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City of New York · 1 month ago

Director of Application Development

New York City, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$181K/yr - $181K/yr

10+ years exp

The City of New York is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Director of Application Development for the Office of the District Attorney, Bronx County. This role involves providing strategic and operational leadership for application development initiatives, ensuring quality delivery, and leading the modernization and integration efforts within the Information Technology Bureau.

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Responsibilities

Provide strategic and operational leadership for all application development initiatives within the Information Technology Bureau (ITB) to ensure consistent quality, collaboration and delivery with adherence to scope, schedule, and budget

Partner with the Deputy CTO and Product Manager to prioritize platform enhancements, integrations, and modernization projects, to ensure project funding aligns with long-term operational priorities

Assist and support the Deputy CTO by providing day-to-day leadership to the Application Development team, directly supervising developers and guiding the implementation of BXDA’s modernization and integration efforts

Promote transparency and accountability by maintaining clear communication across teams and stakeholders. Coordinate with Infrastructure and Training teams to share project updates and ensure smooth post-deployment transitions with clear visibility, knowledge transfer, and shared accountability. Additionally, establish regular communication channels and feedback reports to update bureau leadership on progress, testing results, and deployment timelines

Define, standardize, and enforce coding, documentation, testing, integration, and deployment practices across .NET, Azure, Power Platform, and third-party systems while guiding the modernization and integration of legacy applications (ex. Delphi Pascal w/Oracle) into secure, web-based platforms with single-sign-on and mobile access capabilities

Lead architectural planning for cloud and on-premises solutions, ensuring scalability, data integrity, continuity, and compliance with BXDA, NYC IT, OWASP Top 10 security standards, ADA/WCAG, and applicable legal & regulatory frameworks across internal and external systems

Evaluate and adopt new technologies (e.g., AI automation, NLP) that enhance performance and automation, while developing structured execution plans for upgrades and enhancements based on validated user input to ensure alignment with BXDA’s IT roadmap and business strategy

Oversee and optimize daily operational workflows to ensure efficiency, consistency, and compliance with organizational standards and policies. Ensure team members understand well their responsibility in daily operations and application support

Establish and oversee a comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) framework that ensures all cross-product quality assurance, regression, performance, security and user acceptance testing cycles, in collaboration with the product manager and QA team, to ensure seamless integration across in-house, COTS, and automated platforms

Lead post-deployment evaluations, internal reviews, and readiness audits to validate that the systems meet security and accessibility standards, identify performance trends and drive continuous improvement in application reliability and user experience

Collaborate with BXDA/OTI cybersecurity teams to implement threat mitigation, vulnerability testing, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCP/DR) planning and patching protocols

Support recruitment, onboarding, and retention of high-performing developers, analysts, engineers. Conduct regular performance reviews, providing feedback and professional development plans to enhance skill growth and technical proficiency

Promote a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, teamwork, mutual support, accountability, and continuous learning across teams, encouraging innovation and peer knowledge sharing ensuring alignment with BXDA's mission

Manage vendor relationships, service-level agreements, and associated budgets by preparing and maintaining capital and expense plan requests for product builds, subscriptions, and vendor engagements to ensure technical quality and value delivery

Qualification

Application Development LeadershipCloud Solutions ArchitectureQuality Assurance FrameworkVendor ManagementData Integrity ComplianceTeam Performance ManagementInclusivityCollaborationContinuous Learning

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred)

Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible IT experience, including 5+ years in leadership of application development or architecture

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

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

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

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