AISB-1084 Solr Expert

Abakus IT-Solutions; Belgium; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Abakus IT-Solutions is seeking a senior IT professional to join the IT department of a public organisation in Belgium. You will implement business components in the Apache Solr ecosystem, develop new solutions, and maintain existing components.

You will analyse requirements, estimate efforts, and ensure CI/CD, testing, and high-quality documentation. French language is required; mainly on-site with remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in IT with 5+ years in IT/Software development.
• Certifications: CSM or CS Dev; OWASP training completed.
• French language skills at C1 level; work in a French-speaking environment.
• Experience in designing, implementing and testing software components.

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements from functional analyses or change requests.
• Estimate effort for technical solutions and deliverables.
• Develop new components and maintain existing ones in Solr ecosystem.
• Follow technical standards and ensure unit/integration tests.
• Apply CI principles and maintain documentation.
• Keep knowledge up to date and participate in training.

Skills

Fr ench language (French C1)

Requirements analysis

CI/CD

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT

Master’s degree in IT

Professional Scrum Master

Professional Scrum Developer

OWASP training

Tools

JetBrains IntelliJ

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

Maven

REST APIs/OpenAPI

Tomcat

Docker

OpenID Connect

SonarQube

Job description

The role sits within the IT department of a public organisation in Belgium. The work involves implementing business components in the Apache Solr ecosystem, both for new projects and for the evolutive and corrective maintenance of existing components.

Responsibilities

• Analyse requirements set out in functional analyses, technical requests or change requests
• Estimate the effort needed to deliver technical solutions
• Develop new solutions and maintain or improve existing components
• Follow the technical standards and recommendations in place
• Carry out unit and integration testing
• Apply continuous integration principles
• Write technical documentation and installation guides, and contribute to operations documentation
• Keep technical knowledge up to date and attend specialised training when needed

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or a Master’s degree (a Master’s in IT is an asset, other fields are accepted)
• At least 5 years of professional experience in IT, including proven experience in software development (design, implementation, testing, maintenance)
• Professional/Certified Scrum Master or Professional/Certified Scrum Developer certification (any date of issue, expired certifications accepted)
• Completed OWASP training (external certificate or documented internal training)

Technical skills - core

• JetBrains IntelliJ
• Spring Framework, Spring Boot
• Maven
• REST APIs (design, consumption, OpenAPI)
• Testing: unit tests, mocking, integration tests, load tests, TDD
• Event-driven, high-availability and SOA architectures
• OWASP Top 10 (2023 version)
• Networking concepts related to development: HTTP, TCP, IP, TLS, WebSockets
• Technical documentation
• Software development processes and lifecycle

Technical environment - additional skills

• Microservices architectures, C4 modelling, Design Patterns
• Docker, Podman (version 29)
• Asynchronous messaging: JMS, AMQP, ASB
• ServiceMix ESB (ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF, Karaf, OSGi)
• Tomcat (9, 10, 11), Drools
• OpenID Connect, SonarQube, Application Insights
• Autonomy, rigour and strong organisational skills
• Quality and results orientation
• Team spirit and good interpersonal skills
• Pragmatism and adaptability
• Awareness of application security and privacy by design principles (GDPR)

Languages

• French: C1 level (understanding, speaking, writing) - the working environment is exclusively French-speaking

Location and conditions

• Mainly on-site in Charleroi (Belgium)
• Remote work currently possible up to 2 days per week