Application Architect

We currently have a vacancy for a 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.

Tasks:

• Work within the agile process and take decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team;
• Follow a number of activities across different projects and contractors requiring technical and project management skills: understand and comply to a review process, monitor status of certain tasks, coordinate internally and gather input from within the unit, other units, or within the Simpl programme. Typically supervise several business analysts;
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project;
• Interact with business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers;
• Analyse the integration of the different environments in the l Programme;
• Supervise the implementation of the technical architecture, including an analysis of the integration and interoperability of different existing open-source software building blocks that will be included in the cloud architecture;
• Assist during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation, and reporting.

Do you have experience in Web services?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * 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.

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (www.eurodyn.com) is a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operating internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). The company employs over 1000 engineers, IT experts and consultants (around 3% PhD, 36% MSc and 53% BSc or equivalent). We design and develop software applications using state-of-the-art technology. The group generates annual revenues in the range of EURO 40 million, with an EBITDA in the range of 20%. The value of our contract portfolio exceeds EURO 300 million. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.