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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Enterprise Architect - **Company:** Marktplaats BV - **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Adobe InDesign, Amazon Web Services, Data Infrastructure, Elasticsearch, Github, Knowledge Management, MySQL, Software Architecture, RabbitMQ, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Datadog, Swift (Programming Language), Togaf, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Docker, Databricks - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5834768340 ## About the Role * At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, including 5+ years in an enterprise or software architecture role spanning multiple teams. * Proven track record of making governance and strategy practices stick in a product organisation, with living examples that still run without you. * Fluent at CTO-staff level, translating between commercial strategy and engineering reality in both directions. * Credibility built by working embedded in engineering teams, with a low tolerance for ivory-tower architecture and ceremonial process. * Experienced in reviving unmaintained artefacts (capability maps, principles, tech radars) by anchoring them to decisions teams already need to make. * A strong mentor for senior engineers and architects, raising the strategic thinking of those around you. * Sufficient technical depth to hold your own in design discussions on a large consumer platform running at scale, with real legacy. * Experience architecting consumer platforms at comparable scale. We serve over 8 million users, and the constraints at that volume differ from enterprise-scale systems. Bonus Points * Experience with marketplaces, e-commerce or other two-sided consumer platforms * Experience introducing distributed ownership models such as chapters, guilds or techlead structures * Familiarity with FinOps or cost-aware architecture * Exposure to EU regulatory work such as DSA or NIS2 * Working knowledge of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, without depending on them * Dutch is not required; we work in English ## Description * Refresh the business capability map and target-state architecture vision, connecting them to real investment decisions with PT-LT. * Rewrite the architecture principles and embed them where decisions actually happen: design reviews, ADRs, and a design authority with procedures that earn respect because they work. * Build a structured practice for tech debt visibility, deprecation, and system retirement, making the decision to stop running something as deliberate as the decision to build it. * Establish a lightweight tech radar with the tech leads, and mature the ADR and knowledge-management practice from recently cleaned up to structurally owned. * Coach architects and tech leads on strategic thinking, and anchor a local threat-modelling practice in partnership with central security., * Languages: Scala, Go and Java on the back end; Kotlin, Swift and TypeScript on the client side * Databases: MySQL on Aurora RDS and Cassandra, among others * Data platform: Databricks * Cloud: AWS * Other tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, GitHub, DataDog This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. 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