Work Environment: Research and Negotiated Police

You will be working in a dynamic and innovative department of the federal government, which promotes the use of recent and innovative processes such as Agile, Artificial Intelligence, Azure Cloud, and DEVOPS in its projects. Specifically, you will be part of the Research and Negotiated Police division of the IT service of the Federal Police, responsible for the development of applications for the judicial police, applications related to public order and health, the processing of judicial reports, and other matters connected to the Judicial Police and public order.

You will join a team that is curious about new technologies and ready to test new development methods, but you will also be tasked with maintaining and evolving existing applications.

The diversity of activities within the department offers numerous opportunities for growth, both in technical fields and in project management. The challenges include ensuring the quality of products, meeting performance requirements, your ability to analyze and solve problems, as well as your responsiveness to client change requests.

We are

• A pioneer and even a leader in the world of hybrid Cloud and integration of Office365 capabilities into daily operations;
• An IT integrator for the entire Belgian Police.

We want

• To implement the most advanced technologies within the next 5 years to modernize police services;
• To become a global leader in the digital transformation of police services.

We are looking for

• Talent in various IT fields to achieve our ambitions.

What will your tasks be?

As part of the new penal code, which will take effect in 2026, you will be responsible for developing a very important web service to calculate, based on input from various applications, the classification of an offense.

Your tasks will include:

• Designing, developing, and testing the web service based on prior functional and technical analyses;
• Ensuring quality follow-up and development of multi-user, high-availability, and high-visibility applications;
• Providing technical advice in your specific area of expertise while proposing possible adaptations to projects;
• Analyzing user needs;
• Writing technical documentation;
• Providing adequate technical support for the web service;
• Assisting/coaching your colleagues;
• Working on the full development cycle.

Your challenges

• Making the digital transformation of the Police a reality by securely implementing various tools and technologies to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges;
• Ensuring the cybersecurity of our applications and environments by optimally securing them;
• Participating in the digitalization, modernization, and implementation of modern, mobile, secure, and high-performance systems.

Your skills

• Hold a bachelor's or master's degree in IT or equivalent through experience;
• Be a French or Dutch speaker and be willing to work in a multilingual environment (French, Dutch, English);
• Stress resistance;
• Demonstrate discretion;
• Demonstrate flexibility;
• Client-oriented approach.

Essential technical knowledge:

• PHP
• SQL (queries, CRUD, STORE PROC, SQL INJECTION,…)
• REST API
• Design Pattern
• CodeIgniter
• Unit test
• GitLab
• PostgreSQL
• DevOps
• JS