Location: London or Warsaw

At The Stepstone Group, we help everyone get the job that best fits their life. Whether it is the next step in their career, or a job to pay the bills - we exist to match lifestyles with livelihoods.  

We play our part by giving people everything they need to find the right job for them in that moment; making jobs work for more people, whatever they do, and however they choose to do it. 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at Totaljobs is critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent on the market. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of your background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application or interviewing, please let us know.

We also have a hybrid approach! Work from home 2 days and 3 days at the office!

A critical component to our company strategy is modernizing our technology stack and platforms. This includes democratization of data, insights, and intelligence to power every product experience and user journey. If our vision is exciting for you, we are looking for a VP Architecture (m/f/d) to lead delivery of strategic platform initiatives and technology capabilities to unlock future business growth and potential.

Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, this position offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect with a robust background in SaaS solutions. The role demands a commitment to achieving exceptional customer satisfaction while aligning with the technical architecture vision. Collaborating closely with our Product and Tech teams, you will be tasked with crafting the architectural framework for our Global Platform. 

Responsibilities of the role:

Architectural Design:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive enterprise architectural framework that aligns with the Stepstone group’s strategy and goals.
• Lead a high-performing architecture team in modernizing customer facing digital technologies and upgrading existing SaaS platforms.
• Model enterprise level requirements, processes, information, and constraints.
• Head processes and artifacts that drive continuous alignment between business, technology, and between distributed teams. 

Technology Strategy:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and provide strategic guidance on technology investments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and trends to inform the company's technology roadmap.
• Model and evaluate total cost of operations for architectures and technologies.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with product management, development, operations, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of architectural solutions.
• Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and foster a shared understanding of architectural decisions.

Documentation and Governance:

• Create and maintain architectural documentation, ensuring that it reflects the current state of systems and applications.
• Establish and enforce architectural governance processes to maintain consistency and quality.
• Establish architectural practices and standards.
• Own observability of architectural quality and utilization of standards.

Leadership:

• The VP Architecture will lead a team of enterprise architects to support the business in achieving the strategy.

Skills, know-how and experience:

• 10+ years of experience in Technology with a minimum of 6 years in a Technical Architect capacity, having also supervised technical architects/resource management.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect in the 2sided markets, online advertising, HR systems,  SaaS industry, highly preferred.
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable and secure SaaS solutions.
• Expertise with AWS and cloud native architectures and technologies
• Proven successes with distributed applications, API design, microservices
• Experienced with leading the development of enterprise and architectural standards.
• Background in agile and scaled agile teams, systems, and architectural practices.
• Ability to create artifacts and processes. 
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with remote/geographically distributed teams.
• Ability to lead effectively and collaborate as a cross-functional peer.
• Analytical and process-oriented with an innovation mindset.
• Adept at making decisions and anticipating roadblocks with minimal information.
• Superior communication, analytical, organizational, and presentation skills.

Benefits and Rewards:

We believe in giving recognition to our employees, so if you are interested to find out more, please look at the The Stepstone Group career site.

• Holiday - We feel work-life balance is important, so we offer every single one of our employees 29 days holiday a year, plus public holidays.  Everyone also has the option to buy or sell up to three days each year in our Holiday Flex scheme. 
• Family Leave - We understand that laying the foundations for a smooth start to family leave will also make for an easier transition back to the workplace and subject to qualifying criteria, the benefits under the Company Family schemes are more generous than required under current legislation.
• Pension Scheme - To help our people plan for their future we offer an excellent pension scheme.
• Medical - Access to digital GP and well-being services.
• Charity - Each employee receives x2 additional days off every year to volunteer to charitable causes. We also give our employees the chance to 'give as they earn' meaning they can donate tax-free to a registered charity, and The Stepstone Group will match their contribution up to a value of £10 per month.

When you apply for a role with us you will be asked to complete an equal opportunities questionnaire. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to reach out to one of the team.