
Workflow Management Architect, Brussels (near-site) – MAIA
**Workflow Management Architect, Brussels (near-site) -- MAIA**
**Position:**Workflow Management Architect.
**Location:** Near-site (Brussels).
**Rate:** 480€/day.
**Language:** Services will be provided in English. Consultants must have at least a C1 level, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
**Minimum post-secundary education required:** At least 5 years of studies attested by a diploma.
**Minimum professional experience required:**a minimum of 3 years postsecondary professional experience.
**Responsibilities:**
· Maintain and evolve the existing workflow engines Activiti and Camunda, ensuring operational stability and continuity.
· Implement functional enhancements, technical migrations, performance improvements and corrective changes related to workflow management components.
· Ensure backward compatibility with the legacy workflow management system Compass Green.
· Develop, integrate and test new features based on provided specifications.
· Perform root cause analysis of production incidents and deliver code-level fixes.
· Address technical debt through code refactoring, library upgrades and SQL optimization.
· Develop automated unit and integration tests to safeguard platform stability.
· Prepare deployment packages and support integration into production environments.
· Participate in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
· Refine technical backlog items and contribute to technical implementation planning.
· Present completed functional and technical changes during sprint and PI demonstrations.
· Participate in technical alignment meetings, architecture synchronizations and stakeholder update.
**Specific knowledge, skills and expertise:**
Frontend development
· Proficiency in HTML5, Javascript/TypeScript, CSS3 and SASS.
· Proficiency in Angular, including modern concepts like Signals.
· Good knowledge of building complex, modular client-side applications using modern. frameworks, Web Components, micro frontends and state management patterns.
· Experience in Web security, authentication and authorization protocols (OpenID Connect, JWT).
· Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
· Experience with leveraging Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) like AWS CloudFront to optimize asset delivery and improve application performance.
· Understanding key design principles.
· Understanding API integration patterns (consuming REST APIs, error handling, caching strategies).
· Experience with dynamic UI component integration patterns (loading, event communication).
Backend development
· Proficiency in back-end languages (Java) and experience with frameworks (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, Axon).
· Experience with legacy JEE application servers and technology standards and implementations (WebLogic 14, JAXRS, JAXWS, JAXB, EJB, JMS).
· Experience in designing, building, automating, and securing RESTful APIs and web services, including OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
· Experience with API management technologies (Consul, API Gateways, CAPI Gateway)
· Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS) and experience with deploying and managing applications in a cloud environment.
· Understanding authentication and authorization protocols and standards (e.g., OpenID Connect, JWT, Client/Server Certificate).
· Experience with leveraging AI agent technologies during development but also integrated with applications (MCP, Skills, AmazonQ/Kiro, Spec Driven development, context engineering).
· Experience with workflow engine integration (Activiti, Camunda).
Database \& Persistence
· Proficiency in working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, H2DB), including writing complex SQL queries and understanding database design.
· Experience with NoSQL document stores (ElasticSearch, Redis) and understanding of consistency/performance trade-offs.
Architecture
· Experience with cloud-native event-driven micro-service architecture principles and design patterns like CQRS, Saga's.
· Experience with messaging solutions based on JMS and Kafka.
· Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tolos.
· Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for developing, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications.
DevOps \& Infrastructure
· Experience with development and DevSecOps tooling, including version control (Git), Git workflows (GitFlow), and Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab).
· Experience with collaboration tools: issue tracking (Jira) and documentation (Confluence).
· Experience with Observability and Performance Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Elastic APM, Grafana, Prometeus, Zipkin, LogStash, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry).
Testing \& Quality Engineering
· Experience with testing practices (unit and integration testing).
· Experience with Code Review practices.
· Experience with quality tools (SonarQube, Fortify).
· Knowledge of front-end testing frameworks and tools for unit and integration testing.
· Experience in using client-side monitoring tools like Dynatrace Real User Monitoring.
· Experience with performance optimization of web applications.