Backend Developer BVID

Project overview

For our end client, the Police, Harvey Nash is looking for a backend developer.

Expected start date: 01-01-2027 (start possible after completion of screening)

Responsibilities

As a team member, you are co-responsible for achieving the team's goals. You contribute to the entire software delivery process: from design and development to testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational management. You work under architecture and coordinate with colleagues and the Tech Lead to align technical choices with broader frameworks.

You take ownership of the quality, stability, and performance of the systems you build. You actively contribute to improvements in processes, tooling, and collaboration, and help optimize team metrics such as deployment frequency and lead time for changes. You have in-depth expertise in backend development (.NET), as well as broad knowledge of DevOps tooling, containerization, CI/CD, test automation, and security; you recognize yourself in the profile of a broad T-shaped professional.

You collaborate effectively with other teams through clear interaction patterns and help keep the cognitive load within the team manageable. You share knowledge, provide feedback, and support colleagues in their growth. You are transparent in your choices, take initiative, and contribute to a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

(if a candidate does not meet all requirements but comes close, still propose them)

Desirables:

Competencies:

You make a significant contribution to the teams regarding, for example, the migration from BVID-2 to BVID-3, and other major necessary legal changes. You will use your skills to improve the quality of the application(s). This includes both technical improvements and new functional needs, partly due to changing (European) legislation.

Problem Analysis:

Identifies problems, seeks and recognizes important information, breaks down issues, and establishes connections between data.

Initiative:

Recognizes opportunities. Acts upon them and dares to take risks to ultimately achieve a recognizable benefit for the organization. Prefers to start proactively rather than waiting passively.

Learning Ability:

Is alert to new information. Actively masters new knowledge and applies it effectively for their own role.

Collaboration:

Has an eye for the group interest and actively contributes to the common result.

Oral and Written Communication Skills:

Clearly communicates facts, opinions, and ideas to others in understandable Dutch, both orally and in writing.

Working hours and days:

2 days a week on-site

4 times a year on-call duty

The police operate in a changing society where diverse perspectives are essential for good police work. Therefore, diversity is of great importance to us. How can we utilize your knowledge and background for this?

For this assignment, a screening type BO+ applies. For more information about the screening: Police selection - Screening | Kombijdepolitie

Furthermore, we would like to receive the following information:

Earliest possible start date

Availability in hours per week

All-in rate (incl. travel and/or accommodation costs, excl. VAT)

Vacation schedule within the next 3 months

Place of residence

Candidate's date of birth

Candidate's email address

Candidate's phone number

Motivation (max 150 words)

If supplier: contact person's email and phone number

Type of hire: Freelancer or Own Supplier Employee or Freelancer via Supplier

Availability for potential interviews at the Police, within 5 days after the application closing date.

By responding to this request, the Contractor declares to have taken note of and agrees to the General Hiring Conditions or General Hiring Conditions for Independent Professionals of Harvey Nash and the associated Client Annex Police. These can be found at www.harveynash.nl/politie

• The candidate has at least 5 years of work experience with .NET Development in the past 6 years.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of work experience with REST API Development in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of work experience with Containerization in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has gained at least 3 years of work experience in version control (GIT) in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of work experience with microservices and messaging techniques in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of work experience in a DevOps environment and a DevOps mindset in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has at least 2 years of work experience with RabbitMQ or similar messaging techniques in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has at least 2 years of demonstrable work experience with Entity Framework and MSSQL in the past 5 years.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience with domain-driven design.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tooling (GitLab, ArgoCD).
• The candidate has at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Elastic/Kibana.
• The candidate has at least 3 years of demonstrable work experience with test automation (unit tests, integration tests, API tests).

Project details

24 months

Number of hours per week: 36

Location of work: Odijk

On-site or from home: 2 days at the office

Freelancer possible: no, only secondment

Deadline for proposing candidates: Monday, October 19th, before 09:00

Position scale and step: Business Operations Specialist B, scale 10

Education level: HBO (Higher Professional Education)

You have a diploma at HBO level (bachelor's) or equivalent through EVC (Recognition of Prior Learning). Alternatively, you have at least two years of demonstrable experience at the required work and thinking level. This must be demonstrated with your CV, supplemented with an official job description, vacancy text, or other document clearly stating the required work and thinking level.

102.50 all-in excluding VAT

Assignment Description

For registering and verifying personal data of suspects and foreigners using documents, fingerprints, photos, and signatures, the National Police uses identification kiosks. Through the underlying system, the Basis Voorziening Identiteit vaststelling (BVID), it can also be determined whether the owner of a fingerprint is already known to the police or a chain partner. For example, because the person in question has been arrested before or because they entered the Netherlands or another European country as a foreigner.

The police are looking for an experienced .NET Developer (back-end) to further develop the BVID and implement new laws and regulations. If you are proactive, have good ideas, can adopt others' excellent ideas, enhance the positive atmosphere in the DevOps team, and enjoy a dynamic environment? Then you are in the right place with us.

The National Police is looking for an experienced .NET Developer (back-end) for the further development of the Basis Voorziening Identiteit Vaststelling (BVID), a crucial application used via identification kiosks to register and verify personal data of suspects and foreigners based on documents, fingerprints, photos, and signatures. You will work in a DevOps team on implementing new laws and regulations, actively contribute to a positive work atmosphere, and provide input on technical and functional improvements.

You enjoy a dynamic environment with societal impact and are willing to be available outside regular office hours when needed (on-call duty).

• Start: 01-01-2027 (starten kan na afronding van screening)
• Duration: 24 maanden
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Bunnik, Utrecht, NL
• Rate: 103-103 EUR/h
• Languages: Dutch