages and coordinating and facilitating data processing activities relative to user requirements. plan proposals with development staff and in planning meetings and negotiations over the scope. Hours/Shift: A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and one year of satisfactory full-time computer software experience in computer systems development and analysis, applications programming, database administration, maintenance and support, systems programming, data communications, mainframe development, mobile development, web development and design; A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of satisfactory full-time computer software experience as described in "1" above; In addition, 24 semester credits from an accredited college or graduate school in computer science or a related field, or a certificate of at least 625 hours in computer programming from an accredited technical school (post high school), may be substituted for one year of experience. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and at least one year of satisfactory full-time experience as described in "1" above. Experience in Agile, Azure DeOps and other Microsoft tools towards building and/orenhancement of software and/or applications.- Proficiency in all phases of project design, development, and specification writing.- Experience/knowledge in SQL/Oracle queries and analysis of complex data. This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. 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