Area Architect

The Recommendation & Search Area houses all expertise around personalized content recommendations and search within DPG Media. Our mission is to improve the relevance of our digital products to our customers by providing them with the content they want, whenever and wherever they want it. Additionally, we are engaged in various Machine Learning (ML) & Generative AI (GenAI) initiatives. We build internal developer platforms to facilitate ML engineers and provide a gateway to safely experiment with GenAI models.

**Role Overview**

The Area Architect plays a pivotal role in ensuring the architectural integrity and strategic alignment of solutions within the area. Focusing on quality attributes and Domain-Driven Design (DDD), this role ensures that teams' designs are coherent with area
- and enterprise-wide goals. As a solution and enterprise architect, the Area Architect facilitates the overall architectural vision and guides the Community of Practice within the area, ensuring consistency and optimization across different domains.

**Responsibilities**
- Model, maintain, and communicate the architectural vision and priorities of the area, encompassing requirements, guidelines, and constraints from multiple stakeholders (enterprise, other areas, area, business).
- Guide the Community of Practice within the area.
- Ensure consistency of architecture/design decisions within the area to achieve area-wide and enterprise-wide optimization.
- Serve as the final decision-maker when consensus cannot be reached in a timely or consistent manner within the area.
- Contribute to and commit to the enterprise town plan.
- Assist and facilitate both in Enterprise, Solution, and Technical architecture where and when appropriate.

**Profile**
- +3 years of experience in solution architecture
- Extensive experience with Domain-Driven Design and architectural best practices.
- Proven track record in modeling, maintaining, and communicating architectural visions and priorities.
- Strong leadership and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent communication skills to interact with stakeholders and facilitate community practices.
- Experience in guiding and coaching teams in architectural decision-making and consistency

**About the job**

The recommendation & search area consist of 4 teams: long form personalisation, news personalisation, search, GenAI platform and internal developer team. We have a combination of ML, SW and platform engineers building on different personalization products and other ML use-cases.

Our teams are based in Vilvoorde, Antwerp and Amsterdam. We work in an agile philosophy and are open to flexible working regimes. DPG Media is the local media champion, meaning you will work on some of the most impactful products around. We offer a competitive package in line with your experience and working regime.