Freelance Software Architect

FREELANCE SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

The Software Architect will work in the context of projects in the 'Corporate Financial Procurement & Policy Solutions' Unit.
Examples of project from the Policy section are:
•A project that aims at, amongst others, making available some information of companies to several business registers and to the citizens through a central platform.
•A project that aims at enabling communication between Authorities in their own languages on some selected topics supported by a piece of legislation.
Examples of projects from the Corporate Financial and Procurement sections are:
•A project which aims at exchanging procurement documents between a supplier and a customer.
•A project which aims at providing an implementation of the e-Sense specifications.

TASK DESCRIPTION
The Software Architect will work on the development of one of the projects of the unit, providing expert advice and assistance on all technical matters related to Oracle, Weblogic, JEE. The Architect might also be requested to provide with a reference implementation.

REQUIRED EXPERTISE
The candidate should have knowledge of:
Methodologies:
•RUP for Software Development.
•Tools supporting methodologies: Atlassian Jira and SVN.

Design / Architecture / Technologies:
•In depth knowledge of JEE
•Very good knowledge of Oracle
•Relational database management systems is required (store procedure, schemas)
•Multi-lingual applications
•Service-Oriented Architecture (web-services in particular)
•Distributed Architecture
•Architecture market trends / standards
•Design patterns
•Groovy / Rails

Testing:
•SOAP UI, Hermes JMS
•Automated testing with Selenium
•Security:
•Knowledge of PKI
•CAS for Authentication

The candidate should have proven experience in:
Methodologies:
•Use and enforce Software Development methodologies.

Design / Architecture:
•Study architectural alternatives and improved solutions for the new developments, including the search for new technologies.
•Elaborate feasibility studies focused upon infrastructure components (focused on the web-application and DB side).
•Elaborate business case analysis related to web-application based on functional requirements
•Provide technical evaluations in relation with information systems infrastructure
•Implement distributed systems (SOA, web-services, REST, MOM)
•Architect distributed applications

Testing and Deployment:
•Monitor performance of application with profiling
•Study and implement application technical upgrades
•Provide expertise in organising and implementing deployment studies as well as stress tests for meeting the IS hosting requirements.
•Design automatic testing and implement continuous integration

Security:
•Implement digital certificates and digital signatures.

Expected additional skills of the candidate are:
•English (spoken) and good technical redaction skills in English.
•Excellent communicator.
•Capability of working in an international/ multicultural environment
•Technical leader: identifying tasks, assigning to and follow them up with the developers

PRACTICAL DETAILS
•Start: Asap
•Location: Brussels
•Duration: Long term

Are you interested in this position? Please apply before 3th of November via our web portal: dtr.taleo.net/careersection/dtr_ext/moresearch.ftl?lang=en