Tech Lead Procure-to-Pay

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Job Description

Accor Tech & Digital is the innovation and technological transformation lab of the world leader in hospitality.

Our teams, known as Heartists®, bring together the best of hospitality with the best of tech and digital. Our ambition is to provide our customers with personalized, memorable, and sustainable experiences.

Here, we create new ways to travel within each of our 5,500 hotels, connecting closely with our 100 million clients in 110 countries.

Here, we are at the heart of an incredible playground for technological transition and the design of digital products and services for our customers and hotel teams.

Here, your scope will know no boundaries;

So join us and dare to make an impact on the world

Here is where your greatest challenge awaits you:

Accor's Commercial Digital & Tech organization brings together multidisciplinary teams including Product, Engineering, UX, Data, Security and Architecture. They create, deliver and continuously improve digital products and services supporting strategic business domains.

Within CD&T, the ASTORE technology scope supports Procurement activities and the relationships between internal teams, hotels and nominated suppliers. Procure-to-Pay solutions (AstoreShop, Birchstreet & Futurelog…) support the end-to-end procurement process, from supplier and catalogue integration through ordering, invoicing and payment.

The Tech Lead P2P is the technical counterpart of the P2P Product Lead. Working as a close Tech-Product pair, the role translates the product vision and business priorities into sound technical choices, a deliverable engineering backlog and reliable production services.

The Tech Lead P2P reports to the Senior Engineering Manager - ASTORE Digital Tools and provides day-to-day technical leadership to the P2P engineering team.

The role covers both the transformation toward the future P2P solution and the continuity of existing services during the transition, including integrations with hotels, suppliers, procurement applications and Accor enterprise platforms.

Your mission

1. Tech-Product partnership & technical leadership:

• Work in a close partnership with the P2P Product Lead to align product outcomes, business priorities, technical feasibility, risks, costs and delivery sequencing.
• Act as the day-to-day technical leader for the P2P squad and the main technical point of contact for Product, Procurement, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Support and Operations.
• Guide engineers and external contributors, facilitate technical decisions, remove technical blockers and promote ownership, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to discovery workshops, product demonstrations and stakeholder discussions by making technical impacts and trade-offs clear.
• Own the P2P solution design within the architecture principles and technology standards defined by Accor, the Senior Engineering Manager and the Architect Solutions.
• Translate functional needs and critical product flows into scalable, secure and operable solutions, technical enablers and prioritized engineering backlog items.
• Define and maintain the P2P technical roadmap covering architecture evolution, integrations, non-functional requirements, lifecycle management, security remediation, observability and technical debt reduction.
• Maintain architecture views, interface contracts, data flows, technical decisions, operational documentation and application lifecycle plans.
• Challenge SaaS providers and integration partners on solution design, APIs, data, security, performance, resilience, support model and readiness for the expected MVP and subsequent releases

3. Engineering delivery, quality & DevSecOps:

• Lead technical execution across design, build, configuration, integration, testing, release, migration and decommissioning activities.
• Provide technical estimates, identify dependencies and contribute to realistic delivery plans with the P2P Product Lead and delivery stakeholders.
• Ensure engineering quality through impact analysis, design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, release readiness and compliance with Accor engineering standards.
• Embed security, privacy, access control, auditability and data protection requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement of development practices, environments, automation, documentation and developer experience.
• Ensure techn