ICT Integration Services Technician

*** THIS IS A LOCAL POSITION FOR WHICH ONLY APPLICANTS WHO POSSESS THE SPANISH NATIONALITY OR A VALID RESIDENCE AND WORK PERMIT IN SPAIN ARE ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION *** 


The ICT Integration Services Technician will carry out his/her tasks within the Operations Support Division (OSD) of the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) in New York.

Under the overall supervision of UNOPS Senior Programme Manager and Senior Manager – Business Systems or designated officer in NY and within delegated authority of Solutions Architect in Valencia, the incumbent will be required to perform the following duties at the United Nations Information and Communication Technology Facility (UNICTF) in Valencia.

• Assists in validating functional requirements integration;
• Actively contributes ideas and approaches during design sessions with other developers;
• Tracks emerging technologies and solutions for improvements;
• Works with the team to Implement solutions for the integration of platforms and applications;
• Performs Application Program Interface (API) Management for different tools;
• Works on manual and automated testing techniques to ensure proper performance of deliverable functionalities, providing test cases and avoiding regressions;
• Supports in the application deployment and maintenance of the infrastructure;
• Supports in the development of innovative concepts that could be implemented in addition to, or as a replacement of, existing solutions;
• Assists in creation of user and project documentation;
• Contributes to the tracking and reporting times and efforts invested on the assigned tasks;
• Performs other related duties as required

• Secondary education is required; 
• A university degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field is highly desirable;

Required:

• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in Application Program Interface (APIs) management and Representational State Transfer (REST) services;
• A minimum of three (3) years’ of experience on Java Enterprise Eddition (EE);
• A minimum of two (2) years’s of experience working with message brokers (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, etc) and integration and routing frameworks (Apache Camel or similar) for handling subscription/consumption messaging from persistent queues is required;

Desirable:

• Experience working with web sockets;
• Experience on Jboss;
• Experience in PHP and JavaScript code writing;
• Experience in multinational working environment;
• Knowledge on Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence);

• English and French are the working languages of the UN. For this job opening, fluency in English (both oral and written) is required;
• Knowledge of another UN official language is desirable

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

Based in New York, the Sustainable Development Cluster (SDC) supports diverse partners with their peacebuilding, humanitarian and development operations.

The SDC’s services include grants management, development and special initiatives support, and technology support to the UN and UN agencies.

The SDC is part of the New York Service Cluster that supports the United Nations Secretariat, as well as a broadening community of other New York-based United Nations organizations, bilateral and multilateral partners in the delivery of UNOPS mandate in project management, infrastructure management, and procurement management.