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Enterprise Architect at European Commission

Enterprise Architect is needed for a project at the European Commission.

The challenge

• 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 our client’s contractors;
• Make proposals for architecture governance and/or evaluate technical offers from our client’s contractors;
• Investigate and recommend solutions (including cost-benefit analyses, assessment of implementation's duration), and/or evaluate technical solutions proposed by our client’s contractors;
• 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 our client’s architecture;
• Analyse the integration of different information systems and ensure their interoperability;
• Provide advice and consultancy; Participate in brainstorming, meetings and workshops with our client’s, contractors, MS and/or other partners;
• Follow up technology and services evolution in the relevant areas;
• Structure the information in ways that are appropriate to the target audience;
• Produce, review and evaluate technical documents. It includes reviewing technical offers from our client’s contractors;
• Study (or supervise the study of) adequacy and impact of new technology or new versions of COTS/OSS on our client’s systems;
• Report to the official(s) in charge of Architecture.

Skills required

• Design of complex systems, including requirements analysis, identification of alternative solutions and their assessment, technology selection and configuration;
• Technical design of SOA middleware platforms including, but not limited to, web services, web application servers, Enterprise Service Bus, database technologies, message queueing services, XML,
SOAP, REST, messaging patterns, storage and backup services, application infrastructure services and
related domains;
• Knowledge of Oracle COTS (e.g. OAG/AAG, OHS, OSB, OSR, OAM, OIM, OUD, Weblogic, RAC, Dataguard, SOA Suite).
• Service-mindedness and autonomy are required, as well as interpersonal skills, including working in a multicultural environment or public administration, and the ability to report on complex technical issues;
• Demonstrate strong organisational and coordination skills
required;
• Demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills, able to communicate complex technical information in a way that can be understood by non-technical people - required;
• Demonstrate ability to write business cases and/or vision documents, design documents and diagrams, (MPP) planning schedules, notes, presentations, minutes etc. - required;
• Demonstrate the ability to facilitate meetings - required;
• Experience with architecture modelling tools (e.g. ARIS) is an asset;
• Any industry certification in the domain of project management or architecture (e.g. PMBOK, PRINCE2, TOGAF, Archimate) is an asset;
• IT security knowledge or certifications are an asset
• College or University degree required;
• At least 9 years of experience in IT, out of which 4 years of specialised experience as Enterprise Architect

Salary and Conditions

Location: Brussels, BE

Salary up to: 540€/day

Worksite type: On-site only

Contract type: Freelancer or Employee

Client: European Commission

Other points of the offer

The salary/daily rates presented are the maximum as a freelancer when meeting all criteria.
Belgium permanent employment contract is also one option, with salaries around 3000-4000€ net, when meeting all criteria.
Feel free to send us a message to know how much could you get precisely.
You will be hired by an IT consulting company that has a contract with the European Commission, you won't have any contract with the European Commission.

10 - Important

EU Nationality

Enterprise Architecture (>= 4 years)

English (Full professional (C1))

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