Backend architect

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 to this transformation. You will join a multi-cultural, dynamic and caring team working all together and 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 will develop 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 are 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
1. The Digital factory, as part of the Direct to Pet Owner organization, works in strong partnership with Marketing and sales team and Innovation team.


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


The Backend Architect will work in close cooperation with Delivery leads and their team, Architects, DevOps, support team, product owners, Quality&Security lead.

* He/She will work in close partnership with external partners and delivery to get the functional or technical support required.
* He/She will have to manage all backend developers working on Royal Canin Global digital ecosystem (> 20 FTE).


Experience working with:

* Node.js application development (Nest.js framework)
* Microservices application development
* MongoDB Database
* MACH architecture
* Event driven architecture.
* Application Architecture
* Solution Architecture (preferred)
* Enterprise Architecture understanding
* CI/CD & DevOps understanding
* Azure Cloud (as preferred or AWS and GCP)
* CommerceTools knowledge will be nice to have
* Digital Business (including eCommerce)
* Agile Methodology (preferred)


What can you expect from Mars?

* Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
* Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
* Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
* An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.