Vacancies in ESA’s IT Department: opportunities now closed

We are looking for ambitious and motivated IT experts to join our teams in the effort to support our endeavours in the peaceful exploration of space. If you are a professional in one of the following IT specialisations: security engineering, information systems, application engineering, IT architecture, project management, ESA could be your next employer! 

We currently have two vacancies open: 

IT Finance Application Portfolio Manager 

Located in Frascati, Italy, you will be responsible for efficiently and properly managing and delivering IT solutions related to the Agency's finance processes.

You will have solid work experience with SAP finance solutions, cost accounting, budgeting and planning processes. 

Major upcoming projects in relation to SAP S4Hana and complex integration of our Procure to Pay processes will expose best use of FIORI, Personas and other new technologies. The competence centre for the Finance portfolio will manage multiple skills and partners to deliver integrated solutions and continuous improvements. 

Click here for more information and to apply. 

IT Service Manager 

Located in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, you will be responsible for the supervision and coordination of centralised operation activities, integrating services from multiple suppliers and vendors into a single coherent end-to-end IT service, dedicated to establishing and maintaining workplace capabilities and related back-end infrastructure and end-user services.

You will have solid, documented certification and experience in managing IT corporate services for network printers, personal computing and mobile platforms, in particular based on Mac OS/iOS, with proven experience in SW/OS packaging, machine build image and scripting for automation of workplace solutions. 

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About ESA’s IT Department

The ESA IT Department is at the forefront of the digital revolution that is taking place in the Agency. The ambition of the Agency is to be able to digitally map the Earth and universe as well as the organisation. This requires a change in culture, the right tools and specialised capabilities. The IT Department is overhauling all its services to achieve these goals and the Agency is supporting it by providing it with its trust and the authority to implement these changes. 

It is not only about introducing new collaboration tools or automating processes, but also about supporting change in our space business. 

• We are delivering new tools to improve the capabilities to share in real time and to collaborate remotely, even for those activities that were previously only performed with physical proximity
• We are streamlining our underlying platforms to provide a faster response to the organisation’s needs and higher resilience to adverse conditions
• We are overhauling our capabilities and processes to ensure we can develop and maintain applications that support our workforce in their daily job. 

We are not doing this alone; we are partnering with the wider communities of our IT colleagues around the Agency to leverage our combined strengths and to better understand how we can contribute to address the challenges that the organisation is facing. 

The ESA IT Department’s mission 

Our IT Department operates across all ESA establishments connecting sites and people around the world, providing them with a digital workplace, computing power, storage, cloud services and applications in order to perform their job in a secure way wherever they are working from.

Our mission is to: 

• Enable and accelerate the digital transformation of ESA, by providing its users with modern integrated collaboration suites and integrated communication systems and applications to ensure a productive modern, location-independent working environment. 
• Provide and operate the most flexible and performing ESA corporate ICT infrastructure, leveraging the most effective technologies on the market to support development teams in delivering scalable and reliable software systems, bridging the gap between infrastructure, app development and security through DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code, combined with multi-cloud. 
• Streamline, automate and digitalize our corporate processes to ensure that our staff can make the best decisions, with accurate and relevant data and information, leveraging legacy or modern ERP systems and using our capabilities to support other core processes in the Agency. 
• Protect the Agency’s information assets, infrastructure and applications by relying on and continuously evolving our IT security infrastructure, pro-active and reactive security services and processes, supported by a growing team of security engineers, cybersecurity experts and analysts in collaboration with the ESA Security Office, national and international CERTs/CSIRTs.