Head of Architecture, TheFork
+ Bonus + Equity
3+ days a week in office
Online restaurant reservation platform
Be an early applicant
Online restaurant reservation platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus + Equity
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's favourite restaurants and the broadest community of loyal diners.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive Experience in Architecture: Significant expertise in software, cloud, or data architecture, including hands-on work in enterprise-level architectural design and implementation
- Proven Leadership Skills: Strong track record (5+ years) in managing technical teams, with a focus on mentoring, growth, and developing future leaders
- In-depth Cloud Knowledge: Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP), enterprise architecture frameworks, and large-scale distributed systems
- Data Architecture Proficiency: Skilled in data architecture and integration patterns, with experience in designing scalable, data-driven solutions
- Collaborative Mindset: Demonstrated success working with cross-functional teams and engaging stakeholders to achieve aligned goals
- Agile Expertise: Solid understanding of agile methodologies, with the flexibility to manage multi-team projects and adapt to evolving business needs
- Bilingual Communication Skills: Fluent in both French and English, with excellent communication skills
- Strategic and Solution-Oriented: A proactive problem-solver who can balance immediate needs with long-term objectives
What the job involves
- As the Head of Architecture, a key leadership role, you will shape long-term architectural standards and drive cross-functional alignment to elevate our technical vision.
- You will directly report to the Platform Engineering Director, collaborating closely with DevOps, Quality, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and the CTO office
- Lead, Mentor, and Develop the Architecture Team: Inspire a team of skilled architects to uphold technical coherence, security standards, and collaboration across functions. Foster a culture of excellence and innovation, providing mentorship and development to build a strong pipeline of future architectural leaders
- Define & Implement Technical Strategy: Craft & Execute a Scalable Technical Strategy across software, cloud, and data architectures, with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability. Advocate for the best technology solutions, whether building in-house or leveraging external services
- Support Data Architecture Initiatives: Collaborate with data teams to ensure our architecture supports data lake and warehouse solutions, driving data governance and supporting analytics capabilities across the organization
- Champion Enterprise Architecture Practices: Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles to support scalability, security, and data integrity across the platform
- Collaborate Transversally Across Teams: Work closely with stakeholders in Product, Data Science, DevOps, and Engineering to align technical solutions with business objectives, ensuring cross-departmental alignment and high-impact outcomes
- Foster a Culture of Innovation & Quality: Lead by example to promote a collaborative and growth-oriented environment, supporting continual learning and improvement within the team
- Animate transversal teams: Animate and facilitate transversal initiatives and communities/guilds
Our take
TheFork's platform plays a significant role in the digitisation of the hospitality industry by offering users a seamless way to select restaurants based on their preferences, read user reviews, check real-time availability, and make instant online reservations.
In addition to serving customers, TheFork also partners with restaurants by providing them with TheFork Manager, a software solution designed to optimise reservation management and streamline operations, This software helps restaurants improve their service and boost revenues by making their operations more efficient and responsive to customer demands.
A TripAdvisor company, TheFork has made significant contributions ot the global dining industry, partnering with 60,000 restaurants, achieving 30M app downloads, and attracting over 400M users. Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2022, the company has cemented itself as a top player in the space, with future projects including a product for small and family-run restaurants, to support them as the industry becomes more competitive and complex.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)
- Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week + up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to wrok fully remotely)
- Lunch vouchers available 3 working days per week
- Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc
- Continuous learning and development programs
- Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey
- Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid)
- Health insurance
- Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee
- Attractive pension plans
- Amazing offices with dining, a coffee point on each floor, and leisure area
- Team building events
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
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Leadership
Almir Ambeskovic
(CEO, not founder)Prior to being appointed as CEO, they were Vice President of Sales and Marketing for TheFork. They have also directly led several countries as General Manager at TheFork since 2015.
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