Senior Information Technology Developer

**Senior Information Technology Developer**

**Registry of the European Court of Human Rights
**Location: Strasbourg **Reference**: e047/2024**

Publication: 24 September 2024

**Deadline: 15 October 2024
**Are you a Senior Information Technology Developer interested in managing IT projects and designing solutions which will

help the Court achieve its objectives? Do you want to join a dynamic and supportive team? Would you like to contribute to the

activities of an International Organisation working for human rights, democracy and the rule of law? If so, our job advertisement

may be the right opportunity for you.

**Who we are**

With over 2600 staff members coming from all its 46 member States, the

Organisation. We all strive towards protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of law and our three core

values - **professionalism, integrity and respect**:

- guide the way we work.

The European Court of Human Rights oversees the implementation of the European Convention on Human

Rights in the member States. Individuals can bring complaints of human rights violations to the Strasbourg Court once all

possibilities of appeal have been exhausted in the member State concerned.

The

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**Your role**

As a Senior IT Developer, you will:
lead the development of the case management system for the Court (CMIS);
design software architecture improvements;
architect and evaluate solutions to increase case processing productivity;
design, write, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code (primarily.NET C#, Xaml);
further enhance existing DevOps processes;
mentor and coach other members of CMIS development team;

**Our work is carried by our values**

develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation;
lead code reviews;
enforce SCRUM methodology;
ensure a regular transfer of competence with team members.

identify bugs, performance bottlenecks and devise solutions to these problems;
analyse support issues to determine root cause and ensure issues are resolved;
define test cases and procedures.

In collaboration with the Court’s IT Systems Administration team:
implement security best practices;
improve system administration operations (e.g. Logging & event management).

**What we are looking for**

You must:
have completed a full course of general secondary education and hold appropriate professional qualifications in
information technology;
have a minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience in software development, with the technologies mentioned
below;
have a very good knowledge of one of the two
knowledge of the other (English/French);
be a citizen of one of the member States of the
service of that state;
have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the

be under the age of 65 years.

Demonstrate to us that you have the following competencies:
Professional and technical expertise:

- strong knowledge of.Net WPF/XAML User Interface frameworks (including.Net Core);
- strong knowledge of the MVVM pattern;
- strong understanding of object-oriented programming;
- good knowledge of OWASP 10 vulnerabilities;
- experience with COM and P/Invoke programming;
- good knowledge of TSQL and Microsoft SQL;
- experience in IT project management;
- experience as Scrum master;
- proven ability to architect and design Desktop Application Architecture;
- proven ability to deliver a wide range of development projects, large and small, including specifications and

documentation;
- proven experience as Senior Developer on a project with 250 000 lines of code or more.

Planning and work organisation Please refer to the

Leadership **Competency Framework**

of the
Concern for quality

( - 1,6Mo)

Teamwork and co-operation

Analysis and problem solving

Results orientation

Learning and development

These would be an asset:
Professional and technical expertise:

- strong academic background in information technology;
- development experience with:

- Visual Studio 2019;
- SQL Server;
- Microsoft Office;
- experience with at least one XAML framework, preferably WPF;
- experience with at least one MVVM library such as Prism or MVVM toolkit;
- experience with Windows Installer XML Toolset (WiX), preferably in CI/CD context;
- experience with Agile Process, in particular Azure DevOps Boards and Test Plans;
- experience with Continuous Integration, in particular Azure DevOps;
- experience managing development teams;
- experience in artificial intelligence;
- knowledge of test driven development and an awareness of test automation frameworks;
- knowledge of software development practices, processes and theories, especially around Agile Development

Principles.
- Creativity and innovation

Adaptability

Initiative

**What we offer**

If successful, you may be offered employment based on an initial fixed-term period of at least one year, correspondi