Backend Architect F/M/X

Localisation: Aimargues (30 minutes from Montpellier)

Type of contract: permanent contract

To achieve its ambition to be the reference in pet health through nutrition, Royal Canin wants to continue to push the barriers of nutrition and individualization.

The digital transformation is driving both new opportunities to serve more pets but also new challenges for our existing business models. Join the Royal Canin Digital Factory to participate to this transformation. You will join a multi-cultural, dynamic and caring team working all together and closely on all the digital projects of the brand. Royal Canin's Digital Factory is key in achieving this strategy through the multiplicity of its practices: UX/UI, Development, Product Ownership, Market deployment, Architecture, Governance...

While the team will develop new digitally enabled business models that will shape the future of Royal Canin and Eukanuba, they also support the transformation of our existing business models.

In this Digital acceleration context, Royal Canin needs to reinforce its internal strengths with digital, user centric and data capabilities. Based in Aimargues, this job will sit in our Digital Factory, which mission are to:

• Develop our Service-driven and digital platforms supporting “Pet Health Guardians”
• Develop our key capabilities on Design Thinking, UX, Agile Management, Mobile/Web/Ecommerce development, Digital Platform deployment and Data-driven transformation.
• Leverage those capabilities to design and build our future Business Models
• Help in acquiring data and driving traffic to our owned assets, which will help transform data collected into digital performance metrics and business insights.
• Push from global to deploy@ scale and pull from local to global synergy

The Digital factory, as part of the Direct to Pet Owner organization, works in strong partnership with Marketing and sales team and Innovation team.

Reporting to the Develop Factory Lead, we are hiring a Backend Architect, who will define and drive the Backend technology strategy across the Digital Factory to support the organization ambitions.

What are we looking for ?

• 7 to 15 years' experience in Microservices Development for digital environment

• Management of complex technical projects on an international level & in Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)

• Ability to  work with different teams and various team dynamics to achieve challenging delivery objectives

• Lead of technical teams with external and internal actors

• Fast Learner, Influencing and negotiations skills

• Fluent in English

What will be your key responsibilities ?

The role of Backend Architect for Supervision Node.js Developers entails leading, guiding, and supervising multiple development teams working on projects utilizing Node.js, Angular, and/or React technologies. The Backend Architect plays a crucial role in designing and implementing robust and scalable technical solutions, ensuring the quality, performance, and consistency of the developed applications.

As Backend Architect, you will have to:

Leadership:

• He/she can establish the software/microservices architecture of his/her project or steer it in a different direction, in alignment with the technical direction of the project.
• He/she oversees the quality of what is produced by his/her team.
• He/she communicates on technical matters, leveraging his/her expertise and contributing to the visibility of his/her team's expertise.
• The Architect is the technical lead of the project. He/she ensures internal coordination between his teams and other teams involved in the project.
• He/she ensures the flow of information and validates, if necessary, the various technical actions to be taken.
• He/she can propose the right design based on functional and business challenges, and he advocates for his choices in front of the stakeholders.
• Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor multiple development teams in designing, implementing, and maintaining software solutions based on Angular, and/or React.
• System Architecture: Design and define the technical architecture of applications, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with development teams, Delivery Leads, and PO to understand business requirements and define appropriate technical solutions.
• Standards and Best Practices: Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and development conventions within the teams.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks throughout the development lifecycle.

Meetings :

• Synchronization with backend lead devs of all product squads
• Technical retrospective: Once per sprint, exchange with the entire DEV team on technical improvements => Deliverables are technical tickets to be included in sprints (optional guest), leads must document decisions with CRs
• Back and Front Design Authority (weekly)
• Synchronization with front and back teams (sharing new topics, roadmaps, ..)
• Synchronization with DevOps

What can you expect from Mars?

• At Mars, we believe in a relationship of mutual trust, dignity and respect between our company and Associates that is more meaningful than the standard employer/employee relationship.

• As Associates, we can expect to be respected, supported and valued as individuals, to be treated fairly and equitably.

• An environment where you are empowered to be proactive and to take initiatives to make a difference.

• You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office! 

• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.