Senior Specialist – Information Architect (AD8)

Job listing: Senior Specialist – Information Architect (AD8), within the ICT Business

Area of Europol, Europol/2015/TA/AD8/201

Protecting Europe

Europol is the European law enforcement agency that supports law enforcement authorities in Europe and throughout the world in preventing and combating serious international crime and terrorism. We are contributing to a safer Europe through exchange and analysis of criminal intelligence. The ICT Business Area has the mission of providing advanced high-security information management and communication capabilities that enable the mission of Europol against serious, organised and cyber crime.

We are looking for an Information Architect:

- to take up the challenge of collaborating with the business and ICT stakeholders to craft and evolve the Information Architecture domain at Europol, significantly helping to make a step forward in supporting business needs with a suitable Solution Architecture.

- with expertise in architecture definition and implementation of highly complex, large scale solutions that comply with security and data protection rules in a rapidly changing, multi-technology environment.

- able to closely cooperate with a team of enterprise architects reporting to the Head of ICT to bring his expertise, skills and market’s best practices to our set of capabilities.

The successful applicant will have to carry out the following main duties:

• Translate Europol information management needs into information usage and data management patterns;
• Develop and maintain the Europol enterprise information architecture for core business and administrative systems;
• Establish and evolve the Integrated Data Management concepts and architecture;
• Ensure that the information architecture is compliant with ICT Security, Personal Data Protection standards and specific Europol operational data processing regimes;
• Assess business cases, project proposals, and project deliverables, to determine the impact on, and compliance with the overall information architecture;
• Support the application and infrastructure Solution Architects in evaluating and selecting the technical patterns, mechanisms and product types that are required to implement the target information architecture;
• Cooperate with ICT solutions and infrastructure engineering teams in areas directly related to enterprise information architecture.

Your profile:

We are looking for candidates from all EU Member States, who have:

• Significant experience in Information Architecture processes, methods and standards;
• Professional experience in information usage, governance, management, modeling, standardization and interoperability;
• Experience in developing C-level reports and briefs related to Information Architecture principles, decisions, requirements and solutions
• Professional experience in analyzing business services and processes as well as in the development of definitions and ontologies
• Experience with standard frameworks and standards (Open Group, Archimate, etc.)

Monthly salary: approx. EUR 5,194.88 (net without allowance) and approx. EUR 7,321.73 (net with allowances – if applicable)

In addition, if applicable, allowances such as expatriation allowance, household allowance, dependent child allowance and education may be granted. Europol also offers a comprehensive welfare package. For a full description of the tasks and responsibilities, of the eligibility criteria and of the selection criteria (professional experience, professional knowledge, technical and social skills and competencies) and of the conditions of employment, please refer to the Vacancy Notice Ref. No. Europol/2015/TA/AD8/201 on Europol’s website.

How to apply

Please refer to the EUROPOL RECRUITMENT GUIDELINES available on Europol’s website www.europol.europa.eu for further details on the application process and the selection procedure. You can apply until 30 December 2015.

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