Location: Remote- (the consultant should be able to present to the contracting authority's premises (Brussels) up to 5 days per quarter and within 7 days from the day that the contracting authority will contact the consultant)

client: DG SG (https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/secretariat-general_en)

client's premises: Brussels, BELGIUM

Job Responsibilities

• Architecture and design of information systems.
• Review of the architecture of existing systems.
• Design and development of architecture components and building blocks.
• Analysis of the integration of different information systems.
• Data analysis and data modelling.
• Coordination of the implementation of the technical architecture.
• Technical interface between the project leaders and the developers.
• Production of software architecture documents.
• Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users.
• Assistance during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation and reporting.

Job Requirements

Technical Skills

• Good knowledge of Java and Javascript
• Good knowledge of Spring and Hibernate
• Experience working with Microservices
• Experience working with the Atlassian Suite, JIRA Confluence Bitbucket and Bamboo
• Experience working with Angular
• Experience working with Oracle and Weblogic
• Knowledge of web application architecture and design.
• Knowledge of UML, and ability to use a variety of design tools.
• Knowledge of Java design patterns. GOF, and new patterns like Broker, Event Bus, Micro-services, CQRS, Event Driven, or Event sourcing.
• Understanding of old, and modern development JAVA and JavaScript frameworks.
• Knowledge of Java 6 / Java 7 / Java 8, Spring Core and dependency injection.
• Knowledge of internals of Spring Boot Auto-configuration system. Ability to prototype custom starters based on corporate systems, or technical extensions.
• Knowledge of data modelling for SQL and NOSQL databases.
• Knowledge of Elastic Search, with or without Spring Data Elastic Search.
• Knowledge of REST principles and frameworks like Spring Data REST and Jersey.
• Knowledge of SOAP and Spring Web Services.
• Knowledge of Jackson or Gson.
• In-depth experience working with Spring Security, OAUTH2, JSON Web tokens (JWT), and identity management products like KeyCloack would be desirable.
• Basic knowledge of Aspose for Java would be desirable.
• Knowledge of unit testing with Junit and Spring Test. Hamcrest and Mockito probed experience.
• Knowledge of integration testing with Spring with MockMVC Test and JsonPath.
• Knowledge of Spring REST Docs, Spring REST Auto Docs, and AsciiDoc.
• Knowledge of JavaScript package managers and module bundlers like npm yarn, jspm, or Webpack or would be desirable. Basic knowledge of Gulp (Or Grunt).
• Knowledge of ECMAScript 2015 2018.
• Knowledge of unit testing with Jasmine or Mocha
• Knowledge of Agile principles.
• Knowledge of SVN and GIT.
• Ability to code proof of concepts (Including client side) based on use cases.
• Ability to debug and fix complex issues in client and server sides of a web application.
• Ability to visualize complex issues.

Non Technical Skills

• Analytic and creative problem solving
• Good redaction skills.
• Ability to give technical presentations.
• Ability to apply high quality standards.
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in application architecture and design.
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills.
• Capability of integration in an international/multi-cultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team.