Senior Enterprise Data & Solutions Architect

Package Description

• Competitive Salary 
• Corporate Benefits Package 
• Chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

Serco is the preferred partner for European Institutions and International Organisations, offering ICT services and Contact Centre management across Europe. Our expertise extends from Information System support to consultancy under the government framework, supporting key entities such as the European Commission and Executive Agencies. As a leader in Service Integration and Management, we ensure seamless delivery of services across various platforms, embodying our commitment to excellence in every aspect of our work.

We are hiring a Senior Enterprise Data & Solutions Architect for the European Commission in Brussels and various locations around Europe.

Main Responsibilities

• Create business and technical architecture models that reflect the organization’s strategies within the matters covered by the Central Monitoring and Reporting (CMR) component of EESSI
• Develop the IT solution following the directions of the Project Manager and the guidance of the Business Analysts
• Provide guidance to other developers in the team and to the Testers
• Provide overall support to the CMR solution developed in the context of EESSI
• Participate in the preparation and performance of events aimed at providing information to stakeholders internal and external to the Commission
• Integrate the project and program strategies and ensure alignment with business strategies and drivers, and management priorities
• Report to the hierarchy of the IT unit and participate in the reporting to the Business unit
• Identify ways to reduce costs in IT and business leadership
• Evaluate systems for discrepancies or vulnerabilities
• Conduct research to find ways to improve operations
• Provide business architecture and systems processing guidance2
• Create and implement a business vision and participate in the creation of a multi-year plan
• Implement the applications based on the architecture

Successful Candidate

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Master's Degree or higher 

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Self-motivated and autonomous, with ability to manage and follow up on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Strong analytical skills, ability to approach problems from multiple angles and find creative solutions
• Proven capacity to analyse complex information, to consider options in a clear and structured way, to propose and implement recommendations and to make sound decisions
• Ability to work effectively both with team members and with customers
• Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines, to make timely decisions, to reprioritize tasks responding to changes in a rapidly evolving work environment
• Creation and maintenance of Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW) and complex Business Intelligence Solutions (Data Lakes / Data Lakehouses).
• Creation and maintenance of data pipelines and foundational datasets to support analytics, modelling, experimentation, and product/business needs
• Design and build database architectures with massive and complex data, balancing ergonomic benefits with computational load and cost
• Close collaboration with data science, engineering, and devsecops teams to improve the coverage, accuracy, and reliability of instrumentation and monitoring
• Creation of scalable dashboards and reports, in particular using POWER BI, to support business objectives and enable data-driven decision making
• Designing architectures mostly on the cloud, in particular on Azure, but potentially also on premises (whether hosting or cloud on-premises) or combination of both (hybrid)
• Designing ETL processes, using tools in accordance with the corporate catalog and in particular Microsoft Synapse.
• Design and development of reporting applications
• Logical and Physical DB design
• DB performance analysis, in collaboration with our DevSecOps team
• Design of data quality and performance monitoring processes
• Writing technical documentation, such as architecture overview and technical specifications
• Assistance to DevSecOps team with the deployment and configuration of the system.
• Participation in meetings with other project teams, including the stakeholders in the business units
• Gathering business requirements

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

1.  Excellent knowledge of designing ETL / data pipelines using Microsoft Synapse. Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with similar products of the market. A Certification on Microsoft Synapse, for example Microsoft Azure Date Engineer Associate would be considered an asset.
2.  Excellent knowledge of data warehouse / data lake and data lakehouse design
3.  Excellent knowledge of relational database systems applied to data warehouse
4.  Strong knowledge of non-relational database technologies, in particular, specific knowledge of vector database used to store embeddings in the context of AI-based solutions (e.g. RAG) is considered an asset.
5. Excellent knowledge of access rights management in datawarehouse/data lake. In particular, segregation of access at row level based on user roles.
6. Excellent knowledge of SQL
7. Very good knowledge of Python and Apache Spark. Knowledge of R would be considered an asset.
8.  Excellent knowledge of business intelligence reporting tools. Specific knowledge of Microsoft Power BI would be considered an asset.
9. Good knowledge of cloud-based design. Knowledge of Microsoft Azure would be considered an asset.
10. Excellent knowledge of online analytical data processing (OLAP) and data mining tools.
11. Hands-on experience in designing and developing software components involved in the exchanges performed within the EESSI system4
12. Knowledge of the Social Security business context and of the exchanges between Social Security Institutions supported by the EESSI system
13. At least 13 years of specific expertise in Java 
14. At least 10 years of specific expertise in J2EE
15. At least 8 years of specific expertise in REST
16. At least 10 years of specific expertise in SPRING 
17. At least 7 years of specific expertise in Apache Maven 
18. At least 7 years of specific expertise in AS4 communication protocol 
19. At least 10 years of specific expertise in SCRUM 
20. At least 10 years of specific expertise in UML 
21. At least 10 years of specific expertise in XML 
22. At least 7 years of specific expertise in XSD 
23. At least 2 years of specific expertise in HTML 
24. At least 10 years of specific expertise in PostgreSQL
25. At least 3 years of specific expertise in Docker 

About the Company

Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector. We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Space, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. More information can be found at Serco | Europe

Why should you join Serco ?

• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
• Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.

We are diverse and inclusive organisation

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to supporting the needs of all our colleagues. It’s a mix of people from different backgrounds, experiences and opinion that keeps our culture strong and vibrant.

We believe in equity so we strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their abilities in an interview. We also welcome a conversation about any adjustments that would make the interview process more accessible for you. Wherever possible we are open to discussions around flexible working and we operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas.

In the UK we are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader in the government’s scheme and hold the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard; in Belgium we are partner of Diversicom and member of Charter der Vielfalt in Germany.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to The Serco Europe Recruitment Team

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