Application Architect for Brand Websites

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All about the role:

As Application Architect for the website channel of the Electrolux brands, you will be responsible for the technology agenda and will be owning the architecture design of the website platform by reviewing current implementations and processes and propose improvements, leading an ongoing process of metric-driven optimization, raising awareness of new web technologies and the benefits they could bring, and ensure that your specialist knowledge is shared throughout the organization.

This role is pivotal in driving the front-end content development and executing the wider digital strategy to ensure maximal direct-to-consumer experience and the growing need of high-performance platforms.

You will be part of the Marketing Engineering team in a key role working with the Marketing product management function in defining and executing the digital strategy and working closely with technical leadership roles from the delivery partners to carry out optimizations and architecture transformations, but especially daily working within the development teams to successfully deliver and support the Electrolux day-to-day website/digital platform content management needs.

What you'll do:

In this role you will support brand website solution development by providing, communicating, and evolving the broader technology and architectural view of the solution, working with product teams (especially the technical leads) by providing technical enablement concerning subsystems and capability areas:

· Lead the architecture design of the Electrolux brands web sites solution and ensure change requests authority, by owning the corresponding current IT landscape and its transformation to the target optimal architecture

· Responsible of the solution architecture design quality and alignment with the Electrolux IT strategy, making sure that the solution architecture design is optimized for performance, reliability and scalability

· Assist with web performance and web security configuration using Akamai services, Azure cloud services and any other future options in place

· Act as the EPiServer/Optimizely and web portal technical and functional subject matter expert within the Electrolux Marketing community

· Create and implement best practices regarding solutions based on Microsoft.Net and EPiServer/Optimizely platforms – configuration and custom coding

· Design and implement proof of concepts using new Digital Marketing technology trends available

You will also collaborate closely with product management function in defining the technology infrastructure to realize the product development roadmap (by decomposing business epics/features into components and subsystems, and defining their interfaces and APIs), including the ownership of the technology enablers epics/features.

Who you are:

Dynamic and motivated, you have a strong background as a developer who specialises in web portal, web content management and web security technologies and moved since a while to an architecture role designing web-oriented solutions in the consumer-facing digital space. You are looking to move beyond and use your expertise to lead the growth of the Electrolux web presence at large scale and drive the technology agenda based on new web technology trends.

Qualifications:

To succeed in this role, you will need to demonstrate experience in managing the solution architecture practice and a clear understanding of technical landscapes that are made of CMS and web presentation-based software products combined with a micro-service based architecture. Previous experience working in a Technical Lead or Architect role in a web and content management area is essential, experience with scaled agile teams will be a plus. You will need to be able to communicate effectively with a multitude of people across IT, business, and vendor teams including senior stakeholders and be capable of exercising conflict resolution.

· Advanced and proven experience of using Microsoft.Net web technologies in high-traffic environments and performance experience related to web frontend. 5+ years development experience using Microsoft technologies. Web technologies including ASP.NET, C# and MVC strongly preferred

· Advanced and proven experience of using EPiServer/Optimizely CMS technologies in high-traffic environments and in addressing common EPiServer/Optimizely performance problems and optimizations. Any EPiServer/Optimizely certification is a plus

· Solid experience with Microsoft Azure cloud hosting infrastructure operations and application operations

· Experience of using Akamai web performance and web security technologies in high-traffic environments. The corresponding certification is a plus

· Able to confidently estimate the effort required to perform EPiServer/Optimizely specific work, in partnership with the development team

· Experience as architect or technical lead in a scaled agile setup

· Advanced interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with ability to communicate your specialist knowledge with both technical and non-technical groups. Perform ongoing reviews of current implementations, share feedback with the rest of the team

· Experience working in multicultural/international environments.

Where you'll be:

You will be based at Electrolux office in Stockholm, Sweden or Pordenone, Italy.

Benefit highlights include:

· Flexible work hours/hybrid work environment.

· Attractive social benefits package.

· Extensive learning opportunities and flexible career path.

We look forward to receiving you application!

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