IT jobs at UN in Vienna, Austria

Position: Information Systems Assistant at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism

Duties and responsibilities

• Participates in the development, programming, testing, debugging and implementation of new application systems releases, modules, and functionalities.
• Develop, test, debug, implement and maintain applications using standard web-based and client-server development frameworks and technologies ASP.NET, MVC, C#, WCF, WPF, MS SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript, ORM, SQL, Angular JS, and other frameworks,
• Develop, test, debug and implement applications using standard development methodology and tools, Scrum, Agile, TFS.
• Serves as a team member in the planning, specification, design, development, implementation, and support of computer application systems. Also, independently liaises with users to define and specify requirements.
• Installs computer application systems software and hardware according to specifications. Also, monitors computer applications systems using appropriate monitoring tools and produces monitoring reports.
• Prepares technical and user documentation for deployed computer application systems, as well as training materials and conducts technical presentations.
• Maintains functional specifications for computer application systems, programs, and procedures developed and/or modified.
• Provides support for deployed computer application systems including version management, data recovery and deployment to users’ offices. Similarly, performs ongoing reviews with users and developers and response to users requests.

Additional duties

• Drafts correspondence and communications, including work plan revisions and other related issues, as well as prepares unit contributions for a variety of periodic reports.
  
• Serves as a focal point for coordination, monitoring and expedition of computer application systems development projects, involving extensive liaison with diverse organizational units to initiate requests.
• Similarly, prepares standard terms of reference; processes and follows-up on administrative actions and resolves issues related to project implementation, e.g. organization of and participation in training, procurement of equipment and services, etc.
  
• Keeps abreast of developments in the field as well as performs benchmarking and proposes new acquisitions.
  
• Provides guidance to new/junior staff.
  
• Furthermore, performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum requirements

• Along with a high school diploma, ITIL certificate or qualification is the most.
• In addition to that, A minimum of 7 years of relevant technical experience in information systems analysis and programming, systems administration and maintenance, software development, technical writing, or related area is necessary.
• Similarly, experience in developing medium to large scale systems using Microsoft .NET/ C#,ASP.NET coupled with JS, AngularJS, WebAPI, Entity Framework.
• Experience using agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban or Test-Driven Development as well as designing relational databases.
• Experience in the Release and Deployment Management process specified by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework.
• For this post fluency in English (both oral and written) is mandatory. Furthermore, knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.