Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contract Type: Long-term
For one of our clients within an European institution, we are currently looking for an IT Web Architect. The candidate will play a key role in the design, architecture, and implementation of websites and supporting applications. This position ensures that multilingual content can be efficiently published and maintained across Internet platforms, while also guaranteeing that solutions meet business, technical, and quality requirements. The role involves architectural design, technical guidance, implementation support, and coordination across teams to deliver robust, secure, and scalable solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain the architecture of software systems by defining components that meet functional and technological needs.
- Perform impact analysis to evaluate the effect of new requirements on existing systems and establish priorities.
- Contribute to the implementation of software components.
- Assist in deployment, configuration, and delivery of systems.
- Monitor development progress and ensure timely delivery of systems and components.
- Manage and implement change requests.
- Capture and translate business needs into actionable tasks for project teams.
- Organize and coordinate workshops, ensuring proper project documentation.
- Provide guidance, coaching, and best practices to developers.
- Ensure websites and applications meet non-functional requirements (quality, performance, scalability, maintainability, and security).
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Strong expertise in enterprise architecture and software design.
- Proven development experience with frameworks and platforms, particularly Java.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services (Amazon S3, Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch, EventBridge, SQS, CloudFront).
- Knowledge of media management (video transcoding, encoding, formats, bitrates, codecs, resolutions, image processing) and delivery optimization best practices.
- Practical experience with media processing tools and services such as AWS Elemental MediaConvert (or alternatives).
- Understanding of asset lifecycle management, from ingestion to publishing.
- Experience handling source files, generating derivatives (thumbnails, proxies), and managing transcoding jobs.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies.
- Strong ability to manage priorities, identify risks and opportunities, and drive results.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Desired/Additional Skills (Assets)
- Experience with message-oriented middleware (Kafka topics, sinks, dead-letter queues for stateful job orchestration).
- Advanced development expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, and REST APIs.
- Experience with headless CMS platforms (e.g., Strapi).
- Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps concepts and CI/CD pipelines.
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What We Do
Cronos Europa is an IT and digital communications company uniquely dedicated to serving the European institutions, agencies and bodies. From the European Union to EUROCONTROL, we partner with a range of supranational and interinstitutional authorities. Our mission is to arm them with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age. Every aspect of our organisation is designed to complement their capabilities - from our people to our processes and our premises. Our brand combines the expertise of former companies Cronos International and C-Dev, with the creative skills of Inspiiro and the breadth of capabilities of the Cronos Group. Today, Cronos Europa employs over 1,000 people in offices across Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, serving institutions across diverse framework contracts. Cronos Europa is part of the Cronos Group, one of the largest IT service providers in the Benelux, employing over 8,000 people across 200 competence centres. By leveraging the Group’s resources, Cronos Europa can help clients extract value from new and emerging technologies, for everything from Artificial intelligence to Zg Quantum. For spontaneous applications: https://cronoseuropa.breezy.hr/p/7a64ee973c6701-spontaneous-application?state=published
