Career Opportunity

PRSP Job Test 2

Recruitment: REF219K

Published: May 06, 2021

Apply using SmartRecruiters, the City and County of San Francisco's application portal.

About:

San Francisco is the fourth largest city in California with more than 865,000 residents and a daytime population that swells to more than 1.2 million. It is one of the most ethnically diverse major cities in the United States, and is also home to the third largest concentration of members of the LGBTQ community among the 50 largest U.S. cities.

The Department of Human Resources (DHR) is responsible for the administration of the merit system and human resources program for the City and County of San Francisco, including recruitment and selection, classification and compensation, EEO complaint investigations, workforce development, human resources information systems, employee/labor relations, workers' compensation, occupational health and safety programs, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and other related programs.

The Human Resources Modernization Project (formerly known as the Hiring Modernization Project) is a City-wide initiative led by DHR to research, identify, procure, and implement intuitive, user-friendly tools and processes to improve the City’s human resources practices and procedures. This project’s current phase involves implementing a new SaaS-based applicant tracking system and building a custom application to handle the unique parts of the government hiring process. Read more about our DHR Human Resources Modernization project at: https://sfdhr.org/evolution

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