Task and Processes components Architect, Brussels (near-site) – MAIA

Position: Task and Processes components Architect.

Location: Near-site (Brussels).

Rate: 480€/day.

Language: Services will be provided in English. Consultants must have at least a C1 level, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Minimum post-secundary education required: At least 5 years of studies attested by a diploma.

Minimum professional experience required: a minimum of 3 years postsecondary professional experience.

Responsibilities:

· Maintain and evolve Compass Corporate components related to task and process management.

· Implement software enhancements, performance improvements and corrective maintenance activities.

· Support the evolution of the legacy environment while extending functionality through new feature development.

· Develop and integrate business functionality according to defined specifications.

· Investigate production incidents and implement sustainable software corrections.

· Refactor existing components and reduce technical debt through modernization activities.

· Optimize application response times and resource utilization.

· Implement and maintain automated unit and integration tests.

· Support deployment preparation and production integration activities.

· Contribute to PI planning, sprint ceremonies and technical backlog refinement.

· Demonstrate delivered functionality and participate in governance and coordination activities.

Specific knowledge, skills and expertise:

Frontend development

· Proficiency in HTML5, Javascript/TypeScript, CSS3 and SASS.

· Proficiency in Angular, including modern concepts like Signals.

· Good knowledge of building complex, modular client-side applications using modern. frameworks, Web Components, micro frontends and state management patterns.

· Experience in Web security, authentication and authorization protocols (OpenID Connect, JWT).

· Experience with responsive and adaptive design.

· Experience with leveraging Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) like AWS CloudFront to optimize asset delivery and improve application performance.

· Understanding key design principles.

· Understanding API integration patterns (consuming REST APIs, error handling, caching strategies).

· Experience with dynamic UI component integration patterns (loading, event communication).

Backend development

· Proficiency in back-end languages (Java) and experience with frameworks (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, Axon).

· Experience with legacy JEE application servers and technology standards and implementations (WebLogic 14, JAXRS, JAXWS, JAXB, EJB, JMS).

· Experience in designing, building, automating, and securing RESTful APIs and web services, including OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.

· Experience with API management technologies (Consul, API Gateways, CAPI Gateway)

· Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS) and experience with deploying and managing applications in a cloud environment.

· Understanding authentication and authorization protocols and standards (e.g., OpenID Connect, JWT, Client/Server Certificate).

· Experience with leveraging AI agent technologies during development but also integrated with applications (MCP, Skills, AmazonQ/Kiro, Spec Driven development, context engineering).

· Experience with workflow engine integration (Activiti, Camunda).

Database & Persistence

· Proficiency in working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, H2DB), including writing complex SQL queries and understanding database design.

· Experience with NoSQL document stores (ElasticSearch, Redis) and understanding of consistency/performance trade-offs.

Architecture

· Experience with cloud-native event-driven micro-service architecture principles and design patterns like CQRS, Saga’s.

· Experience with messaging solutions based on JMS and Kafka.

· Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tolos.

· Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for developing, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications.

DevOps & Infrastructure

· Experience with development and DevSecOps tooling, including version control (Git), Git workflows (GitFlow), and Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab).

· Experience with collaboration tools: issue tracking (Jira) and documentation (Confluence).

· Experience with Observability and Performance Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Elastic APM, Grafana, Prometeus, Zipkin, LogStash, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry).

Testing & Quality Engineering

· Experience with testing practices (unit and integration testing).

· Experience with Code Review practices.

· Experience with quality tools (SonarQube, Fortify).

· Knowledge of front-end testing frameworks and tools for unit and integration testing.

· Experience in using client-side monitoring tools like Dynatrace Real User Monitoring.

· Experience with performance optimization of web applications.