Full Time (40 h/w)

Klosterneuburg near Vienna, Austria / Home Office possible

€ 63,000* gross/year

Your Responsibilities

Excellent research needs state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and innovative digital services. With a team of about 50 experts, we will redesign the Institute's digital landscape over the next few years and implement an ambitious digital transformation programme to facilitate the Institute’s rapid growth. As part of this strategy, we are refining, consolidating and extending the service portfolio of our internal software development. Join us on an exciting journey to make this transformation a success!

As part of our Software Development team, you will play a leading role in defining, managing, and overseeing the execution of our development projects.
These projects include continuous improvements of our existing services, the modernisation of legacy applications, the introduction of a new low-code platform, and the integration of new services like Microsoft 365 into our system landscape. Your responsibilities include:

• Working on requirements engineering, with our business analysts, internal clients, and external partners
• Writing technical specifications and acceptance criteria from business requirements
• Breaking down larger features or epics into user stories and technical tasks for developers
• Organising the backlog, defining release packages, managing development tasks
• Continuously improving the software development process at ISTA
• Acting as a Scrum Master (leading stand-ups, planning sprints, reviews and retrospectives)
• Defining tests, coordination and implementation of user acceptance tests (UAT)
• Providing technical and end-user documentation
  
  

Your Profile

• Higher education in computer science, information technology, business management, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Strong knowledge of the system architectures, APIs, databases, and general technical concepts relevant to our applications
• Prior experience in a technical role (e.g. Developer, Technical Analyst, or QA Lead)
• Excellent working experience in Agile development and Scrum methodology
• Scrum certification (Certificed Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master)
• Good knowledge of project management methods and tools as well as business process design
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate technical information clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• High degree of focus and accuracy, also when working on multiple tasks simultaneously
• Working language is English, good working knowledge in German is an advantage
  
  

Your Benefits

• Education & training
• Multiple health offers
• Free shuttle bus
• Pension insurance
• Childcare
• Cafeteria

ISTA is growing. Grow with us!

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is a constantly growing international institute for conducting frontier research in mathematics, computer science, life sciences & physical sciences. We strive to recruit passionate professionals from across the world over all fields who strive to support our goal of excellent research. Located within a beautiful campus on the outskirts of Vienna, we offer multiple opportunities for personal growth in a stable working environment. Get an insight!

ISTA promotes a diverse and inclusive working environment and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all applicants, free of discrimination. All employment decisions at ISTA are based on job requirements, qualifications, merit and organizational needs. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.

*This position comes with possible overpayment depending on education, qualification and work experience. For more information on how ISTA processes your personal data, please refer to www.ista.ac.at/data-protection.