Application Architect (InformationTechnology / Software)

Our client, a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operates internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). Our client is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.

Role Overview

Our client currently has a vacancy for an Application Architect in English, to offer his / her services as an expert who will be based in Brussels, Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.

Job type : Full time / Permanent

Location : Brussels, Belgium.

Workplace : Onsite

Please note that we can consider only EU candidates for this position due to security clearance.

Requirements

• Master degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 17 years;
• Experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems;
• Experience with large projects or programmes;
• Experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.);
• Experience with enterprise architecture best practices and goals;
• Experience working in a public sector environment;
• Proven experience in managing activities under a large project or programme autonomously, while coordinating with the team, contractors and / or client;
• Excellent knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle;
• Excellent knowledge of cloud architecture frameworks;
• Excellent knowledge of Infrastructure as code;
• Practical knowledge of (Open-Source) data sharing tools (EDC, Gaia-X, others), models and standards (W3C DID, W3C DCAT, W3C ODRL);
• Good Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, and actual experience developing and building models based on such framework;
• Good knowledge of security mechanisms for cloud architectures (e.g., IdP) and best practices and patterns;
• Good knowledge of microservices and architecture in the cloud;
• Good knowledge of applications design;
• Good knowledge of modelling tools;
• Good knowledge of Relational DBMS;
• Good knowledge of business process analysis;
• Good knowledge of interoperability technologies at cloud infrastructure level but also at service level (web services, message-oriented middleware, service-oriented bus, event architecture);
• Knowledge of AI, Machine Learning or High-Performance services;
• Knowledge of Infrastructure or data layer;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Responsibilities