Information Systems Officer

United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism

Vienna, Austria

The incumbent will report to the Senior Information Systems Officer. The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) undertakes counter-terrorism capacity building projects at the global, regional and national level to contribute to the full implementation of all four Pillars of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

Responsibilities:

  • Manages projects involving feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation of new, moderately complex systems, and/or, participates as a member of a development team with responsibility for major components of the more complex systems.
  • Develops detailed system and other functional specifications and user documentation for major systems. 
  • Handle, prioritize and process user support tickets and queries received from clients for computer application systems.
  • Provides specialized advice to users, analyzing users’ requirements and translating these into new applications; determines application systems integration and linkage issues. 
  • Maintains, upgrades or enhances existing user systems; troubleshoots and provides continuing user support, to include resolving difficult problems, advising on the use of new techniques, monitoring transactions to measure performance and continued effectiveness of assigned systems, etc. 
  • Develops and maintains computer programs that require integration of many interrelated systems and program elements; ensures appropriate data security and access controls considering both local and wide area issues. 
  • Organizes and performs unit and integrated testing, designing and utilizing test bases; assists users in acceptance testing.
  • Develops training materials, operating and user manuals; trains staff in assigned systems. 
  • Develops disaster recovery plans and ensures appropriate planning and training of those responsible.
  • Researches, analyzes and evaluates new technologies and makes recommendations for their deployment. 
  • Participates in writing reports and papers on systems-related topics, system requirements, information strategy, etc.

Education:

  • Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field.
  • A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

Work Experience:

  • A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in planning, design, development, implementation, deployment and maintenance of computer information systems or related area is required.   
  • Experience of ITIL, ITSM framework, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Administration of Ticketing/Monitoring tools (JIRA, Remedy, New Relic etc.) is required.   
  • Experience working in various UN Secretariat organizations as well as agencies is an asset.
  • Familiarity with systems used in the UN, including their technical aspects and business functionalities is desirable.   
  • Experience using "Agile" methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and/or Test-Driven Development is desirable    Experience in developing medium to large scale systems using Microsoft .NET/ C#, ASP.NET coupled with JS, AngularJS, WebAPI, Entity Framework is desirable.   
  • A working knowledge of Ms SQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch cluster, Kibana and the ability to design databases is desirable   
  • A working knowledge of Active directory, ADFS, DNS, Windows Servers is desirable

Languages:

  • English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
  • For the position(s) advertised, fluency in both oral and written English is required.
  • knowledge of French is desirable.
  • Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/258811?language=en