As an Enterprise Architect Customer Facing, or as we like to call it: Customer Facing Engineering Boss, you are responsible for our software architecture and landscape of the Customer Facing area. Including strategic planning and execution. The Customer Facing area entails any software that is used by our customers or needed to serve the customer facing environment. This includes our mobile app, webshop, store applications, self service content, energy, recruitment website and frontend design system.
Based on our strategic business goals, you define the most suitable Customer Facing Engineering architecture. You will ensure that our 20+ Customer Facing 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 MicroFrontends. You utilize the knowledge of the full Development community and support bottom-up initiatives. And more importantly, you get these initiatives done. You challenge Principal Developers on their architectural choices and contribution to the Development teams and ensure 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 Customer Facing Engineering, by creating proposals for new initiatives, reporting on the planning and performance of your area. You'll bring your expertise to the table on overarching topics.
You enjoy doing this- Develop the most suitable Customer Facing Engineering vision based on Coolblue business objectives.
- Initiate, organize and supervise implementation of strategic software engineering projects in order to get to your Engineering vision.
- 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 guiding buy vs build decisions to ensure the right tool is used for the right job and we build software in an effective way.
- 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 Customer Facing Agile Software Development.
- Technical expertise and strong analytical skills. You have a clear vision of Customer Facing software architecture and the use of technology, languages, principles, blueprints and guidelines.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills to connect and lead the way for the Development community and management.
- Loads of autonomous drive and ownership, project management skills and problem solving skills to organize strategic projects and get them done.
- Autonomic drive to keep up within your field of expertise.
- Money.
- Challenging work to fully immerse yourself in, so that you occasionally forget that you’re at work.
- An extraordinarily good work environment with colleagues who make you happy, Coolblue parties, pub quizzes and other activities.
- Working together in an international environment with colleagues from the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and many more.
- 25 leave days. As long as you promise to come back.
- Travel allowance, a retirement plan and where-you-work-allowance.
- A fine balance between working at the office and working from home. Of course, we’ll help you create the best home-office possible. Including desk chair, laptop, and blue garlands.
- A flat organization in the broadest sense of the word. You can have a beer with the boss if you like.
- Room for new initiatives and ideas. We’re always open to those, whether you’ve been with us for a week, month, or a year.
- A picture-perfect office at a great location. You could crawl to work from Rotterdam Central Station. We recommend just walking for 2 minutes, though.
- With over 30 training courses in our own Coolblue University, you can become a little better every day.
- A discount on all our products.