Senior Architect - Hybrid working model

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan. </p><p>Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink". </p><p>We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people. </p><p>At the heart of our culture is a commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.</p><p><a href="http://lastminute.com/"><u>lastminute.com</u></a> N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange. </p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Being a member of an autonomous, cross-location core architecture team to work on defining  best practices and standards.</li><li>You are responsible for making the impact of changes clear, and ensuring a sound design and approach.</li><li>Balance the need to go fast in the short term with the need to go fast in the long term.</li><li>You work side-by-side with other architects, product/engineering managers, technology leads and individual contributors of varying degrees of seniority, to collaborate for solutions, decision making and leading by example.</li><li>Anticipate and act upon issues that arise, providing alternative approaches and solutions.</li><li>Evaluate and create new tools and techniques to facilitate effective development and architectural practices.</li><li>Communicate a clear vision of how the technology can be optimally applied to products.</li><li>Set the standard for highest quality of work. Lead by example and be proactive in raising concerns as soon as they are observed.</li><li>Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills by attending (and sharing) in-house and/or external courses, reading manuals and testing new applications or solutions</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Skills and Experience</strong></p><p><strong>Essentials</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor or master degree in Computer Science, proven experience in successfully completing development of two or more complex applications or technologies, or equivalent applicable experience.</li><li>Strong experience as a Software Engineer programming in OO/FP languages but preferably in JVM: Java, Scala or Kotlin. Also designing or implementing API best practices as well as using design and architectural patterns.</li><li>Self-motivated; works independently.</li><li>Good exposure or migrating services/solutions to public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP… ).</li><li>Strong communication skills, especially in representing their expertise to a wide range of people. Forges relationships with development personnel throughout the industry.</li><li>Expert in current software design practices, including modularity, event-driven architecture, functional programming, microservices, object-oriented design, optimization, extensibility, and testability. Stays abreast of industry innovations and developments.</li><li>Excellent analysis, project planning, and schedule estimating skills as applied to multi-person projects.  Ability to anticipate and resolve project roadblocks</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Desirable </strong></p><ul><li>Previous working experience in a startup or product company with high traffic experience. </li><li>Previous experience on working in a centralised architecture function is a plus.</li><li>Domain Driven Design is a Plus.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>Abilities/qualities </strong></p><ul><li>Enthusiastic about company and engineering company products. Willing to Generates, enhances, and promotes ideas for useful new projects and technologies.</li><li>Listens a lot. Ask questions to seek clarity. Take the floor when they have information, experience, or perspective to share. Communicates impediments as they arise.</li><li>Learning from colleagues and sharing your knowledge</li></ul><p> </p><h3>Additional Information</h3><p><strong>About the team</strong></p><p>Our international product team combines user-centricity with an entrepreneurial minds