Enterprise Architect Online Services

Amsterdam - as a Domain/Enterprise Architect you will help us in guiding the path towards a reduced tech stack. We have a vision of where we want to be and we need you to help us get there. 

Who are we ? 
DPG Media is the biggest media house of The Netherlands and Belgium. On a daily basis, our content impacts millions of readers, viewers and listeners. It contains newspapers like De Volkskrant, Trouw, Parool and Algemeen Dagblad, music stations like Q Music and television channels like VTM. But it also has a digital arm called DPG On-line Services that guides visitors to the right product for them with genuine advice and inspiration. Famous digital brands that are part of On-line Services are:

• Independer, the comparison website that helps you find the right insurance, loan, energy contract or telco product for you. Active in the Netherlands and Belgium

• Autotrack, Autowereld en Gaspedaal, car classifieds that help you find the right car for you in a worry-free way

• Nationale Vacaturebank and Intermediair, job classifieds that help you to find the right new job for you

• Mijn Energie, Mijn Telco, Spaargids, Wikipower and Livios, leading comparison websites in Belgium
  

Our landscape within DPG Online Services
Currently we have 15 customer facing brands and 13 tech stacks within Online Services. Broadly you can categorize the stacks in 3 different types of stacks:

• Classifieds: like Autowereld, Autotrack, Nationale vacaturebank.

• Comparison websites: like Independer and MijnEnergie.

• 3-C brands (Content, Community and Conversion): like Tweakers, Autoweek, VT Wonen.
  

To give you a taste of the stacks, here's an overview that gives you a very high level glance of the types of technology used across all stacks.

In practice, we often have multiple different stacks per category and there is limited sharing across the stacks. It is good to note that several harmonisation and smart re-usage efforts have already been initiated and delivered. E.g.:

• The Car Classifieds are sharing a ‘chassis’ of back-end services.
• Independer in the Netherlands and Belgium basically share the same stack.
• The 3C brands share a brand new modular platform.

Our challenge for you
To facilitate our smart growth ambition, we need to have a clearer vision on our desired stack(s) of the future. Plus a clear view on how we will best grow in that direction. In other words: translate the current landscape to a future proof architecture to support the short and long-term business goals.

• We welcome your critical and thorough look at our different stacks to identify opportunities. 

• Where can we benefit from each other? But also, where do we think coordination costs more than it brings?  

• Given that the stacks have in many cases grown over 20 years to the success they are today this will probably be closer to evolution than revolution. In this evolution you will play a vital role by guiding, coaching and sharing knowledge with the domain architects to streamline best practices and come to an overarching architectural vision.

• We would like to benefit from your experience with larger scale transitions. This should be facilitated by foreseeing architectural vision, insights in the current AS-IS situation and transitional architectures towards a TO-BE setup taking opportunities and risks into account. These transitions should be thoroughly described including benefits, costs and effective and feasible migration planning.

• We trust in you to follow up the implementation phases and adjust or escalate where and if necessary. Contextual or strategic changes should always be evaluated against the overall architectural change approach and timings.

With us, you’ll get an inspiring work environment that’s constantly evolving. Colleagues who think in terms of possibilities, see the glass as half full, and we give you the chance to develop yourself every day. We do this, among other things, through our DPG Campus / DPG Academy. This gives you every opportunity to bring out the best in yourself and be a true media maker!

💰 A salary that matches your work experience, between €3.854 and €7.743 per month.
📝 A 36-hour workweek (depending on contract type)
💰 8% holiday pay and 4% personal choice budget
💰 Annual profit sharing based on DPG Media’s performance
🎓 Opportunities for development, both on the job and online through our DPG Academy / DPG Campus
🎉 Opportunity to customize your own cultural holidays!

More reasons to want to work at DPG Media (NL)
At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 strong news brands, magazines, TV shows, radio stations, and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, VTM, and more. We reach over 90% of the Dutch population and 8 out of 10 Flemings every month. We offer you a professional work environment where we highly value freedom. We give you all the space to work on your future by offering workshops and training. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, a learner, and a team player with us, and most importantly, feel free to be yourself. At DPG Media, everyone is welcome. So, apply, regardless of your background. Over 5,500 smart colleagues are eager to welcome you into a team, whether it’s a project team, a pub quiz team, or a sports team.

Discover what we have to offer. And, while you’re at it, you can also find us on LinkedIn and X.

Applying, and then?
Are you ready to get started? Apply now! You’ll receive a response to your application within 10 working days, letting you know whether you’re in the first selection round. If you are, we’ll contact you by phone to schedule an appointment at our office in Amsterdam. Want to know more? Contact Tino (Recruiter) via email: tino.moolenaar@dpgmedia.nl

We like to do our own recruitment and do not wish to collaborate with agencies to fill this role.