Application & Cloud Architect – Hybrid Europeans Full Time Contract by Employer

We currently have a vacancy for an Application & Cloud Architect fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the companys premises or on-site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated with the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major clients IT team on site.

Your tasks

• Design high-level application architecture that is scalable, maintainable, and aligned with modern development practices;
• Define application frameworks, component interactions, and integration points;
• 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;
• Monitor and improve application performance, reliability and scalability;
• 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;
• Develop and review code when needed;
• Assistance during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation and reporting.

Requirements

• University degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 16 years;
• At least 10 years of experience with Architecture Design. Including experience with architecture design patterns, enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), and multi-tier application design;
• At least 10 years of experience with Micro-services. Including microservices design, event-driven architecture, eventual consistency, and transitioning from monolith to microservices;
• At least 10 years of experience with Cloud Native applications. Design and development of cloud-native solutions leveraging containerization, orchestration, and scalable cloud services;
• At least 10 years of experience with Java/JEE. Specifically, Java frameworks including Spring Boot; migrations across Java versions;
• At least 5 years of experience with Angular 2 plus. Experience with Angular 2+ (preferably Angular 18), modern UI paradigms, and client-side scripting;
• At least 5 years of experience with Cloud DevSecOps. Specifically, Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker), service discovery (Consul), secrets management (Vault), and security frameworks (OAuth2, OpenID Connect);
• At least 5 years of experience with Cloud & Container Services. Specifically with container orchestration, CaaS, and cloud infrastructure management;
• At least 5 years of experience with Architecture Enforcement & Review. Enforcing architectural decisions at the pull request level and implementing architecture-as-code practices;
• At least 5 years of experience with Observability/Monitoring Tools. Use of Dynatrace, ElasticSearch, and Grafana for performance monitoring and logging.
• Experience with unit and integration testing frameworks;
• Experience with cloud-native CI/CD pipelines;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Benefits

If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English.

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.