Domain Architect

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 Software 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.

**About the business domain**:

- E-commerce processes & systems
- Retail processes & systems

**About the team (Software Architecture Chapter)**:

- We are a group of very open-minded people
- We embrace lean architectural approaches & solutions
- We like bouncing ideas together and educate ourselves regularly through workshops & conferences
- We are in 3 different work locations & more than a handful of nationalities

**Your responsibilities are**:

- Develop overall product architecture vision that is also aligned with IT infrastructure
- 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
- Excellent technical leadership skills
- Excellent knowledge of architecture approaches/paradigms and technology alternatives
- Excellent ability of understanding problem domain both from business and technical perspective and design solutions for it
- Profound knowledge in the applied business domain
- Profound organizational, communication, conflicts resolving skills
- Demonstrated knowledge in driving project and agile methodologies
- Passionate about sharing with others
- Previous working experience in e-commerce is a plus
- Very good English (spoken and written)

**What we are offering you**

Become a part of our success story and seize the opportunity to take on a real challenge in a dynamically growing company where there is huge scope for development and short decision-making processes. We are offering you a versatile, international-facing role in our motivated team with colleagues from all over Europe. Our Austrian office is at a great location in Vienna, with excellent infrastructure links. Additionally, we offer many benefits such as:
✈️ 28 labour days of vacation (plus December 24th and 31st)
- Flexible and remote working

Modern office in the city center close to Schwedenplatz with a great view over Vienna

Discount in our zooplus shop for all our employees

Employee discount program for several online shops

German language courses on company premises

Free public transport ticket
- Free drinks and fresh fruit in the office kitchen

Continuous development through internal and external training opportunities

Company events

We encourage diversity Meet our motivated and friendly teammates from over 50 nationalities

The gross annual salary for this position (38.5 hours/week) is minimum 65,000 EUR. Depending on your qualification and experience we are willing to overpay.

**Did we make you curious?**:
Join us and drive our success with your personal experience, your passion, your entrepreneurial thinking and your will to take over real ownership