Technical Director

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

- We maintain building and resident safety and health
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
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Your Team:


Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agency’s effort to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing, shrinking costs, and increasing the pace of work. HPD Tech works to improve effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.

The Office of HPDTech is composed of 7 units: CIO (Chief Information Office), CTO (Chief Technology Office), CPO (Chief Product Office), Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Planning & Compliance, and Information Security.

Your Impact:

As the Technical Director for the Division of HPD Tech, you will report to the Product Executive Director and will work in conjunction with the Product Director and be responsible for delivering the highest value products for HPD’s business units.

Your Role:

Your role will be to work with product directors to understand business processes, goals, and objectives and ensure proper technology solutions are implemented to support these goals. This position will manage multiple development teams and be responsible for the development of new products and maintenance of existing products. This position will support work on multiple technology projects related to Division of Asset and Property Management.


Your Responsibilities:

- Manage a team of technical leads and software developers to deliver solutions, which meet business requirements.
- Work closely with the Chief Enterprise Architect, Chief Security officer to help deliver the technology vision and technology strategy.
- Collaborate with Product Directors, provide development related communications, and escalate problems in a timely manner.
- Oversee complex, cross-functional initiatives that require significant coordination between internal and external teams.
- Collaborate with individuals at all levels of the organization to define and support technology initiatives and solutions, including applications development and maintenance services.
- Keep technical debt manageable by enforcing code reviews, high test coverage, and effective documentation.
- Define and monitor technical policies, standards and procedures for application development and maintenance including SDLC, and implementation activities.
- Provide oversight for people management, project plans, and technology risks with attention to compliance with privacy, security, and organizational policies and procedures.
- Provide management and leadership for a team of talented engineers by identifying opportunities for improving quality, reliability, throughput, and product performance.
- Continue to build a team of talented engineers and retain top talent by continually leveraging their skills and guiding them in their career development.
- Complete all duties that were previously done by the incumbent.


Preferred Skills

- 8+ years of experience with software development experience in building web services, Microservices, MVC, WebAPI, XML, XSL, XSLT & SOAP, C#, JAVA, Java Script, C, VBSCRIPT, HTML5, AngularJS, JavaScript, Angular, SQL Server, SSIS and Oracle and highly scalable applications.
- 5+ years of experience overseeing teams that build scalable products.
- Experience managing a team of 10+ developers.
- Solid software development background including design patterns and data structures.
- Experience hands-on web-based application development experience.
- Experience hands-on cloud based COTS products.
- Experience and/or knowledge in building mobile products.
- Experienced in professional software engineering practices & best practices including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing, and operations.
- Experience working in agile/scrum environments.
- Excellent communication skills.

NOTE: Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted. This position is open to applicants who filed for an exam or those who are already permanent in the Computer Systems Manager title.

Please indicate in your cover letter whether you have filed for an exam or are already permanent in the Computer Systems Manager title. Applicants who filed for an exam will be required to produce a copy of their Order Confirmation Receipt at time of interview for verification.

This position may be eligible for remote work up to 2 days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and various unions.

1. A master's degree in computer science from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience in Information Technology (IT) including applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing, or user services. At least eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity in the areas of applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four (4) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and six (6) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or

4. A satisfactory combination of education and experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and must possess at least three (3) years of experience as described in "1" above, including the eighteen (18) months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

In the absence of a baccalaureate degree, undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 semester credits for six (6) months of the required experience. Graduate credits in computer science may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits in computer science for one (1) year of the required IT experience. However, undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen (18) months of experience in an administrative, managerial, executive, or supervisory capacity as described in "1" above.

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.