Advanced Software Engineer

Description

Position at MTA Headquarters

JOB TITLE:

Advanced Software Engineer

SALARY RANGE:

$140,828 - $166,223

DEPT/DIV:

Information Technology

SUPERVISOR:

Senior Director - Product Development - NonRail Agencies

LOCATION:

2 Broadway, New York, NY 10004

HOURS OF WORK:

9:00 am - 5:30 pm (7.5 hours/day) or as required

This position is eligible for teleworking. New hires are eligible to apply 30 days after their effective date of hire.

About Us

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America's largest transportation network, serving a population of 15.3 million people across a 5,000-square-mile travel area surrounding New York City, Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut. The MTA network comprises the nation's largest bus fleet and more subway and commuter rail cars than all other U.S. transit systems combined. MTA strives to provide a safe and reliable commute, excellent customer service, and rewarding opportunities.

The MTA transportation network has a very large system and infrastructure for financial, business, automated train, transportation, power, and physical security. MTA IT Department is centrally responsible for providing a full range of Information and Operational Technology services to the MTA agencies and administrative units through its operating and support units. Services are provided on a 7/24/365 basis in support of the MTA organization and its ridership.

MTA IT's Product Development group is empowered, multi-functional teams focused on the end-to-end management of development products from strategy to delivery. Using innovative processes and tools, the teams are responsible for developing and maintaining highly effective, secure, and innovative transportation, operational and back-end information systems to support MTA goals and priorities.

Summary

Leads requirements management, software engineering, system testing, and acceptance testing activities across all stages and iterations for complex software development and integration initiatives. Assists with the organization's selection, adaptation, and adoption of new models, methods, and tools. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems, or service design. May own high-value services and/or products.

Critical Skills:

• Strong full-stack development experience using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, REST APIs, SQL, and modern web frameworks.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing Generative AI solutions using LLMs, Azure OpenAI, RAG, embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering.
• Experience building AI agents and agentic workflows, including tool/function calling, orchestration, and multi-agent architectures.
• Experience with Azure AI services, including Azure AI Search, Document Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry, and conversational AI.
• Experience developing data-driven solutions from data exploration and preprocessing through model training, validation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

Leads requirements management, software engineering, system testing, and acceptance testing activities across all stages and iterations for complex software development and integration initiatives. Assists with the organization's selection, adaptation, and adoption of new models, methods, and tools. Collaborates across parties involved in product, systems, or service design.

May own high-value services and/or products. Leads the definition, documentation, and successful completion of large projects within business objectives and resource constraints, ensuring adherence to agreed enterprise architectures, and the application of effective change- release-, risk, and quality-management processes.

Drafts and maintains software support processes and documentation. Prioritizes and diagnoses incidents, investigates and resolves complex issues, leads root cause analysis, and proposes corrective actions. Conducts application licensing, security, backup, and disaster recovery verification initiatives.

Develops system and acceptance testing criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, features, business processes, and business rules. Designs, specifies, and executes test cases and scenarios.

Plans and leads user experience design activities for large programs and products, providing expert advice to ensure that usability, accessibility, and visual design requirements are satisfied.

Develops, maintains, and applies tools and documentation to track, log, and maintain accurate and complete system information. Audits complex software systems for adherence to configuration standards.

Plans, organizes, conducts, and oversees assigned quality and safety assurance assessments involving complex