SQL Developer Data Engineer

ONLY PERMANENT EMPLOYEES IN THE TITLE AND THOSE THAT ARE REACHABLE ON THE COMPUTER SPECIALIST (SOFTWARE) CIVIL SERVICE LIST ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY.

AGENCY DESCRIPTION
Established in 1805 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential regardless of who they are how old they are where they are from or where they live.

As a worldrenowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge and responding to urgent public health crises from New York Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation expertise and programs and services. We serve as the population health strategist and policy and planning authority for the City of New York while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy including programs and services focused on food and nutrition antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.

Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recently completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are:
1) To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems
2) Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated disease including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths strengthening our youth mental health systems and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for womens health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7000plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all our work and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racisms impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021 the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance antiracist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power opportunity and access the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.


The Bureau of Vital Statistics is responsible for registering and maintaining records of all births and deaths that occur in New York City. The bureau issues analyzes and reports on 285000 vital events each year. The bureau is a very large customer service operation providing death certification services on a 24/7 basis issuing more than 900000 certified copies of birth and death records and fulfilling hundreds of data requests annually.

Duties will include but not be limited to:
Various aspects of the software development lifecycle including researching designing building and testing various aspects of the eVital ecosystem.
Supporting and enhancing new and existing interfaces (APIs).
Modernizing development of workflows for data reporting and data sharing using fast healthcare interoperable resources (FHIR).
Implementing and refining data integration processes including ETL tasks to support data accuracy and availability.
Coadministration of the evital system including oversight of user access controls system configurations and related interfaces.
Ensure rigorous adherence to data security standards and compliance with privacy laws.
Assist in the analysis of large data sets to produce actionable insights and support strategic decisionmaking.
Troubleshoot database issues and provide timely solutions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION **IMPORTANT NOTES TO ALL CANDIDATES**
Please note: If you are called for an interview you will be required to bring to your interview copies of original documentation such as:
A document that establishes identity for employment eligibility such as: A Valid U.S. Passport Permanent Resident Card/Green Card or Drivers license.
Proof of Education according to the education requirements of the civil service title.
Current Resume
Proof of Address/NYC Residency dated within the last 60 days such as: Recent Utility Bill (i.e. telephone Cable Mobile Phone)

Additional documentation may be required to evaluate your qualification as outlined in this postings Minimum Qualification Requirements section. Examples of additional documentation may be but not limited to college transcript experience verification or professional trade licenses.

If after your interview you are the selected candidate you will be contacted to schedule an onboarding appointment. By the time of this appointment you will be asked to produce the originals of the above documents along with your original Social Security card.

FINAL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL

TO APPLY
Apply online with a cover letter to In the Job ID search bar enter job ID number.

We appreciate the interest and thank all applicants who apply but only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.

The NYC Health Department is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and culturally responsive workforce. We strongly encourage people of color people with disabilities veterans women and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender and gender nonconforming persons to apply.

All applicants will be considered without regard to actual or perceived race color national origin religion sexual orientation marital or parental status disability sex gender identity or expression age prior record of arrest; or any other basis prohibited by law.

Qualifications :

(1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by twentyfour (24) semester credits in computer science or a related computer field and two (2) years of satisfactory fulltime 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
(2) A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six (6) years of fulltime satisfactory software experience as described in 1 above including one year in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project; or
(3) A satisfactory combination of education and experience that is 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 sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college is equated to one year of experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related computer field may be substituted for one year of the required experience in (1) or (2) above. However all candidates must have a four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent plus at least one (1) year of satisfactory fulltime software experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project.
NOTE: In order to have your experience accepted as Project Leader or Major Contributor experience you must explain in detail how your experience qualifies you as a project leader or as a major contributor. Experience in computer operations technical support quality assurance (QA) hardware installation help desk or as an end user will not be accepted for meeting the minimum qualification
requirements.
Special Note
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level IV in addition to the Qualification Requirements stated above individuals must have one year of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration database management systems operating systems data communications systems capacity planning and/or online applications programming.

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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime