Location: Brussels Belgium
Contract Type: Long-term
For one of our clients within an European institution we are currently looking for an IT Web Architect. The candidate will play a key role in the design architecture and implementation of websites and supporting applications. This position ensures that multilingual content can be efficiently published and maintained across Internet platforms while also guaranteeing that solutions meet business technical and quality requirements. The role involves architectural design technical guidance implementation support and coordination across teams to deliver robust secure and scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain the architecture of software systems by defining components that meet functional and technological needs.
- Perform impact analysis to evaluate the effect of new requirements on existing systems and establish priorities.
- Contribute to the implementation of software components.
- Assist in deployment configuration and delivery of systems.
- Monitor development progress and ensure timely delivery of systems and components.
- Manage and implement change requests.
- Capture and translate business needs into actionable tasks for project teams.
- Organize and coordinate workshops ensuring proper project documentation.
- Provide guidance coaching and best practices to developers.
- Ensure websites and applications meet non-functional requirements (quality performance scalability maintainability and security).
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture and software design.
- Proven development experience with frameworks and platforms particularly Java.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (Amazon S3 Lambda SNS CloudWatch EventBridge SQS CloudFront).
- Knowledge of media management (video transcoding encoding formats bitrates codecs resolutions image processing) and delivery optimization best practices.
- Practical experience with media processing tools and services such as AWS Elemental MediaConvert (or alternatives).
- Understanding of asset lifecycle management from ingestion to publishing.
- Experience handling source files generating derivatives (thumbnails proxies) and managing transcoding jobs.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies.
- Strong ability to manage priorities identify risks and opportunities and drive results.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Desired/Additional Skills (Assets)
- Experience with message-oriented middleware (Kafka topics sinks dead-letter queues for stateful job orchestration).
- Advanced development expertise in Java Spring Boot Spring Data and REST APIs.
- Experience with headless CMS platforms (e.g. Strapi).
- Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps concepts and CI/CD pipelines.