Junior IT Application Specialist (FAP-BC-ENG-2024-121-GRAE)

Your responsibilities

Are you a Computing Engineer with a passion for working with complex systems and integrating them into robust end-to-end solutions? Are you at ease learning and working with off-the-shelf solutions as well as with writing your own applications? Do you enjoy working in an agile environment and a self-organized team? Then join our team of talented engineers and contribute to application software for CERN's Corporate Information Systems. CERN, take part!

Join our dynamic and innovative team in the Business Computing (BC) Group, specializing in Operations Management tools. The product management driven group is working for clients across the whole Organisation (HR, Finance, Planning, Safety, Security, Purchasing, Logistics, and Accelerator Operations). The types of products under the group's responsibility range from custom-made solutions for a few users to large and widely integrated systems with 15,000+ users. Hence, working for the BC group provides numerous perspectives for being in touch with different technologies and business areas.

You will specifically join the Supply Chain, Logistics and Jobs (SLJ) product group. In this group, you will join a self-organised agile product team delivering solutions for the Supply Chain management and Logistics services at CERN using a mix of in-house developed applications and commercial tools that integrate with each other.

More specifically, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and configure computing services, applications, or shared platforms tailored to our business partners' needs;
• Define and implement effective long-term maintainable integrations between different computing systems; 
• Prepare, document, automate and execute thorough testing of the IT solutions supporting our business partners processes; 
• Participate in maintenance activities to ensure the stability and reliability of our tools; 
• Provide third-line support to end users; 
• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives and knowledge-sharing activities to enhance team performance and solution quality, actively contributing to achieving team objectives and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) set by the Product Manager;
• Work in close collaboration with team members, internal stakeholders/users and external partners/suppliers to drive successful project outcomes and maintain high standards of service delivery.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

If you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

• Experience in the design and development (incl. build/test/deployment tool chain) of full stack enterprise solutions built on top of industry standards (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, React and similar frameworks); 
• Understanding of ERP systems and their integration with other systems; 
• Experience working with SQL, database systems, and their integration with Java applications;
• Ability to work collaboratively in an Agile self-organised team environment.

Each of the following would be a plus:

• Knowledge of Git or any equivalent VCS;
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like GitLab or equivalent;
• Knowledge of PL/SQL.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in IT, Software/Systems Engineering (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Job closing date: 18.08.2024 at 23:59h (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: FAP-BC-ENG-2024-121-GRAE

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-October-2024

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

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