Solutions Architect

Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech
For more than a century, L'Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: Beauty. Present in 150 countries across five continents and with EUR42 billion consolidated sales, L'Oréal is the global industry leader. With 37 global beauty brands across four divisions, L'Oréal offers beauty for each covering all beauty categories and catering to all beauty desires. With the acquisition of the Australian brand Asop in 2023, the Group continues to expand its portfolio through targeted acquisitions as part of its drive to create the future of beauty.
Today, L'Oréal includes more than 2,000 tech positions and is constantly growing. Beauty Tech is changing the game and leading the shift towards new consumer realities and a digital disruption. Championing Beauty Tech, we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future.
Beauty Tech is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. Beauty Tech equips the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic. With this ambition, L'Oréal continues to recruit diverse, innovative, skilled and passionate minds in different tech domains such as Data, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure.
What you'll be doing
The Solutions Architect is responsible of designing solutions within the domain Operations & Finance Technical Architecture, to provide support to functional domains of Operations & Finance bringing expertise in solution implementation and to Build framework and pattern to accelerate delivery and to bring more efficiency and quality (DevOps / automation / Landscape design ).
The responsibilities of the Solution Architect include gathering requirements and functional specifications, evaluating existing solution systems to identify areas for improvement and to validate the design of solutions to be compliant with L'Oreal rules. The Solution Architect works with the Group's teams in charge of Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure and Integration Center of Enablement (COE) and will work closely with run teams to bring continuous improvement
Main challenges specific to this position
- Design, describe, and manage the Solution in relation to specific business opportunities or Problems
- Assessing technical architecture currently in place for the domain and working with Application staff to recommend solutions to improve it (Quality and performance).
- Explain complex problems in simple terms

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
First and foremost, we love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact, proactive and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit.
Secondly, in this specific position, it will be important for you to have:
Transversal Skills
Must have
- Ability to understand the business of L'Oréal: assimilates the overall business strategy of the company, the long-term needs of users / customers and know-hows to translate them into IT strategy
- Efficient communication skills.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills
- Ability to convert business requirements to business processes and technical designs.
- Ability to work in a team-based setting and alone in a worldwide environment.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.
- Leadership experience
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, including those used to define the stages of a project and implement action plans (Waterfall and Agile)

Nice to have
- Business knowledge in manufacturing / Supply chain / finance domain will be appreciated
- Ability to handle complex situations and act through transversal skills
- Entrepreneurship: ability to think innovatively, evaluate and propose new ideas and solutions, while maintaining a pragmatic attitude
- Decoding and strength of conviction: ability to generate effective interaction, convince and reconcile to gain ownership and reach a positive and accepted conflict resolution
- Ability to promote a collaborative team environment and work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to achieve goals in different sectors, countries and cultures to achieve common objectives
- A sense of urgency, the ability to make good decisions, and the prioritization of tasks is necessary

Technical Skills
Must have
- Experience in various software designs, languages, and architecture especially in SAP context
- Strong experience in ABAP programming and best development practices, knowledge of HANA and FIORI would be an advantage
- Solution definition and problem-solving skills.
- Practical experience in project management.
- Familiarity with computer networks and IT security management.
- Experience and knowledge of cloud computi