* University degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 15 years of relevant working experience in IT;
* Strong hands-on experience with PHP and specifically Symfony;
* Proven experience in developing standard Web-based software using an MVC-compliant framework based on a scripting language (e.g. JavaScript (Angular) or Nodejs), preferably in the context of service-oriented architecture;
* Proven experience with the range of Web technologies used for data and middle-tier layers;
* Experience with HTML5, CSS, Angular and Bootstrap;
* Experience with XML or JSON/REST for handling flows of data;
* Experience with Oracle RDBMS;
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jira, Git and Bamboo;
* Experience with AngularJS would be considered as a strong asset;
* Experience with text-mining operations would be considered as an asset;
* Excellent command of the English language.