Technology & Engineer Fellow, Agile & App Development

Position at MTA Headquarters

Department: MTAHQ - IT

Location: 144-41 94th Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11435

Position Title: Technology & Engineer Fellow,Agile & App Development

Hourly Rate: $21.00 (Undergraduate)

OVERVIEW OF DEPARTMENT:

The MTA Information Technology (IT) department's mission is to deliver innovative and responsive solutions that enable safe, effective, and efficient transportation operations which strategically align with the overarching corporate MTA goals. IT will partner with all MTA business units to understand the overall information needs of the transportation agencies and the communities they serve to optimize the adoption and use of information technology. Agile Center of Excellence (COE) provides consultancy services to MTA IT and other MTA business agencies and departments.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The Tech & Engineering Fellow will be working with team members of MTA IT Center of Excellence (CoE)/Agile & App Development group.
• Fellow will learn and support the development and testing of various dashboards, reports and assessment tools, using MS Power BI, Dynamics 365 or Power Apps.
• Fellow will be coached for the MTA IT Scaled Agile Framework.
• The Fellow will be provided with Microsoft Excel templates that are used for collecting/preparing various agile teams' (Scrum and Kanban) metrics. T
• Fellow will work with other team members to study the metric templates and progressively develop apps to automate the generations of those metrics.
• The fellow will leverage MTA IT's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool, Jira, for recording, collaborating and managing of his/her development work.
• Fellow will also help develop and test various dashboards for product teams.
• Support Center of Excellence team in providing consultancy services to MTA IT and other MTA business agencies and departments

PROJECTS:

Both the Transportations Products and Corporate Products groups currently collect various team metrics using a manual process. The MTA IT Center of Excellence (CoE) is in the process of developing tools to automate the metrics generation process, and the Tech & Engineering Fellow will be a participant in the endeavor. The automated metrics generations will help both product groups to speed up the metrics generation process. This will help both groups to analyze the data on a regular basis for making improvements.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is a must.
• The candidate should possess organizational, analytical and communication skills.
• The candidate should be able to work well under pressure and prioritize tasks effectively.
• The candidate should have a keen eye for detail and be able to work independently while being an active team player.

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

• Matriculated in an undergraduate program in good standing with at least 2.5 GPA AND/OR matriculated in a graduate program in good standing with at least 2.8 GPA
• Major(s) Preferred: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of application. Students' transcript must be submitted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

MTA and its subsidiary and affiliated agencies are Equal Opportunity Employers, including with respect to veteran status and individuals with disabilities. The MTA encourages qualified applicants from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and abilities, including military service members, to apply.