Enterprise Architect, Corporate Finance (all genders)

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.

Job Description

Join our dynamic and innovative organization as an Enterprise Architect, Corporate Finance. As a Senior Architect you will support delivery teams in the development of detailed solution roadmaps for a well-defined set of capabilities or logical group of systems, services, or projects. You partner closely with engineers and project management to ensure that implementation meets design expectations. You are proactive in reaching out to other architects and leaders in teams with which your technology integrates and you drive results through strong cross-functional collaboration.   

If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are excited about the opportunity to lead architectural initiatives, this is the perfect job for you!

At zooplus, we are a leading e-Commerce company in the pet category dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions and services to our European clientele. With a commitment to innovation and a forward-thinking mindset, we strive to be at the forefront of digital transformation within our industry. As an Enterprise Architect, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse team of experts and contribute to our ongoing success.

You serve as the organization’s subject matter expert for capabilities in your portfolio and work actively within the Architecture Community of Practice.

• In partnership with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Engineers and other Architects, you provide leadership in defining project requirements and success criteria along with guiding the design throughout the development lifecycle.
• Partner with IT functions and their domain architects to design integrated IT solutions (including the build vs. buy decision) that translate business capability requirements and adhere to established technology standards by integration with infrastructure, application, and data.
• Collaborate with other Enterprise / Area Architects within the organization to ensure consistency and alignment across the firm's technology landscape.
• Participate and present at architecture design reviews.
• Proactively align with key stakeholders, seek organizational context and apply learnings to architecture solutions; be comfortable supporting and communicating with diverse technical and business teams.
• Evaluate, document, and escalate alterations to future state architectures.
• Communicates trade-offs in different types of engineering and architecture processes and adjust your team’s process to meet the needs of the project and others on the team
• Contribute to the growth and strength of the architecture community of practice by actively attending and presenting at community events.

Your key responsibilities are:

• Develop overall product architecture vision that is also aligned with IT infrastructure.
• Develop architecture and design for General Ledger Accounting, Customer/Vendor Invoices & Payments, and Record-to-Report processes.
• Analyze and translate business requirements into architectural blueprints using as much as possible of standard enterprise solutions.
• Determine optimal approach to develop and deliver required functionality from financial, architectural, operational perspectives.
• Provide visibility of the Enterprise/Domain architecture and validate associated development efforts.
• Plan and lead legacy-to-Enterprise transformation initiatives
• Review and assess new Enterprise products and offerings against business needs
• 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

About the business domain:

• Financial Reporting & Management
• Accounting
• Operative Planning
• Financial Planning and Budgeting
• AP, AR and Invoicing

About the team:

• We leverage Enterprise Solutions wherever it makes sense.
• 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 work from 3 work locations & more than a handful of nationalities.

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