The Commissariat General for Refugees and Stateless Persons is an independent federal administration. The mandate of the CGRS consists of providing protection to individuals who, if returned to their country of origin, risk persecution or serious harm.

In accordance with Belgian, European, and international standards, the CGRS examines each request for international protection in an individual, objective, and impartial manner.

Within the CGRS, a modernization process has been initiated, translated within the eDossier program. It is a highly ambitious program, consisting of a number of projects, with a very tight timeline. To further shape and develop the program, we are looking for strong profiles who are willing to engage temporarily (fixed-term contracts, immediately terminable, extendable upon positive evaluation) until delivery, foreseen until at least the end of 2028.

One of the profiles we are seeking is a Solution Engineer – Scrum/Agile Delivery Master, expert level (+10 years of experience). We are not looking for an agile coach. We are seeking a solution engineer with a Java cloud engineering background and extensive recent experience as a scrum/agile delivery master. You will be joining an initiative that is already underway, which presents a significant challenge.

A description of the responsibilities and competencies can be found below. You will be part of a team comprised of highly experienced, highly competent, and motivated individuals. The team consists entirely of expert profiles.

If you feel drawn to the core mission of the CGRS and have a match with the responsibilities and required competencies, do not hesitate to apply.

If you are seeking a purely lead and/or purely advisory role, please refrain from applying. The emphasis is on hands-on coordination, follow-up, adjustment, design, and implementation. If you are looking for 4 days of telework, you will also be disappointed with us. To foster team spirit, we ask for presence at the office 3 days per week. Our offices are located next to Brussels South station.

• Higher education degree in computer science, short or long type, obtained at a recognized European college or university, is mandatory (the diploma must be included with the CV within the pro unity platform)
• Continuously self-educating to stay up to date with the latest sustainable trends and innovations, primarily with a focus on software/solution developments that make use of structured and unstructured data in hybrid cloud environments
• 10 years of hands-on experience with design/definition and development of APIs
• 10 years of hands-on experience with development and integration of microservices
• 10 years of hands-on Java SE experience
• 5 years of hands-on experience with Java SE10+
• 5 years of hands-on experience as 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 of 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 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 about choices to be made, taking the full context into account
• Good listener, flexible attitude, and able to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Knowledge and use of Behavioral or Domain Driven Design, Development, and Testing is an asset
• Knowledge of the Angular framework is an asset

I. Languages

Due to the nature of the responsibilities and the client 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. Responsibilities

• You have a broad and diverse set of competencies that enable you to design, develop, manage, and dismantle IT solutions within the scope 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 primary drive being the customer.
• As a Solution Engineer, you contribute to achieving the team's objectives. You support the CGRS in and contribute yourself to delivering quality products to our customers. You collaborate with other engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. Therefore, a commitment to joint problem-solving, advanced design, and delivery is essential.
• As a Solution Engineer, you must understand the entire stack & IT design solution, so that you can guide the team in designing and developing secure & robust solutions, bringing applications into production, and maintaining the application in collaboration with other team members.
• As scrum master, you use technical expertise and experience to contribute to all sprint events (planning, refinements, retrospectives, demos, daily). You are responsible for (helping to) draw up a release calendar in the medium and long term for the various initiatives. In doing so, you also take external dependencies into account. As such, you not only focus on the short term, but are also able to make forward-looking projections.
• You continually develop your own expertise while collecting, updating, and sharing knowledge about new tools & practices within the team.
• Your strong analytical and problem-solving skills enable you to tackle complex challenges and deliver effective solutions.
• You enjoy working in a team and can communicate well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to fully understand and meet the needs of the project.
• Even though you work in a team, you have sufficient maturity to work independently and proactively.