Project Manager

Project Manager

Full-time

Agency: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Job Category: Technology, Data & Innovation

Job Description

**IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION, CANDIDATE MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE TITLE OF COMPUTER SYSTEM MANAGER OR BE REACHABLE ON THE CIVIL SERVICE LIST EXAM #9011, OR ELIGIBLE UNDER THE 55A PROGRAM.** 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 to fulfill 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 employees competitive salaries, excellent benefit options and perks that include:

• Pension and Retirement Plans
• Health Care Coverage
• Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• Professional Development
• Additional Perks

Under managerial direction, perform extremely difficult, responsible and complex work in planning, coordinating and overseeing the development and progress of major IT projects. This will include making determination of costs, of time estimates and of requirements associated with each IT project. The candidate will be responsible for, design, development, maintenance, enhancement and support of all agency applications on web, client-server, mainframe and network platforms. The candidate will lead in-house development teams, as well as consultant teams, while working on a variety of complex projects simultaneously, in addition to performing related work. The candidate will report directly to the Director of the Project Management Office. The candidate will have wide latitude to exercise independent judgment and implement initiatives. The principle responsibilities of the position will be to:

• Define project scope, develops schedules, establishes budget/cost, goals and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with stakeholders and senior management
• Apply project management concepts, principles, and practices for delivering tactical or strategic projects that are high in complexity
• Serve as an in-house expert and authority regarding computer application development for programs of varying degrees of complexity and specialization
• Monitor project activities and resources in order to mitigate risk
• Supervise a programming staff engaged in work involving computer application development
• Work closely with Project Management Office to ensure completion of projects on-time and on-budget
• Implement or maintain quality assurance processes
• Contribute to DOT's strategic planning initiatives by suggesting/understanding available technology options to satisfy current and future business needs
• Create and maintain strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and coherent fashion
• Ensure successful completion of solution implementations utilizing strong leadership, project and resource management skills
• Create and maintain application development project plans that communicate tasks, milestone dates, status and resource allocation
• Set up Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes following standard development methodologies (Agile Scrum/Waterfall/RUP)
• Brainstorm/communicate solution ideas with the team, clients, and management to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and are part of the solution
• Show expertise in using project management tools such as MS-Project, Project Server, Jira, Primavera, Azure Dev Ops and/or Microsoft Visio
• Thoughtfully recommends changes, monitors Change Management Plan, ensures Quality Management Plan is followed, regularly reviews project performance metrics and generates reports that reveal project status, efficacy, forecasts needs and highlights deficiencies
• Proactively identifies stakeholder points of conflict and potential project issues while identifying project risks & issues to minimize project performance impacts

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.