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).

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