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The NYC Department of Finance (DOF) is responsible for administering the tax revenue laws of the city fairly, efficiently, and transparently to instill public confidence and encourage compliance while providing exceptional customer service.

The Finance Information Technology (FIT) Division designs, builds, and supports all facets of DOF’s computer systems, including hardware, software, applications, infrastructure, telephone, and data security. FIT delivers and administers tax-related payment programs for the City of New York by providing the information technology solutions needed to achieve its mission of collecting revenue while ensuring an efficient and improved customer experience. FIT is also responsible for the systems and websites which enable citywide payments, land records, property assessment, parking adjudications, customer service, and the Sheriff’s public safety work.

FIT's Property Tax System (PTS) is responsible for collecting and processing more that $45 billion in annual revenues. It plays a critical role in funding the City's services. The PTS team is a highly talented group of developers and application support professionals. They are seeking an experienced web application developer to develop new benefit and tax relief applications for the public. This important, high profile role requires a solutions-oriented person with proven, agile development skills to design and develop timely online, self-service offerings to support the changing needs of DOF's business operations and our taxpayers.

Duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

- Create solutions aligned with business and customer service requirements for the public-facing components of PTS and its supporting databases.
- Design, develop, configure, test, monitor, and optimize views for the public-facing components of PTS.
- Provide technical recommendations and be responsible of assigned project deliverables.
- Work closely with the team to enhance and extend existing capabilities of the vendor solution and build new ones.
- Routinely serve as in-house expert and authority regarding property tax applications/databases, providing status reports regarding milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across leadership. Communicate with and report to various levels of internal, as well as external, leadership/stakeholders, which include customers, and end users.
- Monitor/improve performance and troubleshoot/diagnose problems as needed.
- Support technical communications and change management activities as required.
- Provide on-call support after hours and/or weekends as necessary.

1. 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; or

2. 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; or

3. Education and or/or experience 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 60 semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. 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.

- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner. - Well organized with strong time management skills. - Strong ORACLE, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, and XML skills (5+ years). - UX, web, and mobile design (5+ years) - Report, dashboard, data visualization, etc. development (3+ years). - Data modeling and analysis (5+ years). - Experience troubleshooting and performance tuning (5+ years). - Proficient in technical writing. - Familiarity with Property Tax terminology and data a plus. - Familiarity with commercial off the shelf (vendor) Property Tax software applications, including but not limited to Tyler Technologies Enterprise Assessment and Tax etc.

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.