IT PROJECT SPECIALIST

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. DOF’s 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. The Citywide Payment Applications (CPA) Unit is responsible for maintaining computer systems that collect the revenue and fees for the Department of Finance and 30 other NYC agencies. CityPay websites allow the public to conveniently make a variety of on-line payments to the city, ranging from property taxes to parking violations to applications for dog licenses. The CPA unit is seeking an Informatica Administrator who will be a key member of the team responsible for designing and developing mappings, transformations, sessions, workflows, as well as deploying integration solutions. The successful candidate will also play a lead role in the ongoing tuning, maintenance, and support of the CPA Informatica Power Center. Reporting to the Informatica Manager, the selected candidate’s responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following: • Drives improvement initiatives using creative collaboration techniques, emerging methodologies, and automation tools. • Creates interaction models and interface designs for IT projects based on established standards, business and technical requirements and input from functional team members. Participates in human-centered design activities, user research, software prototyping, and usability testing. • Ensure that software products and solutions are appropriately tested to meet functional (usability) and technical (performance) requirements. Create test cases, test scripts and defect reports. Execute test scripts and document progress and results. Collaborates with business analysts to understand business requirements. Collaborate with technical teams to understand application capabilities, environment set up and defect fixes. • Research and identifies emerging technologies, coordinate demonstrations, and proof of concept initiatives. Liaise with vendors, as necessary. • Recommends and manages the application of a specific methodology or technology on IT projects or advocates for exceptions to established practices to account for complexities and achieve project objectives. • Uses specialized business domain knowledge to define requirements based on an understanding of the customer’s business needs and objectives. • Code ETL data loads and transformations both for adding new data transformations and for modifying existing transformations. • Maintain and support the Department of Finance Citywide Payment Services & Standards Informatica Power Center application • Performing day-to-day and non-business hours support functions. • Installation of new Informatica instances and related services including validation of installation and arranging team testing. • Ongoing tuning and maintenance of all installation instances by regularly reviewing logs for errors and delays and addressing them. • Be primary contact for Informatica Support to resolve any coding or infrastructure issues. • Executing Production deployments. • Knowledge of Informatica Cloud and can manage the transition from our current in-house LINUX based application to a cloud-based application. Additional Information: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. This position may be eligible for remote work up to 2 days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed between the City and the Collective Bargaining Unit representing employees serving in the civil service title.