Application Architect (0504, L4)

Job Introduction

Serco is a specialist at delivering vital services on behalf of European, National and Local Governments.

Serco Europe employ’s a large workforce in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions throughout Europe. 

For one of our Customer, a European Institution we are looking for an Application Architect with​ at least 11 years of relevant work experience. 

Role Responsibility

DESCRIPTION OF TASKS

The consultant will be expected to contribute to all the tasks listed below:

1. Analyse change requests, assess impact on components and/or overall architecture and identify alternative solutions;

2. Design and develop new tools and web applications according to requirements;

3. Provide programming support for the existing Java/Tomcat components and applications;

4. Prepare test plans and support the execution of unit, integration, and system testing;

5. Integrate results in the EMM platforms;

6. Produce technical documentation.

Successful Candidate

REQUIREMENTS, WORK ENVIRONMENT AND CONDITIONS

We seek an experienced Application Architect with extensive Java programming language knowledge and experience in Web applications and

Web services design and development.

Specific expertise

In-depth knowledge of:

• Java programming language including: I/O, concurrency, localization.

• ECMAScript (being able to program JavaScript code even without libraries or frameworks).

• Main JavaScript frameworks (JQuery, D3.js, Angular, ExtJS).

• Applications design including usage of templating systems like Bootstrap.

• AJAX connections.

• Tomcat servlet container including: installation, maintenance, finetuning and web application design.

• Service Oriented Architectures (REST).

• XML, XSL including Java libraries to parse and transform XML.

• JSON including Java libraries to parse and serialize data.

• Relational DBMS programming including SQL and JDBC.

• Versioning systems.

• Testing.

• HTML5, CSS3 and/or SCSS.

• Modelling tools.

Good knowledge of:

• Internet protocols including: HTTP, TCP/IP.

• MS Windows Server OS.

• Web application development without J2EE frameworks (only servlet container).

• Authentication protocols.

• Relational DBMS including MySQL and/or SQLite and/or PostgreSQL.

• Versioning system tools like Git.

• Business process analysis.

General skills

• Very Good knowledge of English;

Optional skills

• Experience with Text Mining tools and techniques.

• Knowledge of additional languages, besides English.

• Knowledge of additional programming languages (e.g. Python, Objective C, etc.) frameworks (e.g.: Typescript, ReactJS, Node.js).

• Experience with LDAP and/or MS Active Directory.

• Index technologies like Lucene, Solr, Elastic search, etc.

Work environment

The tasks will be performed at the JRC Ispra premises.

Conditions

Regular weekly meetings to discuss progress with the JRC technical responsible.

Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

Data Protection:

When creating a profile on the Serco Career Centre you agreed to the Data Protection policy, a copy is available upon request.

You may submit a written request revoking your consent to this agreement at any time.

Package Description

Full details on application - Relocation assistance provided, if applicable.

Please note that this position is also open to freelancers (independent contractors).

About the Company

Serco’s heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Top 50 Services for Governments Companies.

What connects the ever growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service – To keep ahead we have to constantly evolve and enhance the way we deliver our services and everyone in Serco has a role to play here.

Serco provide the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

If you share our values then join with over 50,000 colleagues globally who are equally as passionate about delivering great service as you.

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