The Office of Revenue Management & Development (ORMD) maximizes federal and state funding of HRA costs through the activities of developing revenue-enhancing initiatives and carrying out revenue-generating projects, savings millions of City tax levy dollars. The Division of Process Enhancement and Automation Division is comprised of three Divisions in the ongoing development and enhancement of complex systems and applications, integrated across a multiplatform environment to provide users with uniform, accurate, and sound data. The Division ensures the analysis and development of user-friendly, well documented integrated systems, which include contingency planning and troubleshooting functions to maintain critical applications uninterrupted. This involves development of both short-and-long term plans to employ cutting edge software and hardware technologies to enhance existing automated systems and introduce increasingly productive systems that will increase efficiency, ensure system security, reduce error, generate cost savings and improve service to users and the public.

ORMD is recruiting for one (1) Computer Specialist (Software) I to function as Database Specialist within Strategic Enterprise and Development (SEAD) who will:

- Lead in the development of new and changed systems specifications, providing appropriate test data, and implementing of the writing and testing programs.

- Perform system analysis functions and data collection activities.

- Develop and create enhancements to various new and existing Finance Office Microsoft Access databases.

- Ensure database integrity, stability and system availability; and making changes, updates and modifications to database structure and data, as well as train key members of the staff on how to use the new database.

- Interact regularly with designated users to ensure that all information received is presented as requested for the accurate development of new database management systems.

- Analyze and determine informational needs and elements, data relationships and attributes, proposed manipulation, dataflow and storage requirements, and data output and reporting capabilities.

- Extract data from legacy systems using pass through queries. Import /export data to and from legacy systems.

- Provide technical leadership to team members and may operate in a lead role on one or more projects or programs.

(1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory full-time software experience in designing, programming, debugging, maintaining, implementing, and enhancing computer software applications, systems programming, systems analysis and design, data communication software, or database design and programming, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(2) A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory software experience as described in “1" above, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is equivalent to (1) or (2) above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in (2) above on the basis that sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However, all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory full-time software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience, you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations, technical support, quality assurance (QA), hardware installation, help desk, or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV, in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above, individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, operating systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or on-line applications programming.

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