DigitalService GmbH des Bundes

Infrastructure & Internal IT Lead (all genders)

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APPLICATION NOTES

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We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment. Therefore, we welcome all applications – regardless of religion and worldview, nationality and (ethnic or social) origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, as well as physical and intellectual abilities.

We review incoming applications solely based on their professional qualifications and the key qualifications required for the respective position. Therefore, we would like to ask you to refrain from including a photo of yourself in your CV and to remove information about your place of residence, age, gender, marital status, or similar.

Please send us your application exclusively via the online portal.

INTERVIEW PROCESS & CONTACT PERSON

After receiving your application, you will receive an invitation to an initial get-to-know-you session (screening call) with the responsible person from our Talent Acquisition team or a rejection within approximately two to three weeks.

After a successful screening call, two to three interviews with DigitalService employees will follow. First, it is about your professional qualifications, then about values and expectations regarding the team and collaboration. You can get further insights into our recruiting process in our blog post “Recruiting at DigitalService – What applicants can expect digitalservice.bund.de/blog/recruiting-beim-digitalservice-was-bewerbende-erwartet”.

Throughout the entire process, we are available to you at any time for questions, feedback, and exchange.

Do you have questions for us? Your contact person is Corinna Kley ([email protected]).

ABOUT US

We are shaping a digital state – together with the administration. As partners on equal footing, we empower the administration on its path to drive its own digitalization. Through our own iterative product development and our commitment to better framework conditions, we create the foundation for digital solutions that are scalable and effective.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

As Infrastructure & Internal IT Lead, you take holistic responsibility for building, leading, and further developing our IT landscape, including our cloud platform at STACKIT for digital administrative products. In doing so, you shape a central foundation of our mission: as a strategic enabler, you ensure that our teams can rely on modern, reliable, and scalable technological infrastructure. In this key role, you bring together the threads of our systems and shape the strategic direction of the established and partially new IT Workplace, Platform Engineering, Internal Engineering, and Information Security teams.

JOB DETAILS

  1. Development & implementation of the strategy for Infrastructure & Internal IT: You establish the department as a recognized, valued unit and shape the heterogeneous teams into a successful and cross-functional unit.
  1. Team leadership & empowerment: You lead the team leads of the Platform Engineering, IT Workplace, and Internal Engineering teams with trust, empathy, and appreciation. You create the strategic framework so that your teams can better integrate their activities.
  1. Harmonization of Infrastructure & Internal IT: You orchestrate the reliable, protective foundation of the digital work environment while simultaneously driving the construction and operation of cloud systems and automated data flows.
  1. Conception of and responsibility for enterprise architecture and security guidelines: You work on establishing future-proof IT architectures and further develop our IT governance in line with company goals. In doing so, you work closely with the Legal & Compliance team.
  1. Stakeholder management & IT steering: You network closely with our service teams, manage the IT requirements of the division and business management from consulting to implementation, and drive systemic topics in our matrix organization.
  1. Budget responsibility & risk management: You take on budget planning, resource management, IT controlling, as well as the further development of relevant key performance indicators and the establishment of effective risk management.

WHAT YOU BRING

  1. Leadership & internal IT experience: You bring sound leadership experience in the area of internal IT and systems in a tech company. Furthermore, you have skills in building and managing complex cloud-based IT landscapes as well as modern platform operations and related concepts such as Developer Experience (DX).
  1. Leadership experience with managers: You have already successfully led and developed team leads, practice an empowering leadership style (servant leadership), and understand how to strengthen interdisciplinary teams with trust, empathy, and strategic orientation.
  1. IT conception and project management: Skills in developing IT enterprise architectures and implementing holistic security concepts as well as extensive skills in cross-functional budget and cost planning.
  1. Interface competence & user-centricity: You bring a high level of service orientation, an understanding of the challenges of a professional service organization, and effective coordination and decision-making skills.
  1. Holistic TechOps and security knowledge: Sound knowledge in the areas of IT security, data protection, and governance as well as in the development and implementation of risk management.
  1. Language skills: You speak German at the C1 level and English at least at the B2 level, as we actively use both languages in our daily work.

WHY US?

  • Become part of our team of more than 280 people, which works in an interdisciplinary and iterative manner – and realizes the vision of a digital state together with the federal administration.
  • Work in a way that suits you best: You can organize your working hours flexibly, use our options for mobile work at any time, and choose your preferred operating system.
  • The salary for this position is between 90.000 – 105.000 Euro gross per year. For your individual classification within our salary bands and levels, we take into account the scope of responsibility of the position, the complexity of the tasks, and the assessment of your skills from the introductory interviews. Details on our level and salary system can be found in our blog post “About levels, money, and fairness digitalservice.bund.de/blog/ueber-level-geld-und-fairness-unser-neues-verguetungssystem”.
  • Urban Sports Club & more: Every month, you receive a 50 Euro voucher on top of your salary, which you can use flexibly. Fitness, technology, mobility, or food – the choice is yours!
  • You have the option to take out a company pension scheme with attractive conditions and an employer subsidy.

Further benefits can be found on our career page digitalservice.bund.de/karriere/perks-benefits.

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