Package Description
Full details on application
Relocation assistance provided (if applicable).
The position can be offered as 11 month contract 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
- Candidate must have strong problem solving skills, be self-directed and capable of working with minimal supervision.
- Review business requirements, identifying high risk and/or costly requirements;
- 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;
- Analyse candidate architectures in order to design and conduct proof of concepts and prototypes, validating that the proposed solution architecture meets the functional and non-functional requirements using existing components of the customer's reference architecture or, if necessary, introducing new ones;
- 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 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 Technical Architect and define and estimate work packages;
- Actively participate in software implementation phase according to defined requirements, including user interface design and application security aspects, in compliance with agreed project planning;
- Ensure the delivery of good quality software product by:
- Implement and perform unit tests reflecting system specifications;
- Implement and maintain the necessary software development lifecycle artefacts;
- Working experience in using static code analysis software and addressing violations raised by the product;
- Working experience in using defect tracking software and addressing defects;
- Leading and participating in architecture and code reviews and addressing outcomes of the reviews;
- 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.
- Supervisory experience:
- Able to define tasks and assign them to developers according to the nature of the task and the developer’s skills.
- Leadership capabilities:
- Experience in managing interactions between the development team and other stakeholders (system administrators / technical operators, testers, support teams, analysts, management, business, etc.).
- Translate functional specifications into technical design documents and deliver the desired functionality.
- Work closely with business analysts and other developers within the team to translate business processes into a well-designed user interface.
- Suggest best practices and document the development activities.
- Debug and troubleshoot application issues including workflows and portal applications
- Capacity to assist the support team with training the users of the system;
- Assistance with operational support of software produced;
- Knowledge in IT Service Management and/or Risk frameworks, and/or international standards.
Successful Candidate
With Higher Studies: The ideal candidate should have 4 years of experience directly related to this position.
Without Higher Studies: The ideal candidate should have 7 years of experience, 4 years of which should be directly related to this position.
Professional qualifications
- Relevant professional qualifications such as Oracle/Java Architect or other Solution Architecture Certifications are desirable.
Role specific experience
- Design, integration and implementation experience in one or more of the following domains:
- Workflow and Case Management;
- Portal and web content management;
- Document management;
- Java and other programming languages.
- Ability to use the software architecture tools and methodologies as specified in the service request, especially on large and complex projects;
- Extensive working experience in delivering solutions following:
- Object oriented analysis and design methodologies;
- Service Oriented Architecture principles;
- Iterative and Agile (i.e. Kanban, Scrum, other lean techniques) development methodologies.
- Experience in working in an environment with technical teams comprised of testers, analysts and system administrators and solution architects;
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.
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About the Company
Serco Services GmbH, part of the Serco group, A FTSE250, Multi-national Service Provider with over 100,000 employees worldwide