As an Enterprise Architect Back Office, or as we like to call it: Back Office Engineering Boss, you are responsible for our software architecture and landscape of the Back Office area, including strategic planning and execution. The Back Office area entails any software that is used by our employees or an (operational) process to support the day-to-day running of our business. This includes our purchasing, warehouse, delivery and installations, returns, finance, HR and energy contracts teams.
Based on our strategic business goals, you define the most suitable Back Office Engineering architecture. You will ensure that our 40+ Back Office Development teams use technology, programming languages, principles, blueprints and guidelines that enable scalability, increase speed of delivery or reduce maintenance costs. In addition, you are able to communicate clearly about this at various levels, from proposing to management about yearly goals or promising new technology, to evangelizing principles, blueprints and guidelines to our entire development population. This way you ensure these are successfully implemented in each of our 300+ daily software releases.
Furthermore, you initiate, organize and supervise implementation of new (strategic) software engineering technologies and projects like our own Delivery Hero app or a new Warehouse Management System. You utilize the knowledge of the full Development community and support bottom-up initiatives. You challenge Principal Developers on their architectural choices and contributions to the Development teams, ensuring that these align with your Engineering goals and the business needs.
As Enterprise Architect, you are part of the Software Engineering Board, which steers and decides upon domain overarching Software Engineering projects, like geographical expansion to Germany. In the board, you represent Back Office Engineering by creating proposals for new initiatives and reporting on the planning and performance of your area.
Responsibilities- Develop the most suitable Back Office Engineering vision based on Coolblue business objectives.
- Initiate, organize and supervise implementation of strategic software engineering projects.
- Explore new technology, partnerships, languages or other opportunities to enable scalability, increase speed of delivery or reduce cost of maintenance.
- Advise and lead the way for our Principal Developers and Development teams as well as Product Owners, Domain Bosses, Head of Development Roadmaps, and CEO.
- Challenge development roadmaps and guide buy vs build decisions to ensure the right tool is used for the right job.
- Hire Principal Developers based on your formation plan, allocate them to assignments, challenge them on their architectural choices, and provide input for their yearly assessment.
- A Master’s Degree.
- Several years of experience in Enterprise architecture.
- More than 10 years of work experience in Back Office Agile Software Development.
- Technical expertise and strong analytical skills, with a clear vision of Back Office software architecture.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills to connect and lead the way for the Development community and management.
- Autonomous drive and ownership, project management skills, and problem-solving skills to organize strategic projects.
- Drive to keep up within your field of expertise.
- Competitive salary.
- Challenging work that fully immerses you.
- An extraordinarily good work environment with happy colleagues.
- International collaboration with colleagues from various countries.
- 25 leave days, with the promise to return.
- Travel allowance, retirement plan, and home office support.
- A flat organization structure.
- Room for new initiatives and ideas.
- A convenient office location.
- Access to over 30 training courses in our own Coolblue University.
- A discount on all our products.