Are you a problem solver? Do you have a passion for providing superior service?
Groupon is an experienced marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events, and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun, and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

Our enterprise ecosystem:

• Applications: Netsuite, Workday, Salesforce, Anaplan, Avalara, …

• Data: Teradata, BigQuery, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search

• ETL/BI: Airflow, Hadoop/GCP DataProcs, Keboola, Apache Nifi, Alteryx, Tableau

• Middlewares: Snaplogic, ActiveMQ, Kafka

• Several proprietary applications and middleware extensions

• Platforms: AWS, GCP

• Infra: Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Capistrano

• Observability: Splunk, ELK, Sumologic, Wavefront (Grafana), Prometheus/Thanos

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Architectural Design and Strategy

  • Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap.

  • Ensure alignment of architecture with business objectives and IT strategy.

  • Lead the architecture review board and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and overall architecture governance processes, with a focus on simplicity and a frugality mindset

  • Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and best practices.

• Ecosystem integration

  • Work within a multi-faceted ecosystem, integrating various technologies and platforms.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify requirements and design scalable, reliable, and secure solutions.

  • Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools for integration.

• Application Architecture

  • Oversee the integration and optimization of applications such as Netsuite, Workday, Salesforce, Anaplan, and Avalara.

  • Ensure seamless communication and data flow between applications and other system components.

• Collaboration with our Data Management teams on 

  • Architecture and management of data solutions using Teradata, BigQuery, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other database technologies

  • Data governance, data quality, and data security best practices.

  • BI best practices using tools such as Airflow, Keboola, Alteryx, and Tableau, and experience with Data Mesh is a bonus.

We’re excited about you if you have:

• At least 10+ years experience in enterprise architecture

• Good knowledge of most of the aforementioned technologies and applications

• Development experience with service-oriented architectures/microservices

• Proven experience in designing and implementing complex IT solutions, preferably with cost optimization

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Experience of technical/architecture coaching, mentoring and developing staff 

• Track record of building and shipping new customer and merchant experiences.

• Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

• Master’s / Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

• Relevant certifications in enterprise architecture (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) would be nice

Must have experience:

• Sound experience in Netsuite and Salesforce

• Integration middleware  experience

• GCP or AWS, and Data warehouse expertise

We value engineers who are:
•    Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
•    Obsessed with quality: Your production code just works & scales linearly
•    Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.
•    Fast learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.
•    Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings, always check our official careers website at grouponcareers.com.