Offerta di lavoro Senior API and Integration Architect - Varese

Descrizione dell'annuncio di lavoro

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

Competenze richieste

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