The Financial Information Services Agency-Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) has a vacancy for a Blaze Architect with Java experience who will provide support of production and development environments for our citywide automated time keeping system (CITYTIME). The candidate's primary responsibilities will include: performing Performing activities related to technical design, coding and unit testing of enhancements and defect corrections for the City's timekeeping system that includes: activity and payroll processing; time sheet, roster, status, and roll-call functionality; employee profile, leave balance, work schedule, self-care service, and integration between rule-based engine and Java application.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering or a related field and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or,

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to datacenter engineering and operations, cloud engineering and operations, complex IT infrastructure engineering; or,

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above.

- 5+ years of expert knowledge and working experience with Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor rule engine. - Design, create BOM, creating business rules, decision tables, decision trees, decision table metaphor, rule flows, testing & rule deployment. - Experience working with a team of application developers and integrating core applications with the FICO Blaze implementation. - Ability to provide production and maintenance of business rules. - Experience in translating business requirements into rules, Blaze Rule templates, business object models, managing business rules catalogs and RMA - Expertise in Java and J2EE - Memory management - Ability to write Junit testing - Ability to work evaluate and resolve any performance related issues - Ability to troubleshoot any production issue - Experience in IBM MQ is a plus - Working knowledge of ORM, Java Persistence API - Basic working knowledge of Oracle SQL. - Previous experience with time attendant and payroll system is a plus. - Excellent communication skills (oral and written), interpersonal, and organizational and strong project management skills. - Self-motivated with ability to work well with other groups in an enterprise wide, large-scale matrix environment

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/

New York City Residency is not required for this position

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.