Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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.
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Your Team:


Housing Preservation & Development Technology (HPD Tech) is the IT division within HPD. The Office of HPD Tech leads the agency’s effort 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.

The Office of HPDTech is composed of 7 units: CIO (Chief Information Office), CTO (Chief Technology Office), CPO (Chief Product Office), Budget, Enterprise Architecture, Planning & Compliance, and Information Security.

Your Impact:

As the GIS Analyst for the Office of HPD Tech, you will work with clients and the GIS team to maintain ArcGIS Enterprise for supporting web-based geospatial applications and ArcGIS Desktop applications.

Your Role:

The position shares responsibility for ArcGIS Enterprise maintenance, GIS data management, data analysis, map production, user support, and training.

Your Responsibilities:

- Maintain ArcGIS Enterprise in multiple environments: ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Data Store, and ArcGIS Enterprise Portal.
- Manage SDE enterprise geodatabase and file geodatabases.
- Retrieve data sources for production and update authoritative data in enterprise geodatabases.
- Train and support GIS users.
- Perform data analysis and map production tasks.
- Document processes and workflows to help convey information to users of different levels of expertise.

Required Skills:
- 1+ years of experience in ArcGIS Desktop.
- 1+ years of experience in ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Data Store.
- 1+ years of experience in ArcGIS Data Formats – Feature Classes, Feature Datasets, File Geodatabase, Enterprise Geodatabase.
- 1+ years of experience in ArcGIS Front-End Data Formats – Feature Services, Map Services, Image Services.
- 1+ years of experience in RDBMS – Oracle, SQL Server.

Preferred skills:
- Experience writing relational database queries in SQL.
- Experience in Python, ArcPy.
- Knowledge of data governance principles and best practices.

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and one year of satisfactory full-time computer software experience in computer systems development and analysis, applications programming, database administration, maintenance and support, systems programming, data communications, mainframe development, mobile development, web development and design; or

2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and five years of satisfactory full-time computer software experience as described in "1" above; or

3. Education and or/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above. College education may be substituted for up to two years of the required experience in "2" above on the basis that 60 semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. In addition, 24 semester credits from an accredited college or graduate school in computer science or a related field, or a certificate of at least 625 hours in computer programming from an accredited technical school (post high school), may be substituted for one year of experience. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and at least one year of satisfactory full-time experience as described in "1" above.

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.