European Citizens, ONLY
The position is full-time remote in a near-site mode. (Brussels, no more than 2 hours of distance).
Contract:
- Initial contract duration: 100 days (Project duration: 1100 days)
Minimum requirements to qualify for the interview:
- Your CV in English language
- Your skills must correspond to the current position
- Experience in collaborating efficiently and politely with colleagues remotely
- Must have EU citizenship, permanent residency, or EU Blue Card (client will NOT sponsor) and be able to establish as a freelancer within the EU.
TASKS
- Development and integration of technological components.
- Implementation of user requirements.
- Prototyping.
- Elaboration of test programs.
- Integration with other applications.
- Writing of technical documentation.
- Assistance with deployment and configuration of the system.
- Participation in meetings with the project teams.
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
- A bachelor’s level or 3 years of higher education
SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGIES
- In depth knowledge of, and experience with Spring, including Core, JPA/Hibernate, Security and MVC.
- In depth knowledge and skills on using Continuing Development / Continuing Integration techniques, knowledge of source code control repositories (GIT/Bitbucket) and build tools such as Maven and Gradle.
- In depth knowledge of, and experience with, Spring Boot Test, jUnit and Mockito
- Good knowledge and experience working with of source code control repositories such as Maven, GIT, SVN, TFS.
- Good knowledge and experience working with Angular and NPM
- Good knowledge and experience working with Hibernate/JPA
- Knowledge of, and experience with Oracle (versions 8+) or MySQL (versions 5+)
- Knowledge of REST, SOAP and Spring Web Services.
- Experience working with the Atlassian Suite, JIRA Confluence Bitbucket and bambooKnowledge of modern security frameworks/protocols such as JWT, JWE, JWKS, OIDC and CAS is an asset
- Knowledge of encryption and signing is an asset
- Knowledge of API Gateways such as WSO2 and Spring Cloud Gateway or Eureka/Zuul is an asset
- Knowledge of DevSecOps is an asset
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker or AWS is an asset
- Knowledge of Web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, WAI-ARIA) is an asset
- Good understanding of UX design best practises, in particular responsive and mobile-first design, is an asset.
- Knowledge and experience working with other Javascript frameworks is an asset (JQuery, NGRX, React, Knockout.js…)
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- In depth knowledge of HTML 5 and CSS 3
- In depth knowledge of Java 8 and Java 11. Java 17 and above are plus.
- In depth knowledge of Relational DBMS
- Good knowledge of Agile principles
- Good knowledge of design principles such as SOLID, IDEALS and CQRS. SAGA is a plus.
- Good knowledge of interoperability technology (REST, Service Oriented Architecture, web services, message-oriented middleware, service-oriented bus).
- Knowledge of UML, in particular use case diagrams, state transition and activity diagrams.
- Capability to write clear and structured technical documents
- Ability to give business and technical presentations.
- Ability to apply high quality standards
- Analysis and problem-solving skills
- Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in application architecture and design
Due to the particular nature of a large international organisation such as the European
Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:
- Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability, and experience in working in a team.
- Ability to participate in multilingual meetings.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects.
- Excellent Team Player
- Ability to understand, speak, and write English C1 is mandatory
- Ability to understand, speak, and write French B1 will be an advantage.
- High degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications managed and maintained in SG contain personal and confidential data5.
APPLICABLE SECURITY PROCEDURES
- All non-EU external service providers, who may have access either to EC premises or to EC network, are subject of security screening by Commission’s security directorate (HR.DS) before specific contract signature to assess risks vis-à-vis Commission’s sensitive non-classified information.
