Java Architect

Talent Quanta is a specialised recruitment and talent solutions firm supporting leading organisations across Europe in delivering high-impact technology and innovation projects.  

For this assignment, we are seeking a Java Architect to provide expert services based in Brussels, Belgium. The selected professional will operate within a structured and collaborative environment, contributing to strategic IT and digital initiatives for prominent industry stakeholders.  

Our consultants are typically integrated into client teams and work closely with key business and technical counterparts, ensuring operational excellence, technical robustness, and long-term value creation.  

At Talent Quanta, we combine deep market expertise with a rigorous selection methodology to match highly qualified professionals with complex, mission-critical environments. We act as a trusted partner to both our clients and our experts, fostering sustainable and performance-driven collaborations.

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Key Responsibilities

• Propose and document the architecture for the team, in alignment with the technical constraints of reuse of existing components and building blocks;

• Ensure alignment between the business needs and the architecture of the solution, through documentation, presentations and workshops with the relevant stakeholders;

• Review all technical analysis performed by the IT external development company, support the Project manager on the decisions to take, and provide feedback on the estimates;

• Support the Project Manager in all decisions related to IT developments and change of architecture;

• Risk and issue analysis, propose mitigation paths;

• Interaction with other architects, business analysts, business owners, project manager, external development company.

Required Expertise

• University degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 17 years of relevant working experience;

• At least 10 years of expertise in Java development;

• At least 5 years of expertise in UML modelling (diagrams);

• At least 5 years of specific expertise in EC corporate components of architecture (EU Login, EU Send, …);

• Extensive experience of IT developments and IT architecture ;

• knowledge of microservices and architecture in the cloud;

• Good knowledge of Enterprise Architecture;

• Good knowledge of Relational DBMS;

• Good knowledge of business process analysis;

• Knowledge of interoperability technology (web services, message oriented middleware, service oriented bus, event architecture);

• Ability to draft, improve and document architecture decisions, propose several solutions with pros, cons and risks;

• Excellent command of the English language.

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