Senior Solution Architect ~ Strasburg/EU Institution

Senior Solution Architect

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Solution Architect to join a prestigious European Institution. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will play a crucial role in designing the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) tier and ensuring the effective delivery of systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Participating in design sessions with project staff as required

• Building business processes to support orchestration of web services

• Participating in team reviews of design artifacts and code, making changes as required, and recommending alternative solutions where appropriate

• Designing and contributing to the drafting of use cases for new development of systems, enhancement of existing systems, or 3rd party products

• Collaborating with technical and functional teams to ensure effective delivery of systems

• Using software development methodologies and standards as defined by the organization to effectively design systems

• Working with technical teams within the group as well as outside the group to ensure effective delivery

• Following established processes for configuration and release management to ensure that all project artifacts are managed, integrated, and versioned according to standards

To be considered for this position, candidates must meet the following requirements:

• Minimum 9 years of IT professional experience

• 3 years of experience with SOA Platform Architecture and Development

• Very good knowledge and experience in grasping technical requirements and designing suitable architectural solutions in collaboration with stakeholders

• Experience with Linux, UNIX, or AIX Enterprise environment

• Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architectures, with proven experience in designing SOA tiers

• Strong background in systems architecture middleware technologies

• Strong skills in Services Design Best Practices, Service Performance Monitoring, Service Performance Tuning, Service Interface Specifications

• Object-Oriented skills using open architecture standards, best practices, design principles, and techniques related to BPEL, UML, WSDL, JDBC, SQL, XML/XSL, SOAP, Webservices

• Significant knowledge and experience in designing and developing Enterprise Service Bus/SOA/Integration Tier Architecture (BPEL/Business Process Orchestration, Webservices, J2EE)

• Knowledge of SOA Design patterns for building middleware systems from the ground up using Message Routing, Content Enrichment, Message Filtering, Message Transformation, Guaranteed delivery, Message sequencing, Batch message processing, error handling, and reconciliation mechanisms

• Architecture knowledge about Security, Logging, Auditing, Policy Management, and Performance Monitoring and KPI for end-to-end process execution

• Expertise in implementing enterprise architecture standards and methods

• Understanding of network and system architecture