Frontend 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 in this transformation. You will join a multi-cultural, dynamic and caring team working 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 develops 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 is 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 the Marketing and Sales team and the Innovation team.

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

What are we looking for?

• 7 to 15 years' experience in Frontend 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 negotiation skills
• Fluent in English

What will be your key responsibilities?

The role of Frontend Architect for supervising Angular/React Developers entails leading, guiding, and supervising multiple development teams working on projects utilizing Node.js, Angular, and/or React technologies. The Frontend 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 Frontend Architect, you will have to:

Leadership:

• Establish the software architecture of your project or steer it in a different direction, in alignment with the technical direction of the project.
• Oversee the quality of what is produced by your team.
• Communicate on technical matters, leveraging your expertise and contributing to the visibility of your team's expertise.
• Ensure internal coordination between your teams and other teams involved in the project.
• Ensure the flow of information and validate, if necessary, the various technical actions to be taken.
• Propose the right design based on functional and business challenges, advocating for your choices in front of the stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor multiple development teams in designing, implementing, and maintaining software solutions based on Angular, and/or React.
• Design and define the technical architecture of applications, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Collaborate closely with development teams, Delivery Leads, and PO to understand business requirements and define appropriate technical solutions.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and development conventions within the teams.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks throughout the development lifecycle.

Meetings:

• Synchronization with frontend 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, etc.)
• 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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