IT Architect

Tasks

• 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 clients;
• Investigate and recommend solutions (including cost benefit analyses, assessment of implementation’s duration); and/or evaluate technical solutions proposed by clients;
• 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-use as 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 client 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 13 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.

Summary of mandatory requirements

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) + Minimum 13 years 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
• Languages: English MANDATORY
• Start: This is a freelance position. We are looking for freelancers that are able to start ASAP

Location

Brussels, Belgium (the consultant must be ready to relocate to Brussels as soon as s/he starts working – it will be from home in Brussels initially till the restrictions are lifted, and then on-site)