Polaris Migration and Security Compliance Officer

Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?

We are looking for a Polaris Migration and Security Compliance Officer to work on a service contract for one of our clients on site.

You will be responsible for managing system evolution initiatives, migration activities, and security compliance requirements across the Polaris environment.

The role serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders, technical teams, and governance functions to ensure that system changes, migrations, and decommissioning activities are planned, executed, and documented in accordance with approved security policies and compliance standards.

You will provide oversight of testing, risk mitigation, data integrity, and knowledge transfer activities while driving continuous improvement in migration and security processes.

About the client and location

The ESA Centre for Earth Observation (ESRIN) is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) base in Frascati, Italy. From this location ESA conducts most of their earth observation research, including data analysis and distribution for other non-ESA satellites.

This position is open to protected categories under Italian Law 68/99 (“Rules for the right to work of disabled people”).

Questa posizione e’ aperta alle categorie protette L. 68/99.

Tasks and activities

The scope of work will include:

• Engaging with business stakeholders to capture, document, and manage system evolution requirements.
• Coordinating with DevOps and technical teams to plan and deliver approved system enhancements.
• Managing system evolution activities from concept through to delivery and user acceptance.
• Developing and overseeing migration and decommissioning plans for legacy systems.
• Ensuring migration activities comply with organisational security requirements, certification agreements, and approved procedures.
• Monitoring data integrity, consistency, and security throughout migration projects.
• Verifying that approved security protocols and controls are applied during data transfer activities.
• Developing and overseeing migration testing strategies, validation plans, and readiness assessments.
• Coordinating non-production testing environments to validate migration activities before production deployment.
• Maintaining migration, security, and compliance documentation.
• Delivering training and knowledge transfer related to migration, compliance, and operational procedures.
• Identifying process improvement opportunities and recommend enhancements to migration and security practices.
• Supporting audits, compliance reviews, and operational governance activities.

Skills and experience

The following skills and experience are mandatory:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience managing system migrations, decommissioning projects, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of information security principles, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with risk management, security controls, and secure data transfer processes.
• Knowledge of testing, validation, and quality assurance methodologies.
• Ability to develop migration strategies, implementation plans, and supporting documentation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and organisational skills.
• Background working in security-sensitive or regulated environments.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

The following skills and experience would be highly desirable:

• Professional security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor, or equivalent.
• Experience with ESA, aerospace, defense, or government environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps, Agile delivery methodologies, and change management practices.
• Knowledge of data governance and records management.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM).
• Experience supporting audits, accreditation activities, or security certification programs.

Why should you apply?

• You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
• We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
• To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
• Benefits include: competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to achieving diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. We therefore welcome applications from all candidates, irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious beliefs, age, disability or other characteristics.

As part of our commitment to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process, we will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.