Senior Technical Support

The contract is with a large Consultancy organisation in Brussels to be on an assignment to major European site as follows:- EXPERIENCE AND CAPACITY REQUIRED:

- Must have minimum of 6 to 10 years recent experience and an appropriate knowledge of the current state of the art technical evolution;
- Familiarity with IT projects, preferably in the field of Customs and Taxation business;
- Appropriate experience in at least 2 of the following domains on large projects: system analysis/design, system development, system specification, development life cycle,
- Software testing, operations, telecommunications networking and quality assurance;
- Good communication skills, team worker, rapid self-starting capability and ability to work autonomously are mandatory;
- Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, ease of communication in front of large audience, experience in international/multicultural environment and public administration are assets;

ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE ASSETS:

Experience in. implementation and enforcing of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), experience as a technical writer.

SYSTEMS SPECIFIC:

- Knowledge of the message oriented architecture in general and of the J2EE architecture in particular;
- Knowledge of UML;
- Good knowledge of XML and related standards;
- Experience in development, testing and acceptance cycles;
- Experience in the field of technical documents review against technical specifications; Quality oriented, pragmatic while methodical.

LINGUISTIC SKILLS:- must have English; Some French useful.