Senior Specialist – Information Architect, Architecture Team, ICT Project

6 dagen geleden

Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Europol Voltijd

Job Summary

The Europol ICT Department is seeking a Senior Specialist – Information Architect to join its Architecture Team. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for devising, delivering, and operating critical technology capabilities and solutions supporting the core mission and support processes of Europol.

Key Responsibilities

  • Apply innovative approaches in information processing and management, such as data virtualisation, federation, data lakes, data mining, and machine learning, to facilitate the development of specific ICT solutions.
  • Offer guidance and peer review throughout the design and implementation of ICT solutions.
  • Establish and implement effective processes and promote a strong culture for data and information governance.
  • Translate Europol-wide information usage and management needs into an information architecture that optimises the efficiency and effectiveness of business services and processes, within the remits of applicable security, compliance, ICT constraints, and requirements.
  • Develop and maintain Europol's information architecture, including ontology and information model and information governance mechanisms for core business and administration.
  • Assess business cases, project proposals, and deliverables, to determine the impact on, and compliance with, Europol's information architecture.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to identify the information needed for adequate execution of business services and processes, and identify new services matching business needs.
  • Engage with business analysts and requirements engineers to translate architecture deliverables into adequate ICT solution requirements.
  • Engage with Solution Architects in evaluating and selecting solution patterns, mechanisms, and product types required to establish and/or evolve Europol's data processing capabilities across data acquisition, extraction, cleansing, reporting, analytics, as an enabler to information extraction and handling.
  • Engage with peers in the Architecture team to capture information and data flows across the solution landscape, as well as supporting the maintenance of capabilities and solutions catalogues.
  • Develop solution blueprint and architecture standards, definition, and communications with fellow architects, including communications and clarifications to engineering teams, as well as business stakeholders.
  • Monitor and/or participate in relevant fora, and actively champion internal adoption of interfaces and standards.
  • Perform any other duties in the area of competence as assigned by line management.

Requirements

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Candidates must be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union and enjoy full rights as a citizen.
  • Candidates must have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws on military service.
  • Candidates must produce appropriate character references as to their suitability for the performance of the duties.
  • Candidates must be physically fit to perform the duties pertaining to the post, as further specified in Article 13 of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union (CEOS).
  • Candidates must produce evidence of a thorough knowledge of one of the languages of the Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another language of the Union to the extent necessary for the performance of the duties.

Professional Experience:

  • Essential:
    • Information Architecture experience, preferable 4-6 years, including experience in the processes and methods applicable to a mature architecture function, architecture definition, specification, communication, and change management, and in providing architecture oversight to ICT projects.
    • Experience in developing information architectures, including business innovation.
    • Experience in architecture modelling, notations, and methods applicable to data and information architecture, with experience preferably in Archimate, BPMN, DEMO, TOGAF.
    • Experience in design of data and information processing systems, covering data acquisition, extraction, cleansing, pipelining, reporting, analytics.
    • Experience in information modelling, including in developing definitions and ontologies, and visualisation of information architecture models.
    • Experience in data and information governance methods and roles, such as DAMA.
    • Experience in developing reports, presentations, and briefings related to Information Architecture outcomes.

Professional Knowledge:

  • Essential:
    • Knowledge of the concepts, methods, techniques, and representative architectural products in the areas of data and information definition and data and information governance.
    • Knowledge of information and data presentation approaches and techniques, at a minimum federation and integration.
    • Knowledge of information and data processing techniques in the area of data lakes, streaming data, machine learning, cognitive systems, or similar.
    • Knowledge of Archimate, TOGAF, and possibly DEMO and BPMN, preferably demonstrated by a certificate.
    • Knowledge of data and information governance methods, roles, techniques, covering data quality, meta/master/reference data management, data integration, data modelling, and ontology development.

General Competencies:

  • Essential:
    • Communicating:
      • Excellent communication skills in English, both orally and in writing.
      • Excellent presentation skills.
      • Ability to draft clear and concise documents on complex matters for various audiences.
    • Analysing & problem solving:
      • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to anticipate potential problems, determine, and implement solutions.
      • Competent user of Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and the internet.
    • Delivering quality and results:
      • High degree of commitment and flexibility.
      • High level of customer and service-orientation.
      • Ability to display initiative and a drive for improvement.
    • Prioritising and organising:
      • Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to plan work load, establish clear priorities, and exercise initiative.
      • Ability to manage projects and familiarity with project management terminology and methodology.
    • Resilience:
      • Excellent ability to work well both independently and in a team.
      • Ability to remain effective under a heavy workload and demonstrate resistance to stress.
    • Living diversity:
      • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with co-workers in an international and multi-disciplinary work environment.
    • Advising:
      • Strong ability to synthesise various data into a coherent and relevant whole, transforming it into a valuable and correct conclusion.
      • Building constructive relationships with clients, adequately identifying and managing their needs and expectations, and giving well-grounded advice.

Additional Conditions:

  • Fulfil the condition stipulated in Article 5 of the Decision of the Executive Director on the Duration of contracts of employment for Temporary Agents, on the start date of the possible contract of employment which may be offered.

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