Senior Application ArchitectWe are looking for a Senior Application Architect for an initial 6 month contract based in Brussels, Belgium. The chosen candidate will join a successful and ever growing team, and will be part of a major project.DESCRIPTION OF TASKSThe person who will fill in the position will need to work inside a team composed of different profiles, with an internal development team and also with business user groups, so we need a good communicator/negotiator. The main related tasks to this position are the following: - Architecture and design of information systems.- Review of the architecture of existing systems- Analysis of the integration of different information systems- Analysis, design and implementations of services and composites in SOA context (BPMN, Activiti, SCA)- Production of software architecture documents, design and analysis models, implementation models- Follow up of the data analysis and data modelling.- Coordination of the implementation of the technical architecture- Help to deployment of the components, help to configuration management- Documentation of the technical implementations and the composites- Evaluate and test technical components delivered by other teams to ensure that they conform to requirements and methodology- Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users- Assistance in the testing, the technical documentation, the deployment, the evaluation and the reporting- Depending on the circumstances, the expert may be requested to provide assistance or support in the resolution of production issues.WORK ENVIRONMENT/CONDITIONS- In depth knowledge of information systems- In depth knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g RUP, Scrum)- Experience of Workflow applications- Experience with relational databases- Experience in complex UI interface development- Ability to apply high quality standards to all tasks.- Good reporting methods.- Capacity in writing and presenting studies, to give presentations about the project.- Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, good communication skills.- Capability of integration in an international/multi-cultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in team working.The necessary experience and technical skills to perform the service are- Experienced with WS SOAP development on Oracle Web Logic application server- Experienced with Oracle middleware products (SOA Suite)- Experienced with standards/APIs: XSD, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAXB (possibly also JAX-RPC)- JEE 6 environment and standards, EJB3, JMS- Experienced with development quality standars: jUnit, Sonar, Jenkins- jQuery, Angular JS / 2 / 4- Experienced with tools: Eclipse/Workshop 10.3, Maven, SoapUIIf interested, please get in touch for more details McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.