Solution Engineer – Agile/Scrum Delivery Master – Belgium

The General Commissioner for Refugees and Stateless Persons is an independent federal administration. The mission of the CGRS is to provide protection to persons who are at risk of persecution or serious harm in the event of return to their country of origin. In accordance with Belgian, European and international standards, the CGRS examines every request for international protection in an individual, objective and impartial manner. A modernization process has been started within the CGRS, translated into the eDossier program. It is a very ambitious program, consisting of a number of projects, with a very tight schedule. To further shape and develop the program, we are looking for strong profiles who want to commit temporarily (contracts with a fixed duration, can be terminated immediately, extendable through positive evaluation) until delivery, expected until at least the end of 2028. One of the profiles we are looking for is a Solution Engineer – Scrum/Agile Delivery Master, level expert (+10 years of experience). We are not looking for an agile coach. We are looking for a solution engineer with Java cloud engineering background and with very strong recent experience as a scrum/agile delivery master. You are joining an initiative that is already underway, which poses a major challenge. A description of the tasks and competencies can be found below. You form a team with very experienced, very competent and motivated people. The team consists entirely of expert profiles. Anyone who is looking for a pure lead and/or pure advisory position, please refrain. The emphasis is on hands-on coordination, follow-up, adjustment, design and implementation. Anyone looking for 4 days of teleworking will also be disappointed. To promote team spirit, we ask that you be present at the office 3 days a week. Our offices are located next to Brussels South station. – Degree in computer science higher education, short or long type, obtained from a recognized European college or university, is mandatory (diploma must be present together with CV within pro unity platform), – Continuously educating oneself to stay informed of the latest sustainable trends and innovations, primarily with a focus on software/solution developments that use structured and unstructured data in hybrid cloud environments, – 10 years of hands-on experience with design/definition and development of APIs, – 10 years hands on experience with development and integration of micro services, – 10 years hands on Java SE experience, – 5 years hands on experience with Java SE10+ – 5 years hands on experience as a scrum/agile delivery master, whether or not combined with the role of Java developer or software architect, within greenfield software projects with the following technologies: APIs, microservices, eventing and cloud, – 5 years hands on experience with event driven architecture and systems (event sourcing and event handling), – 5 years of hands on experience with the implementation of agile frameworks, such as Safe and Less, – 5 years of hands on experience with software design (cloud, API, microservices, eventing), – 3 years of hands on experience as a scrum/agile delivery master within cloud native software projects, – 3 years of hands on experience with Azure Devops to manage agile software/solution delivery, – Ability to propose alternative solutions and formulate recommendations on the choices to be made, taking into account the entire context – Good listener, flexible attitude, and having the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders – Knowledge and use of Behavioral or Domain Driven Design, Development and Testing is an added value, – Knowledge of the Angular framework is an added value,I. Languages Due to the nature of the tasks and the customer base (bilingual working environment), as well as our internal way of working, a very good (active) knowledge of English is necessary, as well as a very good knowledge of Dutch and French.
II. Task package – You have a broad and diverse set of competencies that enable you to design, develop, manage and dismantle IT solutions within the reach of your team. – You are an energetic Solution Engineer with a passion for IT and a positive can-do mentality. You are a team player who works as a core member of a multidisciplinary and cross-functional team with the customer as the primary motivation. – As a Solution Engineer you contribute to achieving the team’s goal. You support the CGRS and contribute to delivering quality products to our customers. You work together with other engineers, analysts and business stakeholders. Therefore, a commitment to collaborative problem solving, advanced design and delivery is essential. – As a solution engineer you need to understand the entire stack & IT design solution, so you guide the team in designing and developing secure & robust solutions, deploying applications into production and maintaining the application in collaboration with other members