Advanced Software Engineer - Unifier

About the role

The MTA transportation network has very large systems and infrastructure for financial, business, automated train, transportation, power, and physical security. The MTA IT Department is centrally responsible for providing a full range of Information and Operational Technology services to the MTA agencies and administrative units through its operating and support units. Services are provided on a 7/24/365 basis in support of the MTA organization and its ridership.

Responsibilities

• Leads requirements management, software engineering, system testing, and acceptance testing activities across all stages and iterations for complex software development and integration initiatives.
• Affords assistance with the organization's selection, adaptation, and adoption of new models, methods, and tools.
• Collaborates with parties involved in product, systems or service design.
• Might own high value services and/or products.
• Leads the definition, documentation, and successful completion of large projects within business objectives and resource constraints, ensuring adherence to agreed enterprise architectures, and the application of effective change-release-, risk-, and quality-management processes.
• Drafts and maintains software support processes and documentation.
• Prioritizes and diagnoses incidents, investigates and resolves complex issues, leads root cause analysis, and proposes corrective actions.
• Conducts application licensing, security, backup, and disaster recovery verification initiatives.
• Develops system and acceptance testing criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, features, business processes, and business rules.
• Designs, specifies and executes test cases and scenarios.
• Plans and leads user experience design activities for large programs and products, providing expert advice to ensure that usability, accessibility, and visual design requirements are satisfied.
• Develops, maintains, and applies tools and documentation to track, log and maintain accurate and complete system information.
• Audits complex software systems for adherence to configuration standards.
• Plans, organizes, conducts, and oversees assigned quality and safety assurance assessments involving complex systems and cross-functional teams.
• Provides expert advice to assurance activities.
• Manages operational relationships with suppliers to ensure potential disputes or conflicts are raised and resolved.
• Contributes technical elements of RFP/RFIs and negotiates contract terms and SLAs.
• Manage suppliers to meet key performance indicators.
• Continuously develops and maintains personal knowledge of software engineering practices, emerging trends, and technologies.
• Provides technical advice to project teams and mentors less experienced staff to foster talent development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS).
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Must possess a minimum at least one of the following professional certifications in subject domain including but not limited to: Certified Scrum Developer (CSD), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Software Development Professional (CSDP), Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), Amazon Certified: AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer, Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP)

Skills

• Hands-on programming experience in business setting.
• Proficiency in at least one software engineering methodology, including but not limited to: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean, Rapid Application Development (RAD).
• Experience applying a structured validation and testing method, including but not limited to: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing.
• Collaboration skills to ensure design specifications are seamlessly implemented by the development team.
• Familiarity with version control.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and navigate organizational ambiguity.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Communicates Effectively.
• Advanced in technical Skills, tech savvy, values diversity.
• Adept customer focus, cultivates Innovation.