Urgent need for an experienced Enterprise Architect!

A financial client in Luxembourg is looking for a bilingual Enterprise Architect to join them ASAP, and initially till the end of 2021, with strong likelihood of extensions.

The role of the Enterprise Architect will be to contribute to the elaboration and evolution of architectures, including Business, Data, Application and Technical layers with a functional focus.

You will be involved in all strategic projects, and work together with Business Process team, Functional Analysts and IT Experts to design flexible, scalable and robust overall architectures.

Requiredtechnical skills and knowledge:

• Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Economics or Finance management (BAC + 5)
• Strong Technological background (Frontend, Java, Spring, Microservice and API);
• Mastering EA modeling languages (such as UML or Archimate);
  • Functional knowledge in banking industry is an asset;
• T24 knowledge is an asset;
• Fluent in English and French.

If this sounds like you, apply without delay and send us your CV or get in touch for more info.

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new contract opportunity for a Solution Architect to work for a large client in the Public Sector in Rijswijk, Netherlands. The duration for this role is initially 3 months and the all-inclusive daily rate is €550.

Required Skills:

• Computer Science Degree or equivalent experience and you have minimum 5 years of experience in the IT sector including 2 years in IT architecture design.
• Speak fluent English.
• Must have experience with Archimate.
• You have concrete experience in software development and application support
• You have excellent architecture and design skills
• You have sound experience in technical architecture design
• You have a good knowledge of the SOA paradigm (SOA principles/SOA Governance/ SOA Design Patterns)
• You have an excellent knowledge of the JEE platform
• You have a good knowledge of UI/UX processes technologies (AngularJS, CSS, HTML, Web Components)
• You have good knowledge of at least one Application Server (Weblogic, JBoss)
• You have good knowledge of at least one Enterprise Service Bus (OSB, ServiceMix)
• You have good knowledge of at least one RDBMS (Oracle Database, IBM DB2)
• You have good knowledge of development methodologies (RUP, Scrum)
• You have good experience of Spring, Hibernate and JPA frameworks
• You have a global experience in Networking, application integration and PKI’s databases
• You have experience of complex integrated systems engineering projects in the public sector

If you are a flexible, pro-active and eager person wanting to enhance your career and join a large client in the public sector do not hesitate to  apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect.  There are three contracts available.  French speaking is not essential but advantageous.  At least 10 years’ experience as a Solution Architect is essential.  Excellent rate of €550-€600 EUR per day.

The technical skills required for this role are:

• Web Architecture:  Angular, Ionic, Apache Camel, Portal Architecture, Authentication/authorisation protocols (OpenID Connect, OAuth2)
• Middleware Technologies (ESB API Gateway)
• PaaS Technologies
• RDBMS and NoSQL, HDFS
• Network Knowledge:  LANs, Firewall and Filtering policies
• Modelling Techniques:  UML, Archimate in Enterprise Architect Tool

Advantageous Skills:

• Agile including Scaled Agile Framework such as SAFe and DevOps
• Experience with Offshore Development
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability and willingness to learn new information quickly

If you believe you have the right experience and previous track record to successfully deliver in this role, then please apply quickly in order to be shortlisted.  

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent new opportunity for a Software Container Platform Specialist to work for a large European organisation in The Hague, Netherlands. This duration of this role is initially 3 months with a possibility of extension.

Required knowledge and skills:

• You must have a university degree.
• Expert knowledge of Software container technologies and orchestration frameworks (especially Kubernetes).
• Expert knowledge of Docker.
• Expert knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices.
• Expert knowledge of Microservice Architecture.
• Experience with JEE-based middle tier applications and JBoss deployments.
• Knowledge of infrastructural and application security (e.g. Kerberos)
• Knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate.
• Knowledge of ITIL v3.
• Ability to create and maintain technical documentation.
• Must have a very good level of English (oral and written).

•     Good Communication skills, interpersonal skills and analytical skills.

Expected Tasks:

• Support the members of the aforementioned project in building up their knowledge and experience in the area of Software container-enabled and orchestrated platforms.
• Engage with the various stakeholders in the software development, continuous integration and deployment, test and SDLC process domains to understand the current state.
• Organize additional meetings or workshops with key stakeholders in order to outline the requirements for the future state of the common build and deployment platform further, especially with regards to the identification of benefits provided through containerization.
• Structure and complete business demand from an architecture perspective, and translate these demands into a viable, feasible, durable, and compliant target state solution architecture for the build and deployment platform (where applicable).
• Support the project managers/technical project managers in delivering a result that adheres to the principles, policies and patterns established in the enterprise architecture.
• Adhere where appropriate to the overall Enterprise Architecture through the delivery of solutions, solution architectures and models, design patterns, principles, models, requirements, standards and policies of EA and/or security.
• Interface with the Design Authority and Security, Architecture and Innovation in the context of roadmaps for architectural changes and capability platform strategies.
• Interface with the Service Operations in the context of understanding the implications of a potential migration to a container platform from an operations perspective for production support.
• Determine the potential impact of industry and market trends in the respective area, and include recommendations for further strategic changes and improvements.

If you believe you are the right candidate for this role then please do not hesitate to apply with a copy of your most recent CV.

Endeavour Recruitment has a FANTASTIC opportunity  for an experienced Functional Analyst.

You will understand and apply the concepts of incremental and interactive development.

Knowledge of Archimate is an advantage. Working in an agile context. 

Primary responsibilities will be to:

• Transform business requirements in functional requirements. Taking into account functional and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security and usability)
• Providing high level technical impact during the proposal stage
• Perform functional analysis of information systems and draws up the functional design
• Responsible for the technical design within the framework of architecture, standards and criteria.
• Responsible for qualitative hand-over to and support of the development team
• Review and monitor the design and development deliverables
• Support changes and enhancements from design & development through production including (automated) testing.
• Contribute to the drawing up and management of the planning for analysis and design phase.
• Consult on development and updating of training materials and user manuals and prepare documentation for implemented products/processes.

Required certification and experience:

• Knowledge of financial services (banking and insurances)
• Data modelling (relational and logical)
• Analysis of the business context (AS IS and TO BE)
• Apply architecture principles and standards
• Functional modelling including documentation
• Model storming
• Define user stories
• Structured and convincing communication skills You have the analytical skills to understand our E2E business processes
• Incremental and interactive design & development
• Define a technical plan that describes how the system will be built to meet the functional design
• Performance skills
• Define impact and dependencies
• Agile testing
• Define input for planning : workload estimations, risks, ...
• Coordination & coaching skills towards developers
• Use interview techniques
• You share your experience in the design community.

Please apply for further detail on this excellent contract opportunity!

Endeavour Recruitment is looking for an experienced a Business Analyst to work for a renowned global organisation.

Candidates should have at least 6 years’ experience in a similar role, With expertise in the pharmaceutical or medical sector .

 This is a 12 month contract + extensions.

 Scope:

 Liaise closely with all the project stakeholders, including business owners, end users, project managers, and enterprise and solution architects.

• Assist business owners with articulating vision and writing business cases.
• Perform stakeholder analysis and assist strategic stakeholders in defining business needs.
• Model, document, analyse, and propose improvements to business processes and data models.
• Requirements gathering, review of business requests, verification and validation, ensuring proper documentation and traceability.
• Support business owners and project managers in the prioritisation of requirements.
• Assist in writing test cases and contribute to testing in different stages.
• Create and maintain technical and user documentation.
• Prepare and Conduct User Training.
• Prepare contents of feasibility and related studies for IT and non-IT projects.
• Conduct peer reviews of studies and requirements specifications.

 Essential Skills:

Minimum 2 years of business requirements analysis for complex and scientific applications.

• Experience with requirements engineering, developing use cases and drafting user interfaces.
• Extensive experience in process mapping, workflow process analysis and process reengineering.
• Proven experience in facilitating meetings, scheduling and time management.
• Experience with UML, BPMN and CASE tools, Sparx Enterprise Architect and ArchiMate.
• Certifications would be a strong advantage.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical/public health.
• Experience in working in a Scrum and CMMI-DEV development environment.
• Experience in Business data modelling.
• Extensive experience in modelling software techniques and business and functional requirements.
• Proven experience in coordinating with technical, functional and business users.
• Ability to interpret and understand complex business requirements and procedures.
• Excellent team player, but also able to work independently.
• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment.
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English

 Desirable:

• Experience with MS Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Experience with K2

 If you feel you have the skills to flourish in this role, then please send over a copy of your most up to date CV.

Endeavour Recruitment is looking for an experienced a Business Analyst to work for a renowned global organisation.

Candidates should have at least 6 years’ experience in a similar role, With expertise in the pharmaceutical or medical sector .

 This is a 12 month contract + extensions.

 Scope:

 Liaise closely with all the project stakeholders, including business owners, end users, project managers, and enterprise and solution architects.

• Assist business owners with articulating vision and writing business cases.
• Perform stakeholder analysis and assist strategic stakeholders in defining business needs.
• Model, document, analyse, and propose improvements to business processes and data models.
• Requirements gathering, review of business requests, verification and validation, ensuring proper documentation and traceability.
• Support business owners and project managers in the prioritisation of requirements.
• Assist in writing test cases and contribute to testing in different stages.
• Create and maintain technical and user documentation.
• Prepare and Conduct User Training.
• Prepare contents of feasibility and related studies for IT and non-IT projects.
• Conduct peer reviews of studies and requirements specifications.

 Essential Skills:

Minimum 2 years of business requirements analysis for complex and scientific applications.

• Experience with requirements engineering, developing use cases and drafting user interfaces.
• Extensive experience in process mapping, workflow process analysis and process reengineering.
• Proven experience in facilitating meetings, scheduling and time management.
• Experience with UML, BPMN and CASE tools, Sparx Enterprise Architect and ArchiMate.
• Certifications would be a strong advantage.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical/public health.
• Experience in working in a Scrum and CMMI-DEV development environment.
• Experience in Business data modelling.
• Extensive experience in modelling software techniques and business and functional requirements.
• Proven experience in coordinating with technical, functional and business users.
• Ability to interpret and understand complex business requirements and procedures.
• Excellent team player, but also able to work independently.
• Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment.
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English

 Desirable:

• Experience with MS Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Experience with K2

 If you feel you have the skills to flourish in this role, then please send over a copy of your most up to date CV.

Are you an experienced Web architect looking for your next challenge?

Endeavour has an exciting new contract opportunity for a talented Web Architect, to join a large European Organisation for a 2 months contract in the Hague.

Required skills and experience:

• Experienced in web architecture/implementation of open source java technologies:

-          Angular 2, Spring, JBoss EAP, Maven

-          Java J2EE/J2SE (StAX, JAX-RS, JAX-WS, JAXM, Java/Javascript, etc...)

-          Linux/SUSE

-          Apache (Camel, CXF, FOP, POI, Hibernate, PDFBox, etc...)

• Experience in Continuous Integration/ SDLC in a web-based application implementation
• Experience in Functional/Technical Design, Interface Specification documentation
• Knowledge in XML,XSL,DTD,WSDL,SOAP,...
• Knowledge in secure web application implementation is a plus
• Knowledge in API Management integration is a plus
• Knowledge in Archimate is a plus
• Experience in Drools/jBPM or equivalent open-source business engine is a plus
• Cloud experience is a plus

Please apply for further information on this fantastic contract role.