NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development is hiring: Business Analyst

NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development provided pay range

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Base pay range

$95,233.00/yr - $109,518.00/yr

Agency Description
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

• We maintain building and resident safety and health
• We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
• We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth
Your Team
Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. HPD Tech is committed to transform HPD through technology by promoting productivity and eliminating manual processing, shrinking costs and increasing the pace of work.
HPD Tech works to improve effectiveness of business processes using core applications for flawless execution. HPD Tech empowers decision makers with access to quality (complete and accurate) information to anticipate and pro-actively react to building, neighborhood and market conditions.
Your Impact
HPD Tech is seeking a Business Analyst (BA). This position is a full performance level Business Analyst (BA) position managing a modernization of the Section 8 and other subsidy program, under in Housing Stability and Access Division through maintenance and enhancements to existing Dotnet based systems. And future conversions of existing legacy systems to dotnet platform and other suitable COTS/Platform based solutions. HPDTech is actively engaged in developing technology solutions to aid efficient administration of programs in Division of Housing Access and Stability (HAS).
Your Role
HPD seeks an experienced professional to serve as a Business Analyst (BA). The BA will be a key development team member representing the business owners and stakeholders. The primary responsibility will be to translate business needs for the development of technology solutions.
Your Responsibilities

• Business Process Analysis: Develop an in-depth knowledge of business operations, document business processes and work with stakeholders to design new processes to achieve strategic goals. Understand on a broad level how operations between different business units interact and flow together. Lead technology team discussions concerning business requirements.
• Business Data Analysis: Develop an in-depth understanding of enterprise data objects and attributes. Work with business stakeholders to define functional data needs for the creation of data marts.
• Communication and Implementation: Represent business as a subject matter expert in technical discussions. Must be able to convey requirements to developers, UI/UX, quality assurance testers and information modelers through process flows, user stories, and use cases. The BA will be responsible for working with vendors, to provide oversight during requirements analysis and User acceptance testing, to ensure right requirements are captured and the deliveries meet the business process prescribed.
• Team Member: The BA will work in connection with multiple BA’s under the direction of a Lead BA for product specific requirement gathering efforts and discussions.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of experience of analysis, requirements gathering, and/or operations analysis/process design
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly being able to discuss business needs to both technical and non-technical staff
• Excellent people skills and the ability to provide leadership in a collaborative, team-driven approach
• Independent thinking and decision-making skills
• Capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast paced, high-volume environment and the ability to adapt plans to unexpected changes
• Competence in SQL or other data query language
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall software development life cycle approaches
• Familiarity with UML process diagramming, including experience with Microsoft Visio
• Have an aptitude for solving puzzles and bringing clarity to abstract, often contradictory needs
• Advanced degree in a relevant field is strongly preferred (e.g. Business Administration, Public Administration, Public Policy, Computer Science, Information Systems, Urban Planning, Law, etc.)

Preferred Skills
The strongest candidates will demonstrate an intellectual curiosity and/or experience in data analytics for public policy, affordable housing, real estate development, and/or city government.
Minimum Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twenty-four (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory full-time software experience in designing, programming, debugging, maintaining, implementing, and enhancing computer software applications, systems programming, systems analysis and design, data communication software, or database design and programming, including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of full-time satisfactory software experience as described in “1