Description
**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).