Senior Integration Architect & Tech Team Lead

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer every person around the world the best of beautyin terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. At L'Oréal, our IT teams design and build solutions to ensure high performance for all our business sectors by imagining new ways of doing things, from designing websites to building algorithms and predicting new trends . They can be found leading teams towards a more connected and digitalized future in IT retail, e-commerce, CRM, data, AI, cybersecurity, Cloud and E-Marketing. You never stop learning at L'Oréal IT because things change at the speed of light! Come join our dynamic team!

To stimulate our Beauty Tech transformation, we have created the Tech Factory team, a product delivery organization (startup inside the big ship) to deliver transversal use cases that will drive the tech transformation of the group, covering all business and functional domains under a network of international hubs.

Main Responsibilities:

• Team lead role managing technical team for project delivery. Architecture design Integration flow and oversee all project development status and drive team to reach delivery excellence
• Perform technical team lead duties through design, build and maintain integration solutions using REST APIs, ESB, IPaaS, EDA/Microservices, and cloud technologies.
• Responsible for defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural standpoint.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications, including Blueprint documentation. Create and maintain specifications, documents, test plans and scripts.
• Architect and develop prototypes and demonstrate various alternatives for functional business requirements for a wide audience range.
• Resolve defects discovered during all phases of development and maintenance including severity 1 production issues.
• Define and enforce integration standards, coding practices, and technical documentation across the integration landscape.
• Mentor junior developers and promote best practices in integration development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Building relationships with clients and in practice development activities
• Acting as key point of contact and work cross functionally with all product delivery leads on providing solution architecture decisions.
• Partnering with Enterprise architecture, Security and global teams through an alliance relationship and owning the technology solution topics around integration topics

Skills Required:

• Degree (Bachelor or Masters) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of proven experience as a Software Development Lead, Integration Architect and/or as Software developer
• Outstanding functional and technical communication skills and demonstrated business and IT collaboration.
• Hands on/working knowledge of most environments described below is required:
  - In-depth and hands-on knowledge of APIGEE, Workato, API Gateway, ESB, EMS, TIBCO BW, MFT, ETL, Confluent Kafka
  - Tibco Business Works 6.x, Enterprise Message Service (EMS)
  - Cloud Computing (AWS/Azure/GCP)
  - Knowledge of Container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes/Docker) is a plus.
  - Knowledge of Microservices and/or JAVA/Python is a plus.
  - 5+ years in technical team manaement and people management experience

• Industry knowledge/experience within Supply Chain, Sales, e-commerce, loyalty, CRM, retail, mobile apps
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects and strong ability to influence others.
• Agile/Product experience is a plus.
• API gateway/ESB certification preferred
• Proficient in relational data modeling concepts and implementations.
• Innovator with quick absorption of new technologies; strong understanding of technology solutions.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work as a member of cross functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Are you ready for your next challenge? Want to join a passionate and dynamic team at the forefront of Beauty Tech? Looking for the chance to grow and develop inside a leading world organization? This is a fantastic opportunity to build the products that will shape the future of beauty at the L’Oréal Group.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.