General Information
Type of contract
Fixed-term contract which may be converted into a permanent contract after three years subject to individual performance and organisational needs
Who can apply?
EU nationals
Salary
E/F (bracket 1 - step 1) full time monthly net salary: €4,869 plus benefits, for further information see
what we offer.
Role specialisation
Business Analysis
Working time
Full time
Place of work
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Closing date
07.01.2021
Your team
You will be part of the Prudential Domain Services Division in the Directorate General Information Systems. Our Division has 60 staff responsible for implementing, managing and supporting applications for the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). These applications include the Supervisory Banking (SUBA) data system, which collects and disseminates supervisory data, and the IMAS Data Reporting and Analytics (IDRA) system, whose data warehouse solution provides advanced reporting and analytics capabilities for all supervisory exercises.
The SSM is the system of banking supervision in Europe. It comprises the ECB and the national supervisory authorities of the participating countries.
In your role as an IT Application Development Specialist, you will be part of a team of 16 members of staff responsible for managing and supporting the SUBA application. You will work closely and collaboratively with developers, technical teams at the ECB (such as the infrastructure team) and customers within ECB Banking Supervision.
The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply, irrespective of your gender, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability or other characteristics.
Your role
As an IT Application Development Specialist you will:
- manage, package and deploy Java/Tomcat applications running on Windows;
- establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins;
- contribute to the design of application architecture and infrastructure;
- coordinate patch and vulnerability management;
- manage the creation, handling and follow-up of changes, requests and incidents in ITSM, following ITIL standards.
The position offers you excellent opportunities to work with a wide range of modern tools for developing and maintaining software applications, and to gain insights into the reporting frameworks of the SSM while working in an agile environment. You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:
- a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or another relevant field (click here for details on degree equivalences);
- in addition to the above, a minimum of two and ideally three or more years’ experience in the development, implementation, quality assurance, stable operations and maintenance of IT applications;
- experience of Tomcat, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, Nexus, PowerShell, JIRA, HP ALM, DevOps (any platform), PKI;
- professional experience in ITSM processes in a large corporation, ideally using HP IT Service Manager suite (ITIL, change management and release management);
- a sound understanding of networking, including setting up firewalls, troubleshooting connectivity issues, etc. (Cisco certification or similar);
- experience of agile project execution (Scrum, Kanban or similar):
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Desired:
- experience with Kubernetes/Docker and GitLab pipelines;
- database management, including deployment of database code (e.g. SQL and/or Liquibase);
- experience with supervisory reporting frameworks (XBRL or similar).
You engage collaboratively with others. You pursue team goals and learn willingly from other people’s diverse perspectives. You signal any need for change by explaining it and proposing alternative solutions. You analyse complex information effectively and can evaluate different views to arrive at solutions. You know and anticipate stakeholder needs.
You are motivated to be part of our team and to use your skills and competencies to achieve the objectives of this position. You are aware of your strengths and areas for development and know what motivates you to perform at your highest level.
Working modalities
To enable the Division to maintain its business continuity capability, you will occasionally be expected to perform work during non-standard working hours and work at the ECB’s standby sites.
Further information
For additional information on this specific vacancy, you can speak to the Team Lead, Paul McKenna, on +49 (0)69 1344 9725 on Tuesday 22 December between 11.30 and 12.30.
Application and selection process
For further information on how to join us,
read more.
The recruitment process for this position will include a written exercise and interviews.
