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About us

The IT&IM department is the professional provider of high quality IT solutions and services as well as the driver for the digital transformation of the Damen company. The IT&IM department consists of approximately 160 people and provides 24-7 service to 38 business units and 6000 users.

The role

In your role of ‘Application Integration specialist’ you are responsible for the analysis, design, development and continuous improvement of ‘application integrations’ across our IT landscape. You will also work on the continuous improvement of the methodology and tools (iPaaS)      with which we make these integrations. 

As Application Integration Specialist you will collaborate with Solution Architects to identify the integration requirements. You will help them to translate these requirements into end-to-end integration designs. You will make sure that the appropriate non-functional requirements are taken into account in these designs. It is you who will then realize these designs, i.e. develop / configure the relevant integrations (with our integration toolbox / platform). You will also perform and / or support the relevant testing (unit, technical, integration, functional, non-functional etc). Depending on the requirements, risks and challenges, the work is performed and governed in Waterfall, Agile or DevOps style. 

Examples of integrations that are currently developed are integrations for our new Salesforce platform, our customer experience platform, SharePoint and workflow systems. We are also working on the “api-fication” of our legacy IFS ERP system. Another interesting example is the integration between our engineering environment from Dassault Systèmes and SAP S4/HANA. 

Damen offers opportunities to grow towards the role of solution architect.

As application integration specialist you will report to the chapter lead integration of the IT department and to the project managers or product owners of multidisciplinary squads that you are involved in.

Key accountabilities

  • Together with Solution Architects clarify the functional and non-functional requirements of application integrations;
  • Translate requirements into (end-to-end) integration designs;
  • Peer review / improve integration designs (functional, technical, high-level and detailed); 
  • Realize the designs, i.e. develop / configure the relevant integration (components);
  • Perform and support relevant testing (unit, technical, functional, performance, etc);
  • Perform code reviews and other quality assurance activities; 
  • Create / adjust the relevant documentation (requirements, design, testing, definitions); 
  • Handover to the business and IT support environment; 
  • Proactively collaborate and align with colleagues and stakeholders;
  • Continuously and proactively work on improvements of the integration platform / toolbox; 
  • Proactively maintain a view and understanding on relevant trends and developments in the integration space and introduce these within Damen; 
  • Setup and maintain end-to-end proactive automatic monitoring of integration flows;

Skills & experience

  • Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent education;
  • 5+ years of relevant experience as (integration) developer
  • Experience and knowledge of development frameworks
    • Integration middleware and iPaaS platforms
    • C#
    • .NET (CORE)
  • Experience and knowledge of application integration
    • API Management (security management, policy management)
    • Even Driven Architectures
    • Messaging (JMS, MQTT, AMQP, etc)
    • Extensive knowledge of application integration patters. You know how to implement these patterns with modern iPaaS application integration tooling
    • Security by Design
    • Performance by Design
  • Experience and knowledge of testing practices and tools
    • Test Driven Development
    • Behaviour Driven Development
  • Experience and knowledge of infrastructure to run the integration
    • iPaaS application integration platforms
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Cloud Foundry
    • Azure PaaS (Web Apps, Durable Functions, Logic Apps)
    • Azure Application Insights
    • Elastic Search, Kibana and Logstash (ELK stack)
    • PowerShell
    • Oauth 2.0
    • JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
    • OpenAPI Specification (OAS) 3.x – 2.x
    • Postman & Newman
    • REST API
    • GraphQL
  • Experience with Scrum & Agile;
  • Experience with DevOps;
  • Excellent communication skills (English);
  • Experienced in creating a Microservices Architecture, Event Driven Architectures, Asynchronous communication, iPaaS platforms, frameworks like C# and .NET (CORE), API wrappers (for tiering), CICD and Azure DevOps;
  • Confident in refactoring legacy code and existing APIs;
  • Experienced in and comfortable with working with modern application integration frameworks;
  • While you are able to work autonomously you are also a real team player, proactively aligning your work with your colleagues and stakeholders;
  • Able and willing to work in an international team;
  • Hands-on, ‘can do’ and pragmatic mentality,
  • Proactive, self-motivated, taking initiative and sharing innovative ideas.
  • Able to explain modern application integration concepts to stakeholders

What we offer

At Damen we realize that supporting and managing talented individuals is of great importance. We understand that the key to success is to find the right person for the right job. That is why we continuously invest in your development. Damen offers you (in case of full time employment):

  • a dynamic international working environment focusing on technology and innovation
  • a competitive salary
  • at least 40 days of annual leave
  • travel allowance
  • profit sharing & pension allowance
  • continuous focus on professional and personal development through our Damen Academy
  • an active social environment such as events and sports

An assessment and a pre-employment screening can be a part of the recruitment process.

Other

We are looking for people with the ability to solve problems, who are self-motivated, proactive and eager to develop themselves towards experts, that cannot only help Damen with today’s data challenges, but also those of the tomorrow.       

Within Damen and especially in this team and role you have a lot of responsibility and freedom to come up and implement your own ideas.