Application and Integration Architect

About the role

We're hiring an Application and Integration Architect to support a large EU agency, delivered through a long-term Framework Contract for IT consultancy services. This is a long-term, on-site engagement based in Warsaw, Poland, working within the agency's enterprise IT environment.

The role

As the key architect for enterprise-wide integration, you'll own the design and governance of the agency's systems integration landscape - from API and data-level integration to enterprise service bus solutions, connectors, and integration flows across its platforms.

What you'll do

• Act as key architect in the development and evolution of an enterprise-wide integration platform

• Architect systems integration at the data and API level

• Design enterprise-level integration platform connectors, flows, and service bus solutions

• Plan capacity and security for integration platform capabilities

• Apply integration patterns, standards, and models across projects

• Evaluate and recommend serverless and containerisation platforms across cloud and on-premises infrastructure

• Set standards for design, development, quality, and testing

• Design and communicate enterprise-wide database architecture (schemas, analytics platform, BI services, data governance)

• Elicit needs, analyse requirements, and translate business and user needs into architecture

• Map business goals, priorities, components, and system features

• Analyse existing systems, applications, and services, and identify solution options

• Maintain and track architecture through the systems lifecycle

• Estimate and size network infrastructure against system and business requirements

• Contribute to systems design, testing, quality assurance, and change management

• Prepare system documentation and deliver presentations to stakeholders

• Lead development teams and development processes

• Select and evaluate technologies; collect and interpret system metrics

• Optimise systems for performance, security, and quality

What you bring

• Proven experience as key architect on at least one enterprise-wide integration platform deployment

• Expert-level knowledge of systems integration at the data and API level

• Expert in designing integration platform connectors, flows, and service bus solutions

• Strong knowledge of integration platforms such as Tibco or MuleSoft, SOA, databases, application servers, communication middleware, web applications, cloud integration patterns, BI concepts, and the Software Development Lifecycle

• Sound knowledge of systems and application design in UML

• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices

• Proficiency with systems modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, ARIS Architect, or similar

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Sound knowledge of hybrid systems and application integration

• Excellent communication, documentation, problem-solving, and leadership skills

• Minimum required years of relevant IT and similar-position experience as defined by the tender profile

• Minimum English level: as required by the tender (CEFR)

Bonus / nice-to-have

• Experience modelling in ArchiMate

• Experience with the European Interoperability Framework or other interinstitutional frameworks

• Experience applying enterprise architecture styles and patterns

Logistics

• Location: Warsaw, Poland (on-site, per client requirements)

• Engagement: Specific Contract under a framework contract, with defined initial duration and renewal options

• Personal Security Clearance required (level per tender requirements)

• Selection includes interview and, where applicable, written test stages as defined by the framework contract