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