Application and Cloud Architect L10 - Deadline 19/01/26

AlmavivA de Belgique

4 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Job location

Tech stack

HTML

Java

JavaScript

XML Schema

Multitier Architecture

API

Agile Methodologies

Data analysis

Applications Architecture

Component-Based Software Engineering

Application Frameworks

Application Performance Management

Automation of Tests

Oracle WebLogic Server

CSS

Cloud Computing

Cloud Engineering

Software Quality

Code Review

Information Systems

Computer Programming

Databases

Continuous Integration

Relational Databases

DevOps

Programming Tools

Enterprise Architecture Framework

Eclipse

Elasticsearch

Java Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

Hibernate

IntelliJ

Interoperability

Java Persistence API

Spring

JSON

Java Architecture for XML Binding

JUnit

PostgreSQL

Liquibase

Maven

Nginx

OAuth

Object-Oriented Software Development

Oracle Applications

Scrum

Redis

Openid Connect

Cloud Services

Angular

Swagger

Message Oriented Middleware

Service-Oriented Architecture

Service Discovery

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

SoapUI

SONAR (Symantec)

PL-SQL

SQL Databases

UML

Web Services

Web Services Description Language

XML

Openapi

Oracle Soa

Data Logging

Client Side Scripting

React

Grafana

Spring-boot

Technical Debt

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Gitlab

GIT

Togaf

Event Driven Architecture

Containerization

Angular

Jax Ws

Integration Tests

Performance Monitor

Kafka

Build Tools

Bitbucket

Front End Software Development

Api Gateway

Software Coding

REST

Software Version Control

Dynatrace

Devsecops

Enterprise Service Bus

Docker

Jenkins

Microservices

Job description

Design high-level application architecture that is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with modern development practices.

Define application frameworks, component interactions, and integration points.

Evaluate appropriate technologies, platforms, and tools.

Lead the development of architectural blueprints and technical documentation.

Ensure adherence to coding standards, design principles, and security practices.

Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies.

Participate in code reviews and ensure architectural integrity across teams.

Guide development teams through technical decisions and challenges.

Monitor and improve application performance, reliability and scalability.

Identify technical debt and work toward continuous improvement.

Analysis of the integration of different information systems.

Data analysis and data modelling.

Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users.

Assistance during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation and reporting.

Analysis, design and implementations of services and components in a domain driven architecture.

Provision of technical expertise, feasibility/risk/impact analysis and evaluations in relation with information systems.

Act as a senior full stack developer and technical lead. Develop and review code when needed.

Familiar with Agile practices. Willing to help the team mature in Agile driven processes.

Provision of security assessments and solutions associated with information systems.

Review, evaluate and test applications or (also third party) components to ensure integration with the other application components, and compliance with the requirements and standards.

Requirements

Very good knowledge of architecture design patterns and enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
Very good knowledge of applications design, including multi-tier applications.
Strong experience with transitioning from monolith to microservices architecture.
Very good knowledge of microservices and cloud architecture.
Relevant and proved experience with event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, and microservice orchestration.
Good knowledge of interoperability technologies: web services, message-oriented middleware (MOM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Programming & Development
Strong experience with Java (JEE/Jakarta EE), including migrations (Java 8 to Java 21, J2EE to Jakarta EE 8).
Strong experience with Spring ecosystem (Spring Framework, Spring Boot).
Front-end experience with Angular (2+), ideally latest versions, and modern UI paradigms (client-side scripting, React).
Experience in object-oriented design, reusable component design, and UML modelling.
Experience with RESTful API design and WS SOAP development (Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA

Suite).

Familiarity with XML, XSD, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAXB, WSDL, JAX-RPC.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Proven experience with cloud-native applications and Containers as a Service (CaaS).
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Strong experience with Docker images and containers.
Relevant experience with Vault (secrets management) and Consul (service discovery).
Experience with API Gateway and API validation tools (OpenAPI/Swagger).
Proved experience with NGINX server.
Integration & Messaging
Strong practical experience with Kafka.
Experience with Message-Oriented Middleware and Enterprise Service Bus technologies.
Strong experience with event-driven systems and microservice orchestration.
Databases & Persistence
Good knowledge of relational DBMS (PostgreSQL and Oracle).
Experience with dedicated database per domain and interoperability patterns.
Experience with Redis for session and cache management.
Experience with Liquibase for database migrations.
Familiarity with PL/SQL, SQL, Hibernate, JPA.
Testing, Quality & CI/CD
Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks: JUnit, DbUnit, ArchUnit, in-memory databases.
Experience with automated testing and branch management.
Experience with cloud-native CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with Jenkins, Sonar, Bitbucket, GitLab for continuous integration and code quality.
Experience with architecture decision enforcement at pull request level before merging.
Experience with automation test frameworks.
Monitoring & Logging
Experience with Dynatrace, ElasticSearch, and Grafana.
Experience with Cloud Native observability.
Security
Experience with OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
Experience with Vault for properties and secrets management.
Tools & Miscellaneous
Experience with version control tools (GIT).
Familiarity with development tools and IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse).
Experience with build tools and dependency management (Maven, Ant).
Experience with SoapUI for web service testing.
Familiarity with Scrum and Agile methodologies.
Practical experience with JSON, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE:

At least 10 years of experience with Architecture Design - Competence level 5.

o Including experience with architecture design patterns, enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), and multi-tier application design.

At least 10 years of experience with Micro-services - Competence level 5.

o Experience with microservices design, event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, and transitioning from monolith to microservices.

At least 10 years of experience with Cloud Native applications- Competence level 5.

o Design and development of cloud-native solutions leveraging containerization, orchestration, and scalable cloud services.

At least 10 years of experience with Java/JEE - Competence level 5.

o Strong experience with Java frameworks including Spring Boot; migrations across Java versions.

At least 5 years of experience with Angular 2 plus - Competence level min 4.

o Experience with Angular 2+ (preferably Angular 18), modern UI paradigms, and client-side scripting.

At least 5 years of experience with Cloud DevSecOps - Competence level min 4.

o Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker), service discovery (Consul), secrets management (Vault), and security frameworks (OAuth2, OpenID Connect).