Job Description The Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons is a federally independent administration. The mission of the CGRS is to provide protection to persons who are at risk of persecution or serious harm in the event of their return to their country of origin. In accordance with Belgian, European and international standards, the CGRS examines each application for international protection in an individual, objective and impartial manner. A modernisation process has been started within the CGRS, translated into the eDossier programme. It is a very ambitious programme, consisting of a number of projects, with a very tight timing. In order to further shape and develop the programme, we are looking for strong profiles who want to commit to the delivery of the programme, currently planned at least until the end of 2028. One of the profiles we are looking for is an expert hands on Solution Engineer. We expect this person to be able to flawlessly and independently convert a high-level solution architecture into an implementation architecture, as well as its actual implementation. You form a team with other experienced, very competent and motivated people. You can always rely on the knowledge and competencies of our enterprise architect. A description of the tasks and competencies can be found below. If you feel attracted by the basic mission of the CGRS and you have a match with the range of tasks and the required competencies, do not hesitate to apply. If you are looking for a pure lead and/or advisory position, please refrain. The emphasis is on analysis, design and implementation. Those looking for 4 days of teleworking will also be disappointed with us. To promote the team spirit and the start-up of the initiatives, we ask you to be present at the office 3 days a week. Our offices are located next to Brussels South Station. Degree in computer science higher education short or long type, obtained at a recognized college or university within the European Union, is compulsory (diploma must be present together with CV within pro unity platform), Continuously educating himself to stay up to date with the latest sustainable trends and innovations, with a focus on cloud native engineering and development, At least 10 years of hands-on experience with design/definition and development of APIs, At least 10 years of hands-on experience in the development and integration of microservices, At least 10 years of hands-on experience with java SE, At least 5 years of hands-on experience with java SE10+ At least 5 years of hands-on experience with software design (cloud, API, microservice, event), At least 5 years of hands-on experience with event driven architecture and systems, At least 3 years of hands-on experience with cloud (native) development, preferably the Azure Cloud, At least 3 years of hands-on experience integrating PaaS offerings, preferably Azure Cloud At least 3 years of hands-on experience with the use of NoSQL databases, At least 3 years of hands-on experience in implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, preferably within Azure DevOps, At least 3 years of hands-on experience in implementing/setting up, optimizing and maintaining development, test, acceptance and production environments within a (hybrid) cloud, preferably Azure Cloud, At least 1 year of hands-on experience with java framework Quarkus, At least 5 years of experience working (together) within large agile delivery teams Ability to propose alternative solutions and formulate recommendations on the choices to be made, taking into