Senior API and Integration Architect
Pubblicato il 05-09-2026 - DID in Varese
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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