IT Solutions Designer (Project/Initiative Ownership)

Quick Facts

• Role: IT Solutions Designer (initiative/foreseen project ownership)

• Focus: IT initiative planning, requirements/change management, and IT solution design

• Type: Permanent position (with possibility of a temporary specialist allowance)

• Location: Potsdam, Germany

Description

You will design and manage IT solutions and services for initiatives, including planning resources, strategy alignment, schedules, and budgets. The role includes capturing and maintaining functional and non-functional requirements, handling and coordinating IT changes, and analyzing dependencies. You will steer the IT solution design process, document designs, and ensure alignment across business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and monitor IT initiatives considering staffing, IT strategy, IT security concept, timeline, and budget

• Define and align goals, results, and milestones

• Identify, evaluate, and analyze dependencies between IT initiatives; develop and implement solutions

• Capture, document, and continuously update requirements; take in functional and non-functional requirements from multiple perspectives and coordinate them

• Prioritize, coordinate, and monitor requirement packages; steer and oversee requirements capture, analysis, and assessment

• Own requirements-management reporting and status reporting

• Capture, analyze, align, document, and update changes, considering functional and non-functional aspects for business and operations

• Manage end-to-end change planning and prioritization; create specialist planning and concepts for change development and execution

• Coordinate and oversee change capture, analysis, and assessment; provide related reporting

• Analyze, design, and conceptualize solutions from both functional and technical viewpoints; ensure overarching coordination and alignment

• Steer and monitor the IT solution design process and maintain methods, strategies, and guidelines

• Document and maintain IT solution designs; coordinate and oversee design of new or changed services and analyze dependencies

Requirements

• Completed relevant university degree (Bachelor or Fachhochschule) in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or comparable qualification; alternatively, eligibility for the higher technical civil service

• At least 3 years of practical IT experience

• Experience in IT project management and ITIL-oriented service design and service transition (certifications are a plus)

• Experience with agile methods and supporting tools; Pega platform experience is a plus

• Knowledge of requirements management and IT change management for IT solutions and business processes, preferably in public administration or real-estate management

• Knowledge of software development methodology and awareness of IT law, IT compliance, data protection, and information security

• Confident technical English and strong communication skills in German (verbal and written)

• Ability to prepare and communicate complex topics clearly and target-group appropriately

• Structured, independent, solution-oriented working style with teamwork and confident appearance

• Interest in digitization, innovation, and further development of modern IT solutions

Benefits

• Competitive pay under TVöD Bund (Entgeltgruppe 12); potential temporary specialist allowance up to €1,500/month depending on candidate situation

• 30 days of vacation

• Employer-sponsored retirement provision

• Mobile work with equipment

• Flexible working hours for work–life balance

• Annual special payment (Jahressonderzahlung)

• Training and professional development opportunities

• Health offers

• Free parking and good public-transport access (including subsidy for the DeutschlandJobTicket)

• Possibility to rent a federal government apartment from the housing support program (if applicable)

• Occasional business trips with sufficient lead time; positions generally suitable for part-time