Senior Architect (European Commission)

For one of our clients at the European Commission, we are looking for a Senior Architect with strong expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and Angular 14+ to design and oversee the implementation of complex web applications. The role involves defining the technical architecture, ensuring code quality, and providing technical guidance to development teams within a European institutional environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Design scalable and maintainable application architecture.
• Define frameworks, components, and integration points.
• Evaluate technologies and lead technical documentation.
• Ensure coding standards, security, and best practices.
• Collaborate on CI/CD, containerization, and cloud deployments.
• Lead code reviews, guide teams, and resolve technical challenges.
• Monitor and optimize performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Manage technical debt and continuous improvement.
• Perform system integration, data analysis, and modelling.
• Participate in technical meetings, testing, deployment, and reporting.
• Design and implement services in a domain-driven architecture.
• Provide technical expertise, feasibility, risk, and impact analyses.
• Act as senior full-stack developer and technical lead when needed.
• Support Agile practices and team maturity.
• Conduct security assessments and solutions.
• Review and test applications/components for compliance and integration.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Architecture design: patterns, enterprise frameworks (TOGAF), multi‑tier application design.
• Microservices: event‑driven architecture, eventual consistency, migration from monoliths.
• Cloud‑native applications: design of containerized, orchestrated, scalable solutions.
• Java/JEE: expertise with Spring Boot and Java version migrations.
• Angular 2+: modern UI development (preferably Angular 18).
• Cloud DevSecOps: IaC, Docker, Consul, Vault, OAuth2/OpenID Connect.
• Cloud and container services: orchestration, CaaS, cloud infrastructure management.
• Architecture governance: design reviews, decision enforcement, architecture‑as‑code.
• Observability & monitoring: Dynatrace, ElasticSearch, Grafana.