Senior Architect

We are looking for a Senior Architect who will take a leading role in the design and development of large-scale applications for EU organizations, in the domain of border management and control.

Role description
• Member of architects’ team (international project in the public domain)
• Defining, assessing, and communicating architecture
• Delivering high-level and detailed architecture and design documents and leading the review process with the client
• Representing the company and the architecture team against internal and external stakeholders
• Leading and coordinating the implementation and/or troubleshooting, in close collaboration with the development teams
• Contributing to the Functional, Technical, Security, and Testing specifications
• Contributing to troubleshooting and fixing defects and in particular non-functional defects
• Performing studies and proposing design solutions in relation to changes and new requirements
• Cooperating with:
– Other architects and business analysts
– Dev teams
– Test teams
– Customer teams and other vendors
• Reports to Programme Management

Must have
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in ICT, with at least 5 years as a software architect or similar role
• Proven experience in large-scale distributed systems, with emphasis on high availability, high performance, high level of security, and zero data loss.
• Strong development background in Java, with recent development experience, able to cover the full range from system architecture to detailed technical design and to provide guidance to development teams.
• Proven experience with stream processing software platforms (e.g. Kafka, Flink)
• Experience in SOA, Microservices, gRPC, and Containerization (Kubernetes, Helm charts)
• Good understanding of platform and infrastructure (hardware, virtualization, cloud, OCP, etc.)
• Mastering UML, TOGAF Certified
• University degree in a relevant subject.
• Excellent communication skills in English
• EU citizenship

Considered a plus
• Experience in Spring Boot, Drools, Elastic Search, Apache ZooKeeper, Apache Helix, or similar tools and frameworks
• Experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect
• ArchiMate Certified
• Working experience with EU clients or other public institutions
• Experience with biometric systems
• Experience in Agile/Lean methods such as Scrum and/or Kanban

Qualifications
TOGAF, Sparx, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Helm, Unified Modeling Language (UML)