Horizontal activities, tooling, documentation and support Architect, remote (EU) – MAIA

Position: Horizontal activities, tooling, documentation and support Architect.

Location: Remote (EU).

Rate: The rate offered depends on the candidate’s level, in accordance with the Commission’s public grading system and the ubication of the candidate. Further details are available upon discussion.

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:

· Develop and maintain back-office tooling supporting business migrations, specifically for Grants and Experts domains.

· Deliver monitoring, testing and scripting tools to improve platform stability and operational efficiency.

· Support business developers in implementing Compass Corporate components within their processes.

· Produce and maintain up-to-date technical documentation.

· Provide 3rd-level technical support and investigate complex technical issues.

· Perform migration, development, testing, maintenance and documentation activities.

· Analyze incidents, develop fixes and contribute to platform reliability improvements.

· Implement automation, performance optimization and technical remediation activities.

· Prepare deployment artefacts and support production integration activities.

· Participate in PI planning, sprint activities, technical refinement sessions and stakeholder demonstrations.

· Contribute to technical governance, coordination meetings and decision tracking.

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).