Database Architect

Package Description

• Excellent Salary 
• Corporate Benefits Package 
• Chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
• Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

Serco is a partner of choice to the European Institutions and other International Organisations. For the past 30 years, we have been providing European and International Organisations a wide range of services including ICT services in support, infrastructure, operations and development as well as managing different contact centres for the key European Institutions, agencies and organisations, in Brussels and across Europe.

We are hiring Database Architect for European Commission DG Informatics (DIGIT TM) in Brussels and various locations around Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation and reporting.
• Assist in the enforcement of project deadlines, schedules, and methodologies.
• Assist with deployment and configuration of the system.
• Contribute and review the creation and maintenance of Enterprise Data Warehouses and complex Business Intelligence Solutions (Data Lakes/Data Warehouses).
• Contribute to and review best practices for standard naming conventions and coding practices to ensure consistency of data models and databases.
• Contribute to and review data, security, testing and technical artefacts. 
• Contribute to and review the project deliverables (project progress reports and project management plans (test plan, quality, etc.)) 
• Contribute to and review the risk management activities and deliverables. 
• Database design and implementation.
• Integration with other databases.
• Participate in review, progress, coordination, management and technical meetings with other project teams’ members.
• Participation in meetings with the project teams. 
• Provide guidance for the Project Support Officers in assisting the Project’s team from the inception stages of the projects up until the deployment of the solutions. Providing technical or business expertise and contributing to the overall project effort by supporting in any way necessary.
• Provision of expert advice and assistance, technology watch, evaluation studies, architectural considerations, applicable standards, solution patterns and best practices in a specific area of ICT infrastructure technology such as Big Data, Artificial Intelligence.
• Provision of technical evaluations and audit reports of databases 

Skills

• A bachelor’s level or 3 years of higher education
• Experience with dealing with stakeholders and business representatives.
• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Analysis and problem-solving skills • Capability to write clear and structured technical documents
• Ability to participate in technical meetings and good communication skills
• Ability to analyse and draft complex documents.
• Ability to apply high quality standards. 
• Ability to follow and interpret Internal procedures and standards.
• Autonomous and rapid self-starting capability.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills.
• Strong team spirit and ability to work in a team.
• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team;
• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings;
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects;
• Excellent Team Player 
• Ability to understand, speak and write in French (B1/B2) will be an advantage;
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in HERA.02 contain personal and confidential data

Skills Extension

• Experience of Agile methodology of projects.
• Experience of data modelling and database design techniques and tools (e.g. SQL Developer Data Modeler, Hackolade, NoSQL Workbench, …).
• Experience of NoSQL database management systems (e.g. Dynamo DB, MongoDB, Cassandra). 
• Experience of relational database management systems (e.g. Oracle).
• Experience of SQL and query optimisation.
• Experience of working on large and complex IT projects.
• Experience with Database Troubleshooting and Debugging for diagnosing and resolving database issues. 
• Excellent knowledge of business intelligence reporting tools.
• Excellent knowledge of data warehouse design & architecture.
• Excellent knowledge of ETL tools.
• Excellent knowledge of modelling tools.
• Excellent knowledge of online analytical data processing (OLAP) and data mining tools.
• Excellent knowledge of relational database systems applied to data warehouse. 
• Excellent knowledge of SQL.
• Good knowledge of cloud-based business intelligence design.
• Good knowledge of data lake/data warehouse design and architecture.
• Knowledge of near real time data warehousing and/or change data capture technologies.
• Knowledge of non-relational database technologies.
• Knowledge of semantic interoperability