Description
Senior Analyst Programmer/Developer Coldfusion Java XML
Introduction
The mission of the Directorate General for Competition (DG COMP) is to enable the Commission to make markets deliver more benefits to consumers, businesses and the society as a whole, by protecting competition on the market and fostering a competition culture. We do this through the enforcement of competition rules and through actions aimed at ensuring that regulation takes competition duly into account among other public policy interests. Competition is an indispensable element of a functioning Single Market guaranteeing a level playing field. It contributes to an efficient use of society's scarce resources, technological development and innovation, a better choice of products and services, lower prices, higher quality and greater productivity in the economy as a whole. Therefore, competition contributes to the wider objectives of boosting strong and sustainable growth, competitiveness, employment creation and tackling climate change. Historical evidence suggests that the causal link between effective competition and economic growth is particularly important in times of economic crisis.
DG COMP carries out its mission mainly by taking direct enforcement action against companies or governments when it finds evidence of unlawful behaviour - be it collusion between competitors, abusive behaviour by dominant companies or attempts by government to distort competition by providing disproportionate support for particular companies. It prevents mergers when they would significantly reduce competition. At the same time it helps direct state support more closely to improving competitiveness and/or reducing regional and social disparities and away from aid which distorts competition on the market without any compensating benefit.
Typically this positive kind of state support addresses market failures by public aid to R&D, innovation and risk capital, SME's, environmental protection and training. DG COMP works in partnerships with other policies to support the delivery of other policy objectives in a pro-competitive way at EU and national level. It works in partnership with national competition authorities and national courts to ensure an effective and coherent application of EU competition law, thereby contributing to a level playing field in the Single Market. It promotes the private enforcement of EU competition law. To this end, it also provides guidance and transparency about the competition rules and their enforcement to improve legal certainty for stakeholders. In the international context, it strives to shape global economic governance by strengthening international cooperation in enforcement activities and making steps towards increased convergence of competition policy instruments across different jurisdictions.
The enforcement and development of EU competition policy is based on sound law and economics, drawing on in-depth knowledge of how markets and companies operate. DG COMP channels its limited resources on the most harmful practices in key sectors. It strives to take decisions in a time-frame relevant to the problem and the market concerned and to ensure transparency, due process and predictability for its stakeholders. In this context and pursuing the last year's actions, the Competition DG Information Technology will focus in the future on three strategic lines:
- Competition policy efficiency. The Competition DG will continue to enhance the competition case files transparency and treatment capacity. Enhancement of Case Management Systems, better document management, communication and investigation techniques are part of this objective.
- Internal organisation efficiency. The Competition DG will continue to raise the stage level of the IT tools in order to even better use its staff and financial resources. This includes document management, knowledge management and data warehouse exploitation.
- Security and Continuity. The Competition DG will further develop its security and continuity systems and procedures whenever felt necessary.
Tasks
Competition DG would like to benefit from external services in the context of the eTrustEx1 project.
More specifically in DBMS, application Servers and related tools.
In particular the following services will be provided:
- Participate to requirements analysis, prototyping, definition and integration of technological components; assistance with evaluating and testing products to ensure that they conform to the Commission requirements; technical documentation (in English and/or French).
- Development and maintenance of software components for web-based applications based principally on ColdFusion, Oracle, Flex, JavaScript, HTML.
Required skills
Specific expertise
Required specific expertise:
- ColdFusion for developing Back End components.
- Java technology, J2EE architectures and Java frameworks: Spring, Spring MVC and Hibernate.
- XML, XSLT.
Desirable expertise
Expertise in the following domains would be an asset.
- Java tools and frameworks: Spring Webflow, Activiti workflow, ehCache, JPA, Eclipse.
- SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle
- HTML and JavaScript.
- XPath, XForms.
- Rich user interfaces (Flex, JQuery, or similar).
- RUP (Rational Unified Process) or similar methodology.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- UML (Unified Modeling Language) or equivalent, Case Tools.