Package Description
Full details on application
Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).
The position can be offered as a freelance contract of 11 months with possible extension for a further 7 months.
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.
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 100,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.
Main Responsibilities
- Review business requirements and provide technical assessment;
- Ensure functional and non-functional requirements such as security and performance are met by the system’s architecture and liaise with the stakeholders where necessary;
- Co-operate with data architects on the feasibility of logical and physical data models;
- Design, communicate and document solution architecture, including as-is/to-be system designs, development and deployment views, satisfying functional and non-functional requirements and complying with our customer’s Enterprise Architecture standards;
- Lead the decision making process for the necessary solution architecture decisions and ensure they are justified and documented;
- Co-operate with project manager/change manager and define and estimate work ;
- Actively participate in software implementation phase according to defined requirements, including user interface design and application security aspects, in compliance with agreed project/release planning;
- Ensure the delivery of good quality software product by:
- Confirming the implementation of unit and integration testing of the system’s key functional requirement by the development team;
- Leading architecture and code reviews and addressing outcomes of the reviews;
Successful Candidate
With Higher Studies: The ideal candidate should have 8 years of experience directly related to this position.
Without Higher Studies: The ideal candidate should have 12 years of experience, 8 years of which should be directly related to this position.
Domain Expertise:
- IT Development, specifically Java, J2EE, Oracle Databases including 2 years of professional experience in Adobe Flex and Action script.
Professional qualifications:
- A third level qualification in Computer Science or other areas relevant to the role is mandatory.
- Relevant professional qualifications such as ISTQB/ISEB, TOGAF, Oracle/Java Architect, IBM Professional Certification, CBIP/ORACLE for Data Warehouse & BI domain or other Solution Architecture Certification are desirable.
Role specific experience:
- Design, integration and implementation experience in the following domains:
- Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Hibernate, BlazeDS
- Adobe Flex, Action script
- XML, JSON, XSLT, XSL.
- SOA and RESTful interfaces
- Oracle
- Desirable:
- AngularJs
- PL/SQL
- Ability to use the software architecture tools such as Sybase Power Design, Enterprise Architect, using ArchiMate and UML Notations.
- Extensive working experience in delivering solutions following:
- Object oriented analysis and design methodologies;
- Service Oriented Architecture principles;
- Iterative or Agile development methodologies.
- Capacity to assist with the evaluation and testing of products delivered by external system suppliers to ensure that they conform to requirements and technical standards.
- Communication abilities:
- Able to liaise with different stakeholders (e.g. business users, management and development teams) to understand requirements and communicate key technical issues appropriate for the audience.
- Liaise with release managers, operations and support teams, providing the necessary documentation support and training to transition the system to production;
- Leadership capabilities:
- Demonstrable leadership capabilities are mandatory;
- Experience in coaching developers in new technologies;
- Experience in managing interactions between the development team and other stakeholders (system administrators / technical operators, testers, support teams, analysts, management, business, etc.).
- business users, management and development teams) to understand requirements and communicate key technical issues appropriate for the audience.
- Liaise with release managers, operations and support teams, providing the necessary documentation support and training to transition the system to production.
Important:
Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law. Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process. Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization.
For positions located within the Darmstadt Support Office please note that only applicants with no family affiliation within the Company will be considered.
Data Protection:
When creating a profile on the Serco Career Centre you agreed to the Data Protection policy, a copy is available upon request. You may submit a written request revoking your consent to this agreement at any time.
About the Company
Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 100,000 employees worldwide.