Application and Cloud Architect L10 - Deadline 19/01/26

Design high-level application architecture that is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with modern development practices.

Define application frameworks, component interactions, and integration points.

Evaluate appropriate technologies, platforms, and tools.

Lead the development of architectural blueprints and technical documentation.

Ensure adherence to coding standards, design principles, and security practices.

Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment strategies.

Participate in code reviews and ensure architectural integrity across teams.

Guide development teams through technical decisions and challenges.

Monitor and improve application performance, reliability and scalability.

Identify technical debt and work toward continuous improvement.

Analysis of the integration of different information systems.

Data analysis and data modelling.

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.

Analysis, design and implementations of services and components in a domain driven architecture.

Provision of technical expertise, feasibility/risk/impact analysis and evaluations in relation with information systems.

Act as a senior full stack developer and technical lead. Develop and review code when needed.

Familiar with Agile practices. Willing to help the team mature in Agile driven processes. 

Provision of security assessments and solutions associated with information systems.

Review, evaluate and test applications or (also third party) components to ensure integration with the other application components, and compliance with the requirements and standards.

•        Architecture & Design

•        Very good knowledge of architecture design patterns and enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).

•        Very good knowledge of applications design, including multi-tier applications.

•        Strong experience with transitioning from monolith to microservices architecture.

•        Very good knowledge of microservices and cloud architecture.

•        Relevant and proved experience with event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, and microservice orchestration.

•        Good knowledge of interoperability technologies: web services, message-oriented middleware (MOM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

•        Programming & Development

•        Strong experience with Java (JEE/Jakarta EE), including migrations (Java 8 to Java 21, J2EE to Jakarta EE 8).

•        Strong experience with Spring ecosystem (Spring Framework, Spring Boot).

•        Front-end experience with Angular (2+), ideally latest versions, and modern UI paradigms (client-side scripting, React).

•        Experience in object-oriented design, reusable component design, and UML modelling.

•        Experience with RESTful API design and WS SOAP development (Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA

Suite).

•        Familiarity with XML, XSD, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAXB, WSDL, JAX-RPC.

•        Cloud & Infrastructure

•        Proven experience with cloud-native applications and Containers as a Service (CaaS).

•        Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

•        Strong experience with Docker images and containers.

•        Relevant experience with Vault (secrets management) and Consul (service discovery).

•        Experience with API Gateway and API validation tools (OpenAPI/Swagger).

•        Proved experience with NGINX server.

•        Integration & Messaging

•        Strong practical experience with Kafka.

•        Experience with Message-Oriented Middleware and Enterprise Service Bus technologies.

•        Strong experience with event-driven systems and microservice orchestration.

•        Databases & Persistence

•        Good knowledge of relational DBMS (PostgreSQL and Oracle).

•        Experience with dedicated database per domain and interoperability patterns.

•        Experience with Redis for session and cache management.

•        Experience with Liquibase for database migrations.

•        Familiarity with PL/SQL, SQL, Hibernate, JPA.

•        Testing, Quality & CI/CD

•        Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks: JUnit, DbUnit, ArchUnit, in-memory databases.

•        Experience with automated testing and branch management.

•        Experience with cloud-native CI/CD pipelines.

•        Experience with Jenkins, Sonar, Bitbucket