0Head of Department Central IT Services (m/f/d)
Fachhochschule Südwestfalen | Germany | 58xxx Hagen | Permanent position | Part time - flexible / Full time / Home office | Published since: 14.01.2026 on stepstone.de

Head of Department Central IT Services (m/f/d)

Branch: Humanities Branch: Humanities


With more than 10,000 students, the University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen is one of the major state universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. Around 300 employees in technology and administration work at Hagen, Iserlohn, Lüdenscheid, Meschede and Soest. Teamwork is being raised with us, training, initiative and creativity have a high priority. As a certified family-friendly university, it is obvious to us to strengthen family as part of university culture and to ensure a balanced work-life balance. Our family office supports all questions about the reconciliation of family and profession. At the University of Applied Sciences in Southwestfalen, the following position is to be set for cooperation in the SG 6.2 Central IT services at the Hagen site:

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Head of the field of expertise, including personnel responsibility, operational planning and production Organisation, planning and implementation of highly complex IT projects Trend monitoring and evaluation of new technologies Participation in the strategic development of the subject area and responsibility for the continuous improvement of work processes and processes Participation in self-government (including budget planning, procurement, inventory) Participation in cross-sector, sometimes very difficult IT projects Working and health protection technical administration and responsibility for the operation of highly complex products with special reference to data protection (including identity management, authentication and communication systems) Participation in the technical administration of web services and chip card system Participation in the exhibition of digital certificates and responsibility for compliance with DFN-PKI guidelines

completed university studies (Bachelor or FH Diploma) of computer science, electrical engineering or a related subject, professional experience in comparable activity sound knowledge in the field of automation of IT processes (e.g. programming knowledge for automation with Shell / Python) / Ansible / Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) pronounced communication skills and service orientation, friendly appearance very good German knowledge (at least C1 level in word and writing) and good knowledge in English (at least B2 level) high loadability in stress situations Safety regulations according to the state of the art and usage regulations Organisational and team skills Experience in employee management is advantageous Analytical approach, pronounced analytical competence and an independent and thorough procedure the ability to professional and appropriate solutions using scientific methods based on the defined requirements sound knowledge in the fields: safe operation of Linux and Windows server environments based on BSI basic protection Load distribution and high availability container-based application operation with Docker / Kubernetes Databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle) / SQL Development Web and Application Server (Apache / Tomcat / Wildfly) Identity and Access Management, including E-Directory / LDAP Data protection laws / GDPR, as applicable DIN / ISO standards for IT good knowledge of IP-based network services, protocols and topologies good knowledge of current technologies and architectures of networks, private/public clouds and data centers in the enterprise environment

The full-time employment relationship shall be based on the collective agreement for the public service of the countries and shall be fixed without delay. Depending on the existence of the personal conditions, the grouping takes place up to the remuneration group 13 TV-L. The position can also be occupied in parttime. Working time and place of work can be flexibly designed as part of an existing model. .

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ava Fachhochschule Südwestfalen
58095  Hagen
Germany

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