Deputy Director

About the role

The Fire Department, City of New York (FDNY), seeks a full-time Deputy Director in the Bureau of Enterprise Technology. Reporting directly to Director of Application Development, the selected candidate will be responsible for managing a team of business analysts, quality assurance engineers and UI/UX designers as well as application development projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage Business Analysts to gather application development requirements and design solutions with the UX designers.
• Manage Quality Assurance Analysts to support application development team by identifying bugs and defects to ensure quality of deliverables.
• Standardize UI designs, components and user experience for app development projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• Six (6) years of progressively responsible full-time paid experience supervising or administering computer operations involving a large-scale mainframe, network, or multi-tier computer environment at least 18 months of which shall have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity.
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of general experience described above. In the absence of a baccalaureate degree, undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of general experience described above on the basis of 30 semester credits for six (6) months of experience.
• A master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration or Management of Administration may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of general experience described above. In the absence of a master's degree, graduate credits in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration or Management of Administration may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of the general experience on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits for one (1) year of experience. However, undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen (18) months of experience in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity.

Preferred Skills

• May be required to work shifts including nights, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
• Experience with software development frameworks and technologies including AngularJS, ReactJS, React-Native, Ionic/Cordova, and Oracle Apex/DB.
• IT system integrations and real-time data communication using the following: RESTful APIs, Web Services, WebSocket, Oracle Service Bus and API Gateway.
• Design wireframes and prototyping high fidelity designs using tools such as Figma and Moqups.
• Automate testing scripts such as VBScript and knowledge of MicroFocus tools: ALM, Quality Center, Octane, UFT and Load Runner.