Technical Architect Digital Identity Standards - 100% remote (Warsaw, Poland)

Senior Technical Architect

📍 Location: 100% Remote within Europe

🏢 Client: European Commission, Brussels. Belgium.

✨ About the Role

Join the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology in shaping Europe’s digital future!

As Senior Technical Architect for Digital Identity Standards, you’ll play a key role in the architecture, design, and implementation of the EU Digital Identity Wallet, enabling safe, reliable, and private digital identification for millions of Europeans. 🪪🔐

🛠️ Your Responsibilities

✔️ Design and maintain technical specifications for digital identity protocols.

✔️ Lead architecture and implementation of secure, scalable digital identity solutions.

✔️ Provide expert advice on security, privacy (GDPR compliance), applied cryptography & blockchain.

✔️ Create and refine user stories, acceptance tests, and sprint planning within an Agile (Scrum) framework.

✔️ Conduct vulnerability assessments and ensure robust data protection measures.

✔️ Participate in project planning, stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, demos, and reviews.

✔️ Support internal and external communication with stakeholders and resolve technical issues efficiently.

✔️ Deliver consulting services to optimize system integration and interoperability.

💡 What You Bring

✅ Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of privacy rules, GDPR, cryptography, blockchain, OpenID Connect, OAuth2
• 6+ years designing technical architectures for digital identity tech & wallets
• 6+ years in digital identity standards (W3C, ISO, IETF, OIDF, eIDAS, KYC/AML)
• Proven track record in drafting & contributing to Verifiable Credentials specifications (IETF, ISO, W3C VCDM 2.0)
• 6+ years in Agile management (Scrum, Kanban, Lean)
• Proven experience in CI/CD best practices
  
  

✅ Technical Skills:

• Web Services, API design
• Java, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript/Node.JS
• Experience with standards: ISO 18013-5, ISO 18013-7, ISO 23220 series
• Scrum Master Certified (mandatory).
  
  

✅ Soft Skills:

• Excellent communicator with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong influencing & presentation skills
• Collaborative mindset with rapid self-starting ability
• Adaptability to fast-changing technologies and global teams
  
  

📜 Be ready to showcase your expertise in a live technical interview!

🌍 Why Join?

Be part of a geostrategic project that impacts every citizen in the EU, while working remotely within Europe. Collaborate with experts to build the Europe’s digital transformation. 🌐✨