Behind every record, there are years of intensive training and the athlete’s desire to produce excellent performances.

Behind the result, there is profound know-how and the high precision of Swiss Timing’s state-of-the-art technology.
If you have a special interest in technology and you want to participate in the future development of high level sport...
we are looking for you!
Globally active, our company is constantly seeking for employees determined to progress and work in a highly innovative
environment.

Swiss Timing Corporate and Service Production IT Manager

Job-description & Responsibilities:

To extend our « Corporate and Service Production IT » team, you will be responsible for evaluating our existing IT
technologies and processes, then advising the executive team on the best ways to move forward with cost-effectiveness
and competitive advantages in mind. We are competing in a cost efficient - high availability (flawless) service environment,
and we believe that our innovative use of IT play a major role for our service production (SOS). Being one of the world’s
leading sports timekeepers, the quality and availability of the provided services is a key success factor.

Swiss Timing Corporate IT Services:

• Set objectives and strategies for the IT department


• Secure a unified corporate approach in the strategic, tactic and operational IT activities


• Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the company can gain competitive advantage


• Select and implement suitable technology to streamline all internal operations and help optimize their strategic
  benefits – plan the implementation of new systems and provide guidance to IT professionals and other employees
  within the organization


• Design, analyze and customize corporate technological systems and platforms, including ERP, to improve employee
  experience in compliance with Swatch Group IT governance and policies


• Responsible of the IT infrastructure and data protection compliance with applicable laws and regulations


• Supervise the development and advancement of our IT infrastructure, IT security and access management


• Negotiate contracts with vendors and service providers for installing new technology and training employees on its
  use


• Prepare cost-benefit analyses for every change in our IT workflow


• Recommend hardware and software upgrades as appropriate to improve operations


• Manage the IT department team and control the assigned IT budgets and expenses

ST Corporate and Service Production IT Manager 2018
Swiss Timing LTD Phone +41 32 488 36 11
P.O. Box 138, Rue de l’Envers 1 info@swisstiming.com
CH-2606 Corgémont - Switzerland www.swisstiming.com

Service Production:

The production of Swiss Timing services is a pretty unique IT situation requiring high-availability systems running in
temporary locations and benefiting of suitable IT Security protections. IT infrastructure services are expected to be
provided as transparently as possible to the local production team (SOS). The main responsibilities related to Swiss Timing
Service Production are:

• Design, analyze, test and improve the specific IT infrastructure supporting Swiss Timing service production
  (World Cups, Olympic Games, Multisport, Broadcast services, Central Services, etc.)
  o Secure decent IT Security standard by design, monitoring and other proactive measures
  o Secure the continuity of services meeting required high-availability conditions
  o Provide efficient and effective central infrastructure and services (cloud, elastic hosting, etc.)
  o Support the operations by providing appropriate preparation and production support
  o Provide services to store and extract competition collected data for backup and reuse purposes
  o Monitor service production IT infrastructure performance to provide metrics


• Unify the IT service production landscape to manage the complexity and provide an IT infrastructure
  manageable by the production teams (SOS).


• Design, analyze, test and improve the specific software deployment model and IT services to ensure preparation
  activities and service production (SOS) have the right deployment.


• Develop, improve and provide necessary training and awareness activities to the different audiences.


• Maintain the required IT infrastructure (availability of the services, monitoring, thread detection, right
  management, etc.) of the central services.

Your profile & Experience:

• Degree in computer science, information technology (network infrastructure / IT-security / business continuity)
  or relevant field.


• Proven experience (10+ years) in systems and IT infrastructure (design & operation)


• Specific proven experience in IT security and IT critical service delivery


• Sound background in designing/developing Enterprise IT systems and planning IT implementation


• Solid understanding of business operations and budgeting


• Superior analytical and problem-solving capabilities driven by a strategic and business mindset


• Experience in team management and project management


• Experience in software and configuration deployment


• Experience in datacenter and cloud services design and operations


• Deep understanding of the Microsoft environment

Additional requirements:

• Excellent organizational and leadership skills


• Strong communication skills, capable to communicate clearly on management level


• Structured and organized personality


• Being a team player

Language skills:

• English – fluent


• French is a strong advantage


• German is an advantage

Start date:

• ASAP

Interested? Please send your job application to Ms. Patricia Spozio, Human Resources Manager, HR@swisstiming.com

Swiss Timing LTD Phone +41 32 488 36 11
P.O. Box 138, Rue de l’Envers 1 info@swisstiming.com
CH-2606 Corgémont - Switzerland www.swisstiming.com