Work Environment: Research and Negotiated Police

You will work in a dynamic and innovative department of the federal government, which promotes the use of recent and innovative processes such as Agile, Artificial Intelligence, Azure Cloud, and DEVOPS in its projects. More specifically, you will work within the Research and Negotiated Police service of the IT department of the Federal Police, which is responsible for the development of applications for the judicial police, applications related to public order and health, the processing of judicial reports, and other matters related to the Judicial Police and public order.

You will join a team that is curious about new technologies and ready to test new development methods, but you will also have the task of maintaining and evolving existing applications.

The diversity of activities within the department offers many opportunities for growth, both in technical fields and in project management. The challenges include ensuring product quality, meeting performance requirements, your ability to analyze and solve problems, as well as your responsiveness to client change requests.

We are

• A pioneer and even a leader in the world of hybrid Cloud and the integration of Office365 capabilities into daily operations;
• An IT integrator for the entire Belgian Police.

We aim to

• Implement the most advanced technologies over the next 5 years to modernize police services;
• Thus become a global leader in the digital transformation of police services.

We are looking for

• Talent in various IT fields to achieve our ambitions.

What will your tasks be?

In the context of the new Penal Code which will become effective in 2026, you will be responsible for the development of a very important webservice to calculate, based on data entry from different applications, the classification of an offense.

Your mission

• Design, develop, and test the webservice based on preliminary functional and technical analyses;
• Ensure the monitoring and quality development of multi-user, high-availability, and high-visibility applications;
• Provide technical advice in your specific area of expertise while proposing possible adaptations to projects;
• Analyze user needs;
• Write technical documentation;
• Provide adequate technical support for the webservice;
• Offer assistance/coaching to your colleagues;
• Work on the entire development cycle.

Your challenges

• Make the digital transformation of the Police a reality by securely implementing various tools and technologies to meet today’s and tomorrow’s challenges;
• Guarantee the cybersecurity of our applications and environments by ensuring their optimal security;
• Participate in the digitalization, modernization, and implementation of modern, mobile, secure, and high-performance systems.

Your skills

• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT or equivalent through experience;
• Be French-speaking or Dutch-speaking and willing to work in a multilingual environment (French, Dutch, English);
• Stress resistance;
• Demonstrate discretion;
• Demonstrate flexibility;
• Client-oriented approach.

Essential technical knowledge:

• SQL (queries, CRUD, STORE PROC, SQL INJECTION, …)
• Winforms
• MVVM
• Rest API
• LINQ
• JSON
• Visual studio installer (for MSI)
• Microsoft Azure
• Design Pattern
• CI
• DevOps
• Unit test
• Nuget
• GitLab
• Maui
• PostgreSQL
• API
• CMS
• noSQL
• PHP
• Vue.js