Process Automation Specialist — Workflow Platform Operations for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

WLG is seeking a skilled Camunda engineer in the Netherlands to maintain and extend our process automation platform. You will manage Camunda workflows (BPMN/DMN), develop UI forms in React, and integrate with external systems using REST APIs, queues, and microservices. Strong Java and Spring Boot expertise are essential.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, draft roadmaps, and maintain governance. Excellent English communication is required; French is a plus.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience developing workflows on Camunda 7 or above, including BPMN and DMN, and building React forms.
• Strong Java, platform is Java-based, plus Spring Boot or external task workers in JS or Python.
• Hands-on integration with third-party systems over REST APIs, message queues, connectors and microservices.
• Comfort with databases and with handling data inside a running process.
• Git and CI tooling for deploying, testing and maintaining automation solutions.
• Understanding how process models execute to enable fast, incremental delivery.
• Analytical mindset to break down complex processes and create maintainable solutions; solid troubleshooting.
• Clear written and spoken English, able to present status to a senior audience and negotiate with owners/managers.
• Nice to have: French.

Responsibilities

• Keeping the Camunda platform healthy and available against agreed service levels on a proactive maintenance plan.
• Planning and applying patches, hotfixes and version upgrades, and upgrading underlying database technology.
• Testing modifications before release and troubleshooting performance issues.
• Administering users, groups and security settings, and documenting configuration.
• Drafting the automation roadmap and governance plans, keeping them current with the customer.
• Gathering requirements and turning process descriptions into automation models.
• Building and maintaining workflows and forms, and integrating with third-party applications.
• Troubleshooting data exchange errors, documenting developments for future maintainers.
• Producing training material and knowledge articles for users.

Skills

Camunda BPMN/DMN

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Message Queues

Git

CI/CD

React Forms

Python/JavaScript

Databases

Process Modelling

Troubleshooting

English Communication

French (optional)

Tools

Git

CI/CD Tools

REST API Integrations

Job description

A multinational defence organisation runs a growing amount of its internal process automation on Camunda, and is looking for the engineer who will both keep that platform healthy and build what runs on top of it. This is one seat with two halves, and the second is the interesting one.

What You Would Be Doing

• Keeping the platform supported and available against agreed service levels, on a proactive maintenance plan agreed in advance rather than by firefighting.
• Planning and applying patches, hotfixes and approved version upgrades, and upgrading the database technology underneath.
• Testing every modification before it reaches anything that matters, and troubleshooting performance when it slips.
• Administering users, groups and security settings, and keeping the configuration documented well enough to be handed over.
• Drafting the automation roadmap and the governance and management plans, then keeping them current with the customer.
• Gathering requirements from staff across the organisation and turning process descriptions into models for automation.
• Building and maintaining workflows, including the forms people actually interact with, and the workflows that exchange data with third-party applications.
• Troubleshooting data exchange errors, correcting them, and documenting every development so the next person is not starting from scratch.
• Producing training material, guides and knowledge articles for the people who use it.

What you would bring

• Substantial experience developing workflows on Camunda 7 or above, including process modelling in BPMN and DMN, and building the React forms that sit in front of them.
• Strong Java, because the platform is Java based, plus Spring Boot or external task workers written in another language such as JavaScript or Python.
• Hands-on integration with third-party systems over REST APIs, message queues, connectors and microservices.
• Comfort with databases and with handling data inside a running process.
• Git and continuous integration tooling for deploying, testing and maintaining automation solutions.
• A working understanding of how process models execute natively, and how that architecture supports fast, incremental delivery.
• The analytical habit of taking a complicated business workflow apart and putting something maintainable in its place, plus genuine troubleshooting skill.
• Clear written and spoken English, the confidence to present status to a senior audience, and the patience to negotiate with system owners and project managers.
• Nice to have: French.

Extensions are offered where the work goes well. Applications are reviewed as they arrive.