IT Architect

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IT Architect

I am seeking an IT Architect to join the team for a long term contract assignment on a customer project in Brussels. The project may require some remote working to start with but you will be expected to work on-site once Covid restrictions are lifted.

Role Description

Propose systems, components and/or services architecture (e.g. SOA, ESB, MDM, legacy, framework, security),COTS software products, standards and/or evaluate technical offers from agency contractors;

Make proposals for architecture setup and/or evaluate technical offers from agency contractors;

Investigate and recommend solutions (including cost benefit analyses, assessment of implementation’s duration);and/or evaluate technical solutions proposed by agency contractors;

Understand, apply and suggest improvements of agency methodology, security policies, tools, best practices, etc.;

Support projects by designing services and components (or supervising contractors’ design), encouraging re-useas well as committing that the design of the system will fulfil the system’s requirements, in particular non-functional requirements (volume, scalability, confidentiality, integrity, availability, business continuity and disaster recovery planning);

Ensure that the systems’, components’ and/or services’ design is consistent with DG TAXUD architecture (e.g.consistency with an agency framework);

Analyse the integration of different information systems and ensure their interoperability;

Identifies and anticipates design flaws not overseen by the development teams;

Produce and/or review documents; follow-up document revision with an eye on systems and applications architecture;

Provide suggestions for service or methodology improvements; escalate issues, in particular the ones with potential impacts on interoperability;

Qualifications

Minimum 3 years of higher education (Bachelor Degree or equivalent) & minimum 11 years of IT experience of IT experience in the IT Systems architecture/design, processes and projects, matured in a complex and structured organization with outsourced services proved by practical hands-on activities;

Strong ability for analysis, comparison and summary; strong capability for writing and presenting clear documents;

Recent practical experience in IT systems architecture and design;

Capability for specification of components, data and services;

Capability for specification of service interfaces, service data and reference models;

Good knowledge of interoperability technology ( e.g. web services, message oriented middleware, service oriented bus);

Proven multiyear experience with Oracle Database and SOA technologies (Oracle FUSION) is required;

Prior experience with SAS technologies is required

Good knowledge of service implementation patterns (synchronous, asynchronous, request/response, etc.),distributed system design and messaging layer;

Experience in architecture modelling;

Deep technical knowledge of IT technology;

Hands-on experience with network security architecture will be an advantage