Web Arhitect

On behalf of our client, we are looking for Web Arhitect:

Level: Senior

Type of employment: full time

Location: Novi Sad, Serbia

Model of work: hybrid (1-2 days/week from office), 8-16h

Selection process:

The Opportunity:

Our client is a French company that has accumulated over 140 years of knowledge and experience. They are innovative and established company focused on its experts and entrepreneurial spirit.

In this environment, you will be encouraged to take initiatives which support business, while expressing your personality and your talents.

The Web Architect ensures the consistency and efficiency of current web platforms while anticipating future needs. The role includes evaluating emerging technologies and preparing the organization for potential architectural evolutions, such as modular or composable approaches, aligned with business strategy. He/She guarantees that the web solutions (portals, websites, front-end applications, e-commerce, and customer interaction systems) meet business requirements, integrate with Pim, Dam, ERP, CRM, marketing automation and other sales networks solutions, and remain aligned with enterprise standards and digital strategy.

In addition to good experts and the experience you will gain here, you will also find a company that is environmentally conscious.

Benefits:

When it comes to work-life balance, you can expect:

• Private health insurance
• Compensatory time (no lost overtime hours/minutes)
• 23 vacation days plus accumulated overtime work (used as a day off or paid extra)
• Ability to travel internationally
• Healthy and fulfilling work environment
• Team buildings
• Fit pass for sport activities
• Opportunity to learn and develop in a global company

Key Job Responsibilities:

Strategy

•    Define the architectural vision and roadmap for web platforms in alignment with the business and digital strategy.

•    Ensure alignment of web architecture with the broader IT landscape, including CRM and sales channels.

•    Contribute to digital innovation initiatives (new front-end frameworks, cloud-native services, microservices adoption).

•    Monitor and assess emerging trends (e.g., composable commerce, MACH principles, advanced API-first integrations) and advise on their relevance to the organization.

•    Develop scenarios and recommendations for potential architectural transformations, ensuring flexibility and scalability for future business requirements.

Delivery

•    Design and validate the architecture of new web solutions, ensuring scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.

•    Oversee solution design choices (front-end frameworks, CMS, integration patterns, APIs, hosting model).

•    Support project teams during delivery and implementation phases by providing guidelines and reviewing key design documents.

•    Ensure web solutions comply with enterprise security, accessibility, and UX standards.

•    Coach Lead Developers and evangelize teams on web technologies

•    Willingness to occasionally engage in coding and take leadership in resolving critical incidents, including reviewing code for architectural compliance, critical modules, or during critical incidents.

Collaboration

•    Work closely with the Web development team, CRM experts, digital product owners, and sales network stakeholders.

•    Coordinate with enterprise architects, devops, security officers, and infrastructure teams to ensure consistency across systems.

•    Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders on the feasibility and sustainability of web solutions.

Governance

•    Define and enforce web architecture principles, standards, and best practices.

•    Participate in architecture review boards and validate solution architecture decisions.

•    Contribute to technology selection processes (tools, frameworks, hosting providers).

Technology and innovation

•    Monitor and evaluate new technologies, emerging trends in web architecture (headless CMS, Composable micro frontends, API-first design, cloud-native web hosting).

•    Propose innovative solutions to improve customer experience and optimize digital platforms.

•    Promote reusability, modular design, and the use of enterprise platforms across projects.

•    Monitor quality of the platform and manage remediation plans: bug tracking, technical debt, performance, scalability, reliability

•    Ensure the quality of development by challenging the development strategies, ensuring the implementation of rigorous testing and validation procedures.

                                         If you are someone who has this set of skills and experience:

Must:

• 5+ years of experience in web architecture, digital platforms, or front-end/back-end integration.
• 3+ years of experience as technical lead/coordinator
• Proven track record in designing, delivering and maintaining large-scale web solutions for customer-facing platforms.
• Experience with CRM integration and multi-channel digital ecosystems is strongly valued.
• Architecture & Design: Strong knowledge of web architectures (multi-tier, API-driven, microservices, serverless).
• Hands-on experience in AWS Cloud platform (or similar), including core AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM and RDS. Familiar with cloud best practices, automation and monitoring tools within AWS.
• Experience with Symfony 5+, API RESTfull, JavaScript and front-end framework- ideally NuxtJS, VueJS 2/3, HTML5/CSS3, Responsive Web Design / Adaptive Design, BDD MySQL
• Soft Skills: Communication, stakeholder management, ability to translate technical concepts into business language. Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills: able to deliver concise & clear messages.
• Reliability: able to follow procedures and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Project management, leadership, autonomy
• Advanced fluency in English for both written and verbal communication
• University degree or equivalent work experience (bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent technical field is preferred)

Nice to have:

• Experience with Source Code management and integration tools like Github, API platforms, Quality tooling like Cypress, PhpStan, Monitoring tools like Sentry, Kibana, Knowledge on Elasticsearch, Experience with scrum and agile methodologies
• Experience with Web application security standards, GDPR, data privacy in digital contexts.
• Experience with composable commerce and API-first architectures is a strong plus; familiarity with MACH principles and modular design approaches is highly valued

Additional information:

If you are interested in the position, please send us your resume and our recruiters will reach out to you with more information. If you would like to have more details, please contact us at it-jobs@peoplefocus.rs

We are happy to meet you!