Location: Ispra (VA), Italy — near-site, min. 2 days/week on-site.

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Client: Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

Contract: Long-term service provision

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Integration Architect to join the Knowledge Management & Data team of the JRC's ICT competence centre in Ispra. You will be responsible for integrating AI capabilities into JRC business applications — including the GENESIS UI and ALOHA platforms — ensuring alignment with business needs, technical requirements, and European Commission standards.

You will work within a large, multicultural and multilingual international organisation, contributing to independent, evidence-based science that supports EU policies.

What you will do

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- Design, plan and implement integration strategies within an HTTP/S ecosystem

- Apply distributed-architecture best practices to solve complex integration problems between information systems

- Design, implement and document APIs, exposed securely on a public-facing API Gateway

- Design, implement and deploy workflows

- Develop, deploy and manage integration solutions on containerised infrastructure

- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions meet organisational standards for security, scalability and maintainability

Working conditions

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- Near-site service provision with a minimum of 2 days per week on-site at the JRC Ispra premises; ad hoc on-site presence may be requested with 2 hours' notice

- High degree of discretion required when handling personal or confidential data; signature of the Commission's Ethics reminder is required

Mandatory requirements

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- University degree (EQF Level 7 — master's degree or 5 years of higher education)

- Minimum 20 years of IT professional experience

- English B2 or higher (spoken and written)

- 10+ years of experience in each of the following:

- HTTP and API design

- RESTful and SOAP web services (design and consumption)

- Asynchronous communication and publish/subscribe techniques and technologies

- 5+ years of experience in each of the following:

- Docker, Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures

- Distributed/microservice architectures and complex event processing

- Web xysqume security, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

- API management platforms (e.g. WSO2, CAPI) for securing, publishing and analysing APIs

- CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI)

All experience must be verifiable through evidence provided in the CV.

Soft skills

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- Excellent problem-solving, interpersonal and communication skills

- Ability to produce IT architecture documentation for complex integration patterns, plus clear operational and design reports

- Experience contributing to and leveraging open-source technologies and communities

- Comfortable in an international, multicultural environment and multilingual meetings

- Able to work both autonomously and in a team, with a results-oriented, delivery-focused mindset

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