Enterprise Architect (Microsoft stack .NET) to Vienna, Austria

Nature and aim of the position
Global Blue (“GB”, “We”, “Our”) is a multinational corporation operating in 40+ countries with more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry focussing on providing a variety of payment-related services to travellers, government agencies, merchants (270,000+), third party payments processors, airport operators and other travel-related service providers. We operate hundreds of existing business applications primarily from our dual Vienna, Austria data centres, presently concentrated within the Microsoft technology stack. We are seeking two technology architects capable of:
(i) supporting the definition and design of enterprise-wide services, utilities, and major common database models;
(ii) defining the steady but gradual reengineering plans to migrate from our existing applications and services to the evolving future state, and; (iii) supporting our existing nine engineering teams located in 3 global development sites to deliver their respective application solutions within the framework of the end-to-end Global Blue architecture.

Main duties and responsibilities
- Work within a small team of 4-5 peer architects/designers/subject-matter-experts focusing on the definition, design and rollout of common services (SOA), major shared databases (transactional, operational and business intelligence), messaging and transaction processing standards and integration (EAI), the enterprise service bus (“ESB”), and other specific (typically Microsoft-centric) utilities and support software
- Responsible to learn/understand the “as is” suite of Global Blue applications and existing enterprise-wide utilities and services in order to understand the starting point of our evolving architecture and transformative engineering efforts while gradually increasing the level of commonality and standardization across the engineering units
- Working closely with the Infrastructure and Operations (“I&O”) division responsible for the production operation of our Vienna data centres, support the testing, deployment and operation of end-to-end (“E2E”) application utilities, services, frameworks and databases as they support the individual applications and engineering units
Participate as an invited member in specific agile development meetings and workshops as required by the responsible product manager and/or technical lead (e.g. design sessions, backlog and sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, etc.), with a consistent focus on and participation with the engineering unit(s) responsible for the development and deployment of the EA-defined end-to-end services and databases
- Work closely and cooperatively with each engineering unit to ensure that the necessary enterprise standards and services are gradually introduced within each unit’s agile development methodology and prioritized sprint deliverables. Focus most closely with the lead developer in each engineering unit to ensure that unit-specific solution/application architecture is appropriate and supportive of the end-to-end enterprise architecture and standards.
- Serve as the subject-matter-expert in selective EA components (e.g. data modeller/expert in corporate-wide databases (e.g. merchant, ODS, traveller), BizTalk ESB, common integration and messaging services, etc.)
- Work with the VP, EA to ensure that all key corporate initiatives and priorities are properly defined, designed, and introduced into the engineering unit backlogs with proper coordination and corporate oversight

Anticipated division of work:
- Hands on Architecture, Design, R&D: 60%
- Engineering Team Participation/Support: 20%
- Infrastructure and Operations Support: 10%
- Miscellaneous Support/Admin Activities: 10%

We offer
• Work in fast growing international company
• Development and potential to grow
• Benefits
o Employee referral program
o Team-building, Team events, Christmas party

If you are interested in this position please send us your English CV.