At the European Patent Office (EPO), we are in the midst of a major transformation, building a DevOps practice and making the agile principles a reality, adopting green technologies and the use of artificial intelligence. It's like nothing we've ever done before!
Our mission is to support innovation, competitiveness and economic growth across Europe. We pride ourselves on taking innovation seriously and, in line with our Strategic Plan 2023, have fully committed to digital transformation within the EPO.
With the first projects launched in this area, we are now seeking talented IT professionals keen to meet the challenges of change. We are looking to recruit highly creative individuals with a broad range of skills across the field of IT, and also to develop a talent pool in anticipation of future openings.
Within the Corporate IT directorate, the Productivity Applications, Collaboration and Events (PACE) department provides to the Office applications and tools to foster an effective and collaborative workplace. It provides fit for purpose productivity application like Microsoft365, OpenText, many off the shelf products like Azavista, Spatial Chat, Zoom, etc. and fosters collaboration with modern tools and conferencing solutions to allow users to work from anywhere, on any device, at any time.
Technology is evolving constantly and rapidly and the team aims to monitor these changes in order to align Office policies and strategies with business needs and new technologies
With us you will
Apply if you have
Our minimum requirements for this post
What we offer
Process
The successful candidate will be selected on the basis of qualifications, competencies, professional experience and language knowledge, supplemented as appropriate by interviews, tests and/or a personality questionnaire.
A reserve list may be constituted, should more candidates than required at this time be considered suitable following the selection procedure. Such reserve lists are valid for 18 months and reserve list candidates may be contacted, should a vacancy with substantially the same profile arise during that period.
Key information
* after deduction of EPO-internal tax and before deduction of staff contributions to the social security and pension schemes.
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We welcome all applications for vacant positions. We consider each on its professional merits – regardless of your nationality, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion or belief.
We welcome all applications for vacant positions. We consider each on its professional merits – regardless of your nationality, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion or belief.
Apply here: https://ex.cndrn.co/campaign/url/forward/84315726eb05
Our mission is to support innovation, competitiveness and economic growth across Europe. We pride ourselves on taking innovation seriously and, in line with our Strategic Plan 2023, have fully committed to digital transformation within the EPO.
With the first projects launched in this area, we are now seeking talented IT professionals keen to meet the challenges of change. We are looking to recruit highly creative individuals with a broad range of skills across the field of IT, and also to develop a talent pool in anticipation of future openings.
Within the Corporate IT directorate, the Productivity Applications, Collaboration and Events (PACE) department provides to the Office applications and tools to foster an effective and collaborative workplace. It provides fit for purpose productivity application like Microsoft365, OpenText, many off the shelf products like Azavista, Spatial Chat, Zoom, etc. and fosters collaboration with modern tools and conferencing solutions to allow users to work from anywhere, on any device, at any time.
Technology is evolving constantly and rapidly and the team aims to monitor these changes in order to align Office policies and strategies with business needs and new technologies
With us you will
- Manage the Microsoft 365 environment and other digital workplace solutions
- Provide technical expertise to users on the use of Microsoft 365 applications and related platforms
- Deliver architecture services providing advice and support to projects and activities which have an impact on the digital workplace
- Monitor vendor roadmaps for upcoming changes to existing tools, review and evaluate new tools to determine which tools should be deployed and promoted.
- Align upgrades and requests for new tools between business needs and IT requirements.
- Drive changes and improvements.
- Develop Proofs of Concept when required to answer Architecture concerns
- Manage security hardening for the different platforms
- Monitor, review and update the implementation and governance in place for the digital workplace environment (security, data protection, developments…)
- Participate to the decommissioning of existing tools
- Analyse market trends in technologies and functionalities related to productivity and artificial intelligence
- Recommend new tools for incorporating into our catalogue for managing productivity.
Apply if you have
- Large experience as solution architect
- Experience with digital workplace and collaboration tools
- Broad experience with Microsoft365 aspects and related products.
- Experience of security hardening (experience with Microsoft Security Assessments).
- Knowledge and experience with MS-Power platform Center of Excellence (CoE)
- Experience with MS labelling system (Integration between Office 365 and OpenText is an asset)
- Charismatic, highly motivated, pro-active and service oriented.
- Demonstrated good interpersonal skills and the ability to work with various service areas
- Ability to write technical documents
- Proven effective oral and written communication skills
Our minimum requirements for this post
- Diploma of completed studies at master's level or – in exceptional cases – equivalent professional experience
- Generally, an excellent knowledge (at least C1) of one official language (English, French and German) and ability to understand the other two; alternatively, excellent knowledge (at least C1) of at least one official language (in such cases, the willingness to learn the missing language(s) and to reach level B2 within a set time frame would be required)
- Citizenship of one of the member states of the European Patent Organisation
What we offer
- An opportunity to participate in complex IT projects at the heart of the EPO's digital transformation initiative
- Daily collaboration with a diverse, hard-working and united team of highly skilled and dedicated professionals from all over Europe
- Self-development opportunities through a broad range of training activities provided by our Learning Teams
- A challenging yet highly rewarding working environment
- A comprehensive and family-friendly benefits package
- A flexible working model
- Access to a wide variety of social activities and clubs
- Flexibility to work in either Munich or The Hague
Process
The successful candidate will be selected on the basis of qualifications, competencies, professional experience and language knowledge, supplemented as appropriate by interviews, tests and/or a personality questionnaire.
A reserve list may be constituted, should more candidates than required at this time be considered suitable following the selection procedure. Such reserve lists are valid for 18 months and reserve list candidates may be contacted, should a vacancy with substantially the same profile arise during that period.
Key information
- Job group: 4
- Grade: G7 to G10 (net (basic) monthly salary* for this vacancy: EUR 5 901 to 9 364, depending on experience)
- Duration of appointment: 5 years
- Career path: Technical
- Location: Office-wide
- Application deadline: 6 November 2023
- Interviews planned for: 13 November - 8 December 2023
* after deduction of EPO-internal tax and before deduction of staff contributions to the social security and pension schemes.
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We welcome all applications for vacant positions. We consider each on its professional merits – regardless of your nationality, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion or belief.
We welcome all applications for vacant positions. We consider each on its professional merits – regardless of your nationality, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion or belief.
Apply here: https://ex.cndrn.co/campaign/url/forward/84315726eb05