Domain Architect

**Company Description**

More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

We're on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of **Care**, **Courage**, **Openness**, and **Simplicity**. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.

Architectural work sounds boring? At zooplus, we have created a unique & lean process in which we employ collaborative crafting to deliver practical blueprints, guidelines, and training to support our product teams in reaching their goal. To make it even better, we are looking for you, an experienced Domain Architect who has footprints in business domains and cares about the important stuff.

Being part of the Enterprise Architecture Chapter, your mission is to create an environment in which the right architecture emerges to fulfill our business model and product vision. You will also work closely with our business stakeholders, POs, and product teams to transfer business requirements into flexible & sustainable solutions.

**Your business domain**:

- Component based Front-End Platform to serve as customer touch points over multi-channels (web, app, CRM, etc.)

- Unified & localized Content Management platform which enables end-to-end experimentation to drive autonomous, data-driven customer experiences

- Customer experience personalization & optimization across touchpoints

- Provision of accurate and actionable data on customer behavior, product interactions, and transactions to empower teams with insights that optimize business outcomes (tag management, customer profile data, etc.)

- Provision of unified and consistent Admin Platform

- Digital experience domain integration with other business-critical domains (Shopping, Source & Supply, Account Management, Order management, etc.)

**Your responsibilities**:

- Develop overall product architecture vision that is also aligned with IT infrastructure

- Assess as-is architecture and build target architecture in alignment with business & product strategy

- Drive guidelines & policies to govern product development efforts

- Ensure efficient interaction of product landscape

- Ensure overall quality of the software architecture of my product area

- Create architecture blueprints

- Maintain overall state and foresee future needs in IT and technology

- Help product teams in their daily work and maintain hands-on technical expertise

**Your team (Enterprise Architecture Chapter)**:

- We are a group of very open-minded people

- We possess both enterprise architecture and solution architecture skills

- We embrace lean architectural approaches & solutions

- We like bouncing ideas together and educating ourselves regularly through workshops & conferences

- We are from 4 work locations & more than a handful of nationalities

**Qualifications**
- 5+ years of relevant working experience as software architect, ideally in e-commerce context

- Excellent technical leadership skills

- Excellent knowledge of architecture approaches/paradigms and technology alternatives

- Excellent ability to understand the problem domain from both a business and technical perspective, and design solutions for it

- Profound knowledge in the applied business domain

- Profound organizational, communication, and conflict resolving skills

- Demonstrated knowledge in driving projects and agile methodologies

- Passionate about sharing with others

- Knowledge of micro-frontends approach, React, UX design principles, CMS (e.g. Contentful), experimentation and customer data platforms (CDP)

- Previous working experience in e-commerce is a plus

- Very good English (spoken and written)

**Additional Information**

For this position, the applicable collective agreement is the Collective Agreement for Employees in the E-Commerce Sector. The gross annual salary for this full-time role (38.5 hours/week) ranges from €75,000 to €90,000, depending on qualifications and professional experience

With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 6 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect a hybrid work setup**:60% in-office, 40% remote**, collaborating with colleagues across locations.

**Our benefits**:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
✈️ 28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
️ Corporate rates at a local gym chain (Body & Soul)
Company mobile phone for work and personal use

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.