Associate Commissioner, Enterprise Development & Architecture

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) is an integral part of the City's evolving criminal justice system, participating in reform initiatives and strategies aimed to move the City towards a smaller jail system without compromising public safety. The DOC is responsible for maintaining a safe and secure environment for our employees, visitors, volunteers, and people in our custody. Importantly, safe jails enable DOC to provide people in custody with the tools and opportunities they need to successfully re-enter their communities. The DOC operates facilities and court commands across the five boroughs with more than 9,500 diverse professionals and knowledgeable experts.

The New York City Department of Correction is seeking a candidate to serve as the Associate Commissioner of Enterprise Development and Architecture. The ideal candidate will be responsible to architect, develop and build highly scalable applications to enable new and innovative solutions. To be successful, you must have proven experience in driving critical engineering and architectural decisions for a large organization. The candidate will contribute to DOC's technology strategy, develop, maintain and support cloud-based and desktop applications, migrate legacy applications onto new platforms and have a forward-looking view on innovative ways to leverage technology to enable, enhance and transform business capabilities and services.

Duties for this position include:

• Identify, drive and develop transformative, innovative technology initiatives to support DOC's strategic

plan

• Design, develop, test and support software solutions and architecture to meet business requirements

• Provide overall project design and estimates that meet both business and technology strategy needs

during project scoping phases

• Manage vendor-based and legacy applications and drive the migration of legacy applications to

modernized solutions that conform to enterprise standards

• Collaborate with Agency and IT leadership across various disciplines to provide guidance, direction

and recommendations to address a wide range of business and technology needs with emphasis on

optimized, timely and successful delivery of solutions

• Apply knowledge of technology frameworks, technical environment and cross-organizational IT

functions across a variety of large, strategic efforts

• Leverage deep understanding of IT, emerging technologies and technical capabilities to guide the

team to build, deploy, test and manage IT services

• Partner with business leaders to understand data needs and provide highly accurate, reliable, and

high-performance data warehouse solutions to facilitate business intelligence and advanced analytics to

drive critical business operations

• Manage a team of database professionals to design, build, and maintain enterprise databases

• Define the vision for an enterprise-wide user interface and ensure consistency of design across the

entire application portfolio

• Manage the deployment, administration, maintenance and support of middleware applications on

diverse platforms with varying interfaces

• Communicate a compelling vision and need for change that generates excitement, enthusiasm and

commitment to the process

• Facilitate architecture governance and technical review oversight across the portfolio ensuring

compliance with technical standards, policies and procedures

• Champion good software engineering habits and apply pragmatic software design patterns to solve

software engineering challenges.

• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads to make sound technical decisions, and help build

effective software engineering practices

• Drive a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement and lifelong learning

Minimum Qualifications

1.A Master's Degree from an accredited college in Public Administration, Personnel Administration,

Business Administration, Human Services, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Psychology or an

equivalent/related field, plus four years of satisfactory experience of a nature to qualify for the duties

and responsibilities of the position, at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative,

managerial, or executive capacity or supervising personnel performing activities related to the duties

of the position; or

2.A bachelor's degree from an accredited college and six years of satisfactory experience of a nature

to qualify for the duties and responsibilities of the position, at least 18 months of which must have been

in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity or supervising personnel performing activities

related to the duties of the position; or

3.A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and ten years of satisfactory, full-time

progressively responsible experience as described in "1" above, 18 months of which must have been

in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity.

Preferred Skills

• Experience leading the development of mission-critical SaaS and cloud-based applications

• Hands on experience developing applications deployed using public cloud infrastructure such as Axure and AWS

• Strong experience solving complex architectural problems and building integrations across large platforms

• Consistent track record of building consensus around architectural solutions that align with business vision and technical strategy

• Ability to apply a strategic mentality to help produce scalable and maintainable technology solutions

• Comprehensive knowledge of internet, mobile and application architecture as well as current and emerging technologies

• Strong knowledge of applicable security and privacy practices and regulations

• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, documentation, and influencing skills

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education's website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

Additional Information

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.