Description
The Harvey Nash Group was founded in the UK in 1988, and now has offices throughout Europe, America and Asia. The Harvey Nash Group is known for the thousands of successful assignments completed throughout the world.
From more than 39 offices, and with 5000 staff and associates, we offer a unique range of consulting recruitment specialising in IT recruitment, benefits subcontracting and outsourcing services to our clients.
For one of our clients, located in Brussels, were looking for a Infrastructure & Application Architect
Mission start date February 2013
Mission duration max. 3 years
Mission/function description
Our lcient is looking for an IT-consultant who combines the skills of IT architect with knowledge of security both on the application and infrastructure level. As security is a highly important aspect in the NBB application architecture, the skill set of the candidate may not be limited to in-depth knowledge of common application frameworks and software factory tools but must be complemented with at least general kowledge in secure web-based application designs including web application Firewalls (OWASP-10 virtual patching protection), XML Firewalls, HTTPS mutual authentication, digitally signed messages [PKCS#7, S/MIME, ...) .
His primary mission is to assist our application project managers in the elaboration of their application architecture and help to choose the most appropriate platform/tools. S/He will create the application architectural proposal with special focus on the dataflows going through the different infrastructure components.
S/He will need to have a good understanding of many technical aspects of the IT-industry and be willing to acquire a good knowledge of NBB business needs and strategies. The candidate will need to have excellent communication and redactional skills.
Secondly, s/he will assist the Technology Manager in defining and/or improving the global Reference Architecture. Thirdly, s/he will assist in the (technical) supervision of the application & technical projects to assure that they fit into the architectural principles and that all quality requirements have been taken into account.
Concrete tasks
- Analyse requirements and propose architecture design(s) for differentcomponents/aspects of a project.
- Be a pillar in architecture in close collaboration with teammembers.
- Able to solve architectural issues within the current architecture or by changing the architecture with minimal impact.
- (Co-develop )
- Coach teammembers in the used frameworks, agile methods, overall architecture principles and guidelines as used in project architecture
- Guard that the architecture is implemented as expected
- The candidate will prove his high level of skills and great reliability.
Languages
- Active knowledge of Dutch - French and/or English.
- Good redactional skills including English.
General profile
- Creative and independent spirit
- Teamplayer with excellent communication skills. Able to collaborate with peers in other domains like networking, databases, security, business, infrastructure
- Result driven
- Strong analysis and design skills
- Good understanding of many technical aspects of the IT industry
- Cross-domain knowledge with ability to go deep when needed.
- Pragmatic and common sense architect providing added value to IT and business
- Knows how to tackle complexity in an efficient and cost-effective way
- Being able to introduce agile methods in a project team like testdriven development, continuous integration, refactoring.
Technical knowledge
- Not limited to application coding/architecture but at least general knowledge of the interaction with infrastructure components like web application Firewalls, load balancers, .....
- Integration between WEB security products (WAM,..) and applications;
- On hands experience with architecture and design patterns and common good practices
- Experience with application development
- J2SE/J2EE 5 experience and having the spirit of Open Source tools and libraries
- Knowledge of enterprise service bus and business process modelling.
- Experience into finding the good granularity of shared services in a SOA architecture
- has knowledge of standards and their acceptance by products.
- Application Servers (more specific Tomcat, WebSphere, GlassFish)
- EAI/B2B/ESB technologies
- Java Frameworks: Spring portfolio, JPA (Hibernate), JSF, JUnit
- Experience with relational database and O/R mapping. (by preference Oracle).
- The role of Business Intelligence in application projects;