Workflow Management Architect, Brussels (near-site) – MAIA

TheWhiteam; Brussel; On-site; EUR 76,604 - 100,515; Full time

Job summary

TheWhiteam is seeking a Workflow Management Architect to join near Brussels. You will maintain and evolve Activiti and Camunda, implement enhancements, and ensure stability across the platform. The role requires Java and Angular experience, strong API skills, and cloud/containerization know-how.

You will participate in Agile ceremonies, plan backlogs, and contribute to architectural discussions while aligning with production deployments and code quality goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of post-secondary education with a diploma.
• At least 3 years of postsecondary professional experience.
• Strong knowledge of Activiti and Camunda workflow engines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve Activiti and Camunda workflow engines for stability.
• Implement functional enhancements, migrations and performance improvements.
• Ensure backward compatibility with Compass Green.
• Develop, test and integrate new features per specs.
• Perform root cause analysis and code fixes for incidents.
• Refactor code and optimize SQL to reduce technical debt.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests to ensure platform stability.
• Prepare deployment packages and support production integration.
• Participate in PI & Sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Refine backlog items and contribute to technical planning.
• Present changes during sprint and PI demos.
• Attend architecture alignment meetings and stakeholder updates.

Skills

Workflow management

Java development

Angular development

REST API design

CI/CD practices

Education

Post-secondary degree (5+ years)

Tools

Activiti

Camunda

Spring Boot

JPA/Hibernate

Axon

WebLogic 14

OpenAPI/Swagger

Consul

API Gateways

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

GitLab

Dynatrace

Elastic APM

Grafana

OpenSearch

OpenTelemetry

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Position: Workflow Management Architect.

Location: Near-site (Brussels).

Rate: 480€/day.

Language: Services will be provided in English. Consultants must have at least a C1 level, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

Minimum post-secundary education required: At least 5 years of studies attested by a diploma.

Minimum professional experience required: a minimum of 3 years postsecondary professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the existing workflow engines Activiti and Camunda, ensuring operational stability and continuity.
• Implement functional enhancements, technical migrations, performance improvements and corrective changes related to workflow management components.
• Ensure backward compatibility with the legacy workflow management system Compass Green.
• Develop, integrate and test new features based on provided specifications.
• Perform root cause analysis of production incidents and deliver code-level fixes.
• Address technical debt through code refactoring, library upgrades and SQL optimization.
• Develop automated unit and integration tests to safeguard platform stability.
• Prepare deployment packages and support integration into production environments.
• Participate in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Refine technical backlog items and contribute to technical implementation planning.
• Present completed functional and technical changes during sprint and PI demonstrations.
• Participate in technical alignment meetings, architecture synchronizations and stakeholder update.

Specific knowledge, skills and expertise

Frontend development

• Proficiency in HTML5, Javascript/TypeScript, CSS3 and SASS.
• Proficiency in Angular, including modern concepts like Signals.
• Good knowledge of building complex, modular client-side applications using modern. frameworks, Web Components, micro frontends and state management patterns.
• Experience in Web security, authentication and authorization protocols (OpenID Connect, JWT).
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design.
• Experience with leveraging Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) like AWS CloudFront to optimize asset delivery and improve application performance.
• Understanding key design principles.
• Understanding API integration patterns (consuming REST APIs, error handling, caching strategies).
• Experience with dynamic UI component integration patterns (loading, event communication).

Backend development

• Proficiency in back-end languages (Java) and experience with frameworks (Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, Axon).
• Experience with legacy JEE application servers and technology standards and implementations (WebLogic 14, JAXRS, JAXWS, JAXB, EJB, JMS).
• Experience in designing, building, automating, and securing RESTful APIs and web services, including OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
• Experience with API management technologies (Consul, API Gateways, CAPI Gateway)
• Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS) and experience with deploying and managing applications in a cloud environment.
• Understanding authentication and authorization protocols and standards (e.g., OpenID Connect, JWT, Client/Server Certificate).
• Experience with leveraging AI agent technologies during development but also integrated with applications (MCP, Skills, AmazonQ/Kiro, Spec Driven development, context engineering).
• Experience with workflow engine integration (Activiti, Camunda).

Database & Persistence

• Proficiency in working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, H2DB), including writing complex SQL queries and understanding database design.
• Experience with NoSQL document stores (ElasticSearch, Redis) and understanding of consistency/performance trade-offs.

Architecture

• Experience with cloud-native event-driven micro-service architecture principles and design patterns like CQRS, Saga’s.
• Experience with messaging solutions based on JMS and Kafka.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tolos.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) for developing, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting applications.

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Experience with development and DevSecOps tooling, including version control (Git), Git workflows (GitFlow), and Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab).
• Experience with collaboration tools: issue tracking (Jira) and documentation (Confluence).
• Experience with Observability and Performance Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Elastic APM, Grafana, Prometeus, Zipkin, LogStash, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry).

Testing & Quality Engineering

• Experience with testing practices (unit and integration testing).
• Experience with Code Review practices.
• Experience with quality tools (SonarQube, Fortify).
• Knowledge of front-end testing frameworks and tools for unit and integration testing.
• Experience in using client-side monitoring tools like Dynatrace Real User Monitoring.
• Experience with performance optimization of web applications.