Technology Engineer – Principal (1044) - Applications Specialty - Citywide (C00098) — San Francisco, CA

Under general direction, provides direct ongoing supervision to other Technology Engineers and/or provides technical leadership and direction and assumes technical responsibility for completion of major projects, or serves as the top technical authority for one or more related specialties. Performs and reviews complex work involving analysis, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting and enhancement of systems or platforms. Serves as the lead technical architect for systems or platforms.

The 1044 Principal Technology Engineer is the highest level in the Engineer series and may be assigned to function as a supervisor, expert or project leader. When assigned as a supervisor, develops, coordinates and executes policies, methods and procedures, and supervises personal; when assigned as an expert, performs work requiring a very high level of technical knowledge of a specific area or ability to integrate at a high level the knowledge of several areas (this is not considered to be a part of the normal career path for employees in this series; rather it is reserved for those employees with a mastery of specific technologies or a particular expertise); when assigned as a project leader, manages and provides technical leadership of projects involving large-scale, complex and highly analytical tasks. Work is performed within a broad framework of general policy and requires creativity and resourcefulness to accomplish goals and objectives, and in applying concepts, plans and strategies which may deviate from traditional methods and practices.

Supervision Exercised:

May supervise subordinate Engineers staff and technical staff in the assigned work unit; or as a Project leader, coordinate a team of workers within the assigned work unit or jointly with other unites. May be expected to provide consultation and guidance to Technology professionals and non-Technology professionals.

Essential Duties:

• Conceptualizes the need for and plans and ensures maintenance, design, implementations and enhancement of platform services, APIs, integration services, commercial software packages, internally development applications, and web services.
• Conceptualizes designs and oversees the customization of new features to platform services, APIs, integration services, commercial software packages, internally developed applications and system integrations according to end user requests.
• Oversees the day-to-day operations of various platform services and applications.
• Oversees the development of new platform capabilities, API services, and applications based on customer's requirements and specifications.
• Designs and writes test plans and ensures performance of applications, designs and leads implementation of fixes for problems as they arise, and leads product launches.
• Provides leadership for technical support and leads the troubleshooting of problems related to platform services and applications.
• Leads and guides writing of technical documentation and develops and implements best practices regarding version control and testing.
• Oversees performance of software upgrades and keeps track of software licensing.
• Manages vender relationships including scoping of platform and application services and review of deliverables.

Education

Experience

Five (5) years of experience analyzing, installing, configuring, enhancing, and/or maintaining the components of a system or platform.

Substitution:

Positions with the Port

Selection Procedures

Preliminary Questionnaire:

Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam (Weight: 100%):

Candidates self-certifying meeting the Minimum Qualifications will be invited to participate in the online Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam. Candidates will be sent a web link via email that will allow them to take the online Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam that is designed to measure basic analytical and technical abilities associated with the target job, which may include but not be limited to:

• Ability to develop web apps using programming tools (e.g., Drupal)
• Ability to troubleshoot problems
• Analytical thinking
• Knowledge of the functions of the hardware & software components that comprise application systems
• Knowledge of analysis and evaluation techniques to design, implement & troubleshoot systems
• Knowledge of standard database platforms (e.g., SQL)
• Ability to identify complex problems and implement solutions with minimal disruption

Candidates’ scores on the Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam may also be applied to other announcements involving other job titles, when directed by the Human Resources Director.

Score Banking: Scores attained on the Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam will be 'banked' for three years, starting from the date of the examination. This means that, during this three-year time period, candidates need not take this test again. Rather, if another announcement you applied to and are deemed qualified for requires the Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam and is held within one year of your Tech Engineer – Applications Core Exam date your score will be automatically applied to that announcement. However, after one year, a candidate has the option to either (a) apply his/her test score to the other announcement or (b) re-take the test. Re-testing is permitted no sooner than one year from the date of the test and only in association with a candidate’s eligibility for another announcement to which the candidate has applied and is deemed qualified. If a candidate opts to re-test, the re-test score becomes the candidate’s official score since it is the most recent.

If a significant modification is made to this exam in the future, the application of “banked” scores may no longer be appropriate. In such a rare circumstance, candidates with “banked” scores would be required to re-take the exam sooner than the three-year perio