RT-C/TEC-PI/00454 IT Systems Architect

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

Role Responsibility

For our activities in the European Space Agency (ESTEC site), we are currently looking for an IT Systems Architect, to support the Infrastructure Management Section.

The Key Person will be in charge of introducing the IT synergies across the
TEC Departments, aligning Knowledge Bases and lnformation Repositories.

Additionally, the Post holder's activities will cover the following:

• Maintain understanding of business issues, operating procedures and priorities, actively seeking opportunities for increased business agility, ensuring all different services are integrated and in line with the Directorate’s IT architecture plan.
• Provide help to formalise requirements and assess impact on security, software licenses and cost, especially where contacts among different services are needed and questions go beyond the current computing service offerings.
• Provide help with system architecture and design:
• Encourage reuse of existing IT services / technologies.
• Favour solutions compatible with existing infrastructure.
• Formalize user stories and requirements.
• Assess impact on security, software licenses, cost, etc.
• Identify required architecture components and/or frameworks. Prioritizes architecture deliverables, and establish short-term, mid-term and long-range architecture plans.
• Maintain a broad knowledge of current industry technologies, methodologies and designs, and their applicability and appropriateness in various solution architectures.
• Analyse technical requirements to determine infrastructure designs, potential issues, and related costs
• Contribute to the selection, prototyping, and implementation of hardware, operating systems, applications, and technical solutions to business problems
• Take the pulse of and keep tabs on the general hardware markets for innovative designs,cost savings and market trends
• Provide technical leadership of activities related to the design, deployment, evolution and operation of the existing technical IT infrastructure and related services
• Evaluate new and emerging technologies through hands-on experimentation, providing an informed point of view and advocacy within the organization.
• Leads the evaluation and comparison of IT technologies, reporting to the management, reporting on alternative scenarios and assessing opportunities related to new and emerging technologies.

Successful Candidate

The Key Person should bring:

Essentials:

• A Master Degree in information technology or a related discipline and over 10 years of progressive professional experience in IT architecture primarily in systems administration. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
• Expertise with Enterprise Storage, backup and recovery technologies required.
• Experience in design, architecting, engineering and administering Storage and Virtualisation technologies.
• Cloud integration experience of virtual platforms.
• Experience in cluster methodologies.
• Expertise with server technologies and deployments in large data centre environments.
• Expert Knowledge of Linux and Unix operation systems (Solaris, AIX and RedHat/SLES).

The following non-technical skills are required:

• Strong leadership qualities and the ability to gain respect across highly technical teams;
• Experience interacting with vendors;
• A keen interest in technology innovation, the ability to collect and understand new information, plus organisational and business sensitivity are required to successfully design, deploy and maintain IT architectures.

Desirable:

The following requirements are considered an asset:

• Experience with HPC (High performance cluster) Methodologies.
• Proven ability to coordinate between various teams in an Aerospace R&D environment.
• Experience with and active participation to IT coordination groups and in coordinating with IT service providers in an environment where shared IT services are largely used by the business units.
• Good understanding of ESA/TEC IT business processes at various levels and the functioning of TEC technical infrastructure would be seen as an asset.

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Important

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For positions located within the Darmstadt Support Office please note that only applicants with no family affiliation within the Company will be considered.

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Package Description

Full details on application.

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).

About the Company

Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 50,000 employees worldwide.

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies - We work alongside EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency, where we are the largest on-site service provider with ca. 300 staff.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 50,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.

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