Career Opportunity

Tina S Technical Lead - Template

Recruitment: REF35P

Published: March 10, 2021

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APPOINTMENT TYPE - Permanent Exempt: This position is excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer. The duration of the appointment shall not exceed 36 months.

WHO ARE WE?
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees working in seven counties with a combined annual operating budget of over $900 million.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at www.sfwater.org

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality. As you explore career opportunities with us, download our career guide and learn about what you can expect during the hiring process.

Role description

Building an infrastructure that allows the City and County of San Francisco to process ~150,000 job applications and to hire thousands of workers every year across 1000+ different types of jobs.

Under supervision, the 1053 Technical Lead assists the Human Resources Modernization Team with identifying, procuring, and implementing intuitive, user-friendly tools and processes through agile product development and DevOps (Development and Operations) best practices. 

Duties of this position include but are not limited to:

• Serve on a team with internal colleagues and vendors to maintain and improve the applicant tracking system solution, as well as build new user-focused digital services for HR modernization
• Participate in prototyping, feature prioritization, scrum meetings, and code review, and help lead architecture discussions
• Help lead decisions about our development and deployment environments
• Practice and enthusiastically share Agile methodologies throughout all stages of the project lifecycle
• Take pride of ownership in all projects you touch and leave code better than you found it. Contribute to documentation, tests, style fixes, accessibility, performance, security, etc.
• Assist in defining technical system and integration requirements in future procurement phases of the project 
• Overseeing the migration of legacy data between platforms including determining the structure of databases, normalizing data, and/or performing the conversion of data between platforms
• Determining security levels for systems to ensure data integrity
• Deliver projects that are easy to deploy, update, and monitor by ensuring the tooling for this is present early in the project development cycle
• Build web applications that are mobile-first and accessible from the start
• Maintain a production system

How to qualify

Education:
An associate degree in computer science or a closely related field from an accredited college or university OR its equivalent in terms of total course credits/units [i.e., at least sixty (60) semester or ninety (90) quarter credits/units with a minimum of twenty (20) semester or thirty (30) quarter credits/units in computer science or a closely-related field]. 

Experience:
Three (3) years in the information systems field, including system analysis, business process design, development and implementation of business application solutions or IT project management. 

Substitution:
Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis (up to a maximum of two (2) years). One (1) year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester units / forty-five (45) quarter units with a minimum of 10 semester / 15 quarter units in computer science or a closely related field.

Desirable qualifications:

• Prior experience helping large organizations (especially public sector) migrate from legacy systems to more modern cloud-based modular solutions
• Prior experience with deploying and maintaining custom software solutions adopting modern software development practices such as source control, continuous integration/continuous deployment, and automated testing
• Prior experience creating or extending REST APIs
• Demonstrated experience writing clear, well-tested code using unit and end-to-end testing frameworks
• Experience with development for mobile browsers, including understanding of the use of responsive web design and responsive front-end development
• Commitment to building services for all San Franciscans, including familiarity with usability, accessibility, and internationalization
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology and experience working in iterative development cycles
• Ability to work well on a team that embraces user-centered design with a focus on both user and stakeholder needs. Ability to collaborate with designers to rapidly prototype ideas
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

What else should I know?

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Carol Isen - Acting Human Resources Director

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Carol Isen - Acting Human Resources Director

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