Senior Application Architect

We are looking for an Application Architect specialized in back-end web development

Tasks

• Design and development of web-based applications
• Elaboration of functional and non-functional requirements, drafting of analysis deliverables, UML modelling
• Design, implementation, testing and maintenance of software components for web-based applications
• Migration and updates of web applications
• Design and development of architecture components and building blocks
• Review of the architecture of existing systems
• Architecture and design of information systems
• Participate to requirements analysis, prototyping, definition, and integration of technological components
• Production of software architecture documents
• Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users
• Provision of expert advice and assistance, technology watch, architectural considerations, applicable standards, solution patterns and best practices with Java Enterprise & front-end technologies, enterprise & web content management, XML, interoperability, multi-device development etc.

Education & Technical Experience

• Level of education corresponding to a master’s level (or 5 years of higher education)
• A minimum number of years of professional experience of 11 years (or 15 in case of bachelor)
• 10+ years expertise working in back-end web development
• Capability to write clear and structured technical documents.
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills.
• Exceptional problem solving and ability to work independently
• Exceptional learning skills
• Capability of integration in an international/multi-cultural environment.

Specific expertise

• Excellent Java knowledge and programming experience with Spring Boot 2
• Java EE7 or higher and J2EE architectures.
• Java frameworks: Spring 4.x, Spring Integration, Spring data 1.13.x, Spring Security.
• Experience with AOP
• Experience building RESTful Web Services
• Experience with JPA / Hibernate / Spring Data
• Experience with JMS
• Experience with Oracle Relational Databases
• TDD/BDD experience
• Experience with server-side architecture and design patterns
• Awareness of server-side performance considerations / multi-threading
• Solid understanding and extensive experience with Git version control tool

Desirable expertise

• Experience working with Docker
• Experience developing REST APIs
• Experience with level 2 Hibernate caching
• Experience with Distributed Caching in Spring Boot (e.g Hazelcast)
• UML modelling

Summary of mandatory requirements

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree + Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in domain (including 10+ years expertise working in back-end web development) OR Master’s degree + Minimum 11 years of relevant experience in domain (including 10+ years expertise working in back-end web development)
• Languages: English
• Start: This is a freelance position. We are looking for freelancers that are able to start ASAP.

Location

Brussels, Belgium (remote work is allowed but only from Belgium and on-site work will be required)