Endeavour Recruitment has an first-class opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our multinational client in based in the Hague. Initially this contract will run until the end of 2017, thereafter there will be long term contract renewals during 2018.
The client is paying a daily rate of €625 based on a 40-hour week.
The SA will act as the overall architecture lead for the project, owning the end-to-end definition of the solution for the project across all architecture layers: business, information, application, and infrastructure.
The SA will structure and complete business demand from an architecture perspective, and translate the demand into a viable, feasible, durable, and compliant solution architecture that can be delivered to budget, on time and focusing on a high quality solution.
The SA will be responsible for the production of the Solution Architecture Document for the project, integrating all architecture layers.
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills are essential for this role, as is a fluency in English (both orally and written) A knowledge and understanding of the German and French language will be a great asset.
Essential requirements for the role of Solution Architect:-
A University degree with minimum 8 years hands on experience in defining the architecture of large IT systems.
- Working knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate.
- Previous system development life cycle and development experience (SDLC);
- In depth expertise in the area of systems integration;
- Experience in working in large organisations;
- Knowledge in Business Process Management and Rules engines (for instance JBPM, Drools);
- Experience with UML;
- Experience with similar projects;
- Knowledge in front-end technologies (Javascript, Angular2);
- Deep understanding of authorization mechanisms supporting fine-and coarse-grained authorisation and externalisation of authorisation from business applications (Kerberos and SPNEGO).
- Expert knowledge of J2EE technologies.
- Expert knowledge of REST architectural constraints and development of Restful web services.
- Knowledge of SOAP web services.
- Knowledge in Middle-tier (web-services, web clients, backend of web clients, Java, JBoss).
- Experience with externalising authorisation from Java applications through authorisation engines and/or business rules engines and authentication single sign on with Active Directory.
- Basic knowledge in the following Mainframe software (Z/OS, MVS, OMVS, batch, CICS, MQ Series, DB2, COBOL).
- Experience in the area of data bases, relational and non-sql;
- Ability to create and maintain technical documentation.
Applicants are invited to apply as soon as possible to be included in the shortlist.