Senior IT Architect Service Architecture & Transformation (mfd)

Every ESA spacecraft is flown from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt. Those missions depend on the Mission Operations IT services (MOI-IT and OCC) and those services are continually evolving.

Terma delivers the Architecture and Transformation Support service to ESOC for which we are looking for a Senior IT Architect to own the architecture transformation and planning deliverables for these services working alongside our technology-innovation and service-strategy teams.

The position will include tasks such as:

• Produce and maintain the MOI-IT and OCC architecture (service perspectives logical sub-systems supplier dependencies network zones and connectivity) and issue a formal release twice a year. Keep it consistent with the service catalogue and show what is being transformed or decommissioned.
• Maintain the Transformation Framework (objectives roles workflows KPIs) and the five-year Transformation Roadmap analysing the gap between the current and the target architecture and setting out the technical and budget alternatives.
• Turn the roadmap into an annual Short-Term Plan covering grouped activities deliverables deadlines and budget and track its execution
• Interview service owners technical teams user representatives and other service providers to document existing systems dependencies and operational requirements.
• Evaluate solution options against total cost of ownership reliability maintainability security and vendor dependency using capacity problem and risk data from operations as both drivers and constraints.
• Report monthly on plan progress risks and corrective actions and quarterly on the effectiveness of the roadmap.
• Present deliverables to the ESA-appointed Service Architect the OPS boards and working groups and the reviewers. Prepare chair and minute these meetings and close all review feedback before release.
• Agree proof-of-concept success criteria with the technology-innovation team (component failure resilience performance monitoring) and carry the results back into the roadmap.

Your profile

• Hands-on experience producing IT infrastructure architectures and transformation roadmaps.
• Good technical understanding of networking virtualisation compute and storage together with a working knowledge of monitoring and capacity planning in mission-critical environments.
• Experience assessing component failure resilience in systems that cannot go down.
• The ability to weigh solution options on total cost of ownership reliability maintainability security and vendor dependency and to present the trade-offs to budget holders.
• Confidence in front of governance boards suppliers service owners and technical teams.
• A track record of planning deliverables meeting deadlines and closing review feedback.

Working Location

You will be based at Termas office in Darmstadt Germany with occasional on-site presence at ESOC.

What can Terma offer

At Terma we consider skilled employees enthusiasm and job satisfaction as the very foundation of our success and as a prerequisite for the development of the best-in-class solutions that Terma provides. We lead the way in applying new technology offering a wide range of growth opportunities for each individual and emphasizing mutual respect across the board in our workplace.

Terma offers you a pleasant working environment at the customer site where you will be able to take on challenging tasks and responsibilities in a highly professional company.

• Great opportunities for training and personal development
• Challenges in advanced technical environment
• International and cosmopolitan working atmosphere
• An employment contract with an attractive package with extra-legal benefits
• Highly competitive salary

Additional information

For further information please contact Mr. Eduardo Diaz Reyes by telephone or by email

To ensure that your application will reach us and is properly processed please apply through the link below with an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae preferably in an Europass format and ideally a Cover Letter.

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