The New York City Department of Transportation’s (NYC DOT) provides safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of pedestrians, goods, and vehicular traffic on the streets, highways, bridges, and waterways of the City's transportation network. NYC DOT rehabilitates and maintains the City's infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, streets, sidewalks, and highways. The NYC DOT IT & Telecom division is an award-winning team leading business transformation through technology innovation to enhance the agency’s ability to fulfill its mission. IT & Telecom acts as a strategic partner with all business units to promote technology initiatives by delivering quality service, and secure solutions that provide new and improved capabilities for the Agency. We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone in the division to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer our full-time employees competitive salaries, excellent benefit options and perks that include:
- Pension and Retirement Plans- Upon retirement, qualified members of the City’s generous pension program receive a guaranteed salary and health benefits for the rest of their lives. There are also 401K and 457 plans available to supplement your retirement needs.
- Health Care Coverage- We offer a multitude of health care plans that are sure to meet the needs of you and your family.
- Dental and Vision Coverage- We offer a wide variety of excellent civil service title-based union dental and vision coverage for individuals and families.
- Paid Time Off- We offer paid vacation and sick time off which accrues over time based on your years of service.
- Professional Development - We offer numerous training programs, leadership development opportunities, and career coaching services, while encouraging employees to attend approved off and on-site trainings and seminars.
- Additional Perks - Our employees are eligible for discounts on top theme parks, hotels, shows, events, movies and more.
The New York City Department of Transportation’s (DOT) IT & Telecom division is seeking a SharePoint Developer to develop and manage various applications in SharePoint that will integrate with Azure Cloud, Microsoft O365 (Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive), Project Server, Power BI and Power Apps.
Under the direction of the Director of Hosting & Network Operations and in coordination and cooperation with DOT business units, the successful candidate will develop and manage multiple projects that enhance the productivity of diverse business units, providing solutions that will streamline organizational workflows to achieve increased service quality and improved service delivery using content management and process automation.
The successful candidate will serve as an IT Project Specialist within the IT & Telecom division of DOT. Responsibilities will include, but not limited to the following:
- SharePoint site and site collection management, support and continued development.
- Developing custom web applications using the .NET framework, JavaScript and JQuery.
- Build new landing page, department templates/pages, newsletter, banner, and videos accessible to any device.
- Implement, deploy, package, and maintain new intranet portal site and SharePoint site.
- Use SharePoint Framework SPFx to create website designs with OOTB, UI extension, page layouts, themes, and display templates.
- Build forms and workflow using SharePoint Designer, InfoPath and PowerApps/Flow.
- Maintain Project Web App Settings, e.g., Personal, Enterprise, Queue and Database Administration, Workflow and Task Management, etc.
- Manage connected SharePoint sites in Project Server.
Minimum Qualifications
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
- An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
- Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" above.
Preferred Skills
- Strong knowledge and understanding in SharePoint server.
- Experience using Microsoft Power Apps.
- Microsoft Project Server.
- Ability to apply, maintain, and manage permissions (including users, groups, and categories, e.g., Project, Resources).
- Able to demonstrate experience that includes a heavy focus on Portal, Collaboration, ECM, Enterprise Integration and Architecture with a specific focus on SharePoint 2016 On Premise and Office 365/SharePoint Online and MS technologies.
- Experience in Microsoft Project/Project-related aspects of SharePoint.
- Ability to communicate Project Server product benefits and our service capabilities and offerings to IT and business leaders.
- Experience performing Project Server backup and restoration.
- Great communications and customer service skills.
- Experience building custom SharePoint web parts and custom SharePoint Visual Studio workflows.
- Understanding of building SharePoint customizations using site definitions, custom content types, features and solution packages.
- Experience working on Medium to Large-Scale SharePoint Farms.
- Strong expertise in Business Process Automation and Strong understanding of InfoPath Forms Services and experience building custom InfoPath forms with backend systems and web services.
- Willing to ask questions, offer up new ideas, and contribute to the overall success of the team.
- Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) preferred.
- Excellent leadership skills including the ability to develop and communicate a vision that inspires and motivates staff and aligns with the overall IT and business strategies.
- Ability to build partnerships with the business units and demonstrate the business value of IT.
- Ability to build partnerships and work effectively with the IT teams.
- Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, planning, and execution skills.
- Strong business acumen, including industry and domain-specific knowledge of the enterprise and its business units.
- Understanding of current and emerging Cloud infrastructure technologies and practices and how other organizations are employing them and the ability to identify and act on opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to business leaders and business concepts to the IT workforce and to effectively negotiate contracts.
- Strong knowledge with Cloud technologies such as Azure and Microsoft 365.
- Strong knowledge with Security and Compliance with regards to Best Security practices.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness
As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at
Residency Requirement
New York City Residency is not required for this position.
Additional Information
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.
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