Product Group Architect B2C Face to Face

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally redefining our business and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and you will have the space to move your career forward in many different areas/directions. IT at PMI PMI’s journey to a smoke-free future implies a shift from a tobacco manufacturer to a science and technology-based consumer facing organisation. Such a shift creates an abundance of unique and progressive IT projects to match all levels of skills and ambitions. You’ll feel like you’re working in a start-up – with the freedom to shape and define the future of digital, but with the support and scope of a vast global business. You’ll get a chance to work with innovative technologies (e.g., Cloud, APIs, AI) as well as management practices (e.g., Agile, Design Thinking, Product Management). Our environment is fast-paced and highly collaborative. If you want the freedom to find new ways to connect with consumers, there’s no better place to progress your career. Digital at PMI is dynamic, diverse, and exciting. Join us and become a part of a top talent team where you can bring new ideas to life in a global function that is a key driver of the success of our business! Joining the Digital Products Portfolio The Digital Consumer Engagement Products portfolio plays a critical role in delivering PMI’s Smoke-Free Future. We are enabling digital services to our consumers, retailers and external audiences by building platforms to communicate our vision to broader society. Together with talent from multiple business and technology functions across our footprint, we are delivering a premium experience for our partners. When you join this team, you will work in a dynamic, diverse, and warm environment. You will be primarily focusing on defining your Digital Product vision, regularly engaging with your customers to gather feedback and understand their needs in order to improve value. You will be part of all stages of Digital Product incremental value delivery. The purpose of the role of Product Group Architect is to commercialize and expand our reduced risk products, and for that we are building and rolling out a new digital platform globally. Our consumer and retailer engagement digital platforms provide best-in-class experiences through our end-to-end consumer journeys, from product discovery, purchasing, device registration to after sales support. Product Group Architects are responsible for defining technology and architecture for new capabilities, improving, and simplifying current landscape and managing platforms non-functional requirements such as scalability, performance, and extensibility along with observability, but not limited to these only. Role profile Working with the Principal Domain Architect, you will be accountable for defining the technical roadmap to support the business strategy, guiding the product teams on the new technology and providing technical frameworks. You will also ensure the implementation of non-functional requirements, as well as reduction of technical debt. You will also influence and evangelize product group architecture to all partners. You are skilled in organisational change and horizontal leadership to evolve the practices of a significant team deploying global platforms. You’ll be building the cultural change redefining PMI from within. Your day-to-day will consist of, but not limited to: • Create capabilities roadmap that can be built & maintained within a product-based organization. • Set overall standards and direction in the business/technical domain, ensuring the right IT investments are made and elaborate the product group’s architecture baseline, target architecture, roadmap covering capabilities, applications, platforms, services, information, data, technologies. • In collaboration with Product Managers and Delivery Managers for the F2F B2C products, create Product Group’s vision and enable Product Teams to deliver value to the customers. • Define end-to-end solution architecture, where obligated, for products within the product group, using Salesforce and Interaction Management capabilities to address business requirements effectively. • Work closely with multi-functional teams to translate business designs into high-level architecture designs, considering factors such as scalability, security, and integration requirements and non-functional requirements. • Review low-level design documents and technical specifications produced by development teams, ensuring consistency to architectural guidelines, best practices, and standards. • Provide feedback and guidance to development teams to optimize design decisions, improve scalability, maintainability, and performance of the solutions. • Drive opportunities to improve architecture (e.g. opportunities to reduce duplication, consolidate applications and platforms, improve operational deficiencies, improve automation, close existing capability gaps, etc.) and take accountability to ensure product group architecture is in line with Security and Compliance policies and procedures. • Advise global business owners during business process definition to improve the usage of standard technology solution functionalities. • Work with multiple teams to define and improve the DevSecOps framework that must be adopted within your domain. What is needed to succeed in this Role? • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred. • 10+ years of experience in IT, with a strong background in software development and architecture. • 5+ years of experience working as an architect, with a consistent record of designing and delivering complex, end-to-end solutions. • Extensive experience architecting both front end and back-end systems using the latest technologies and frameworks, such as React, Angular, Node.js, Spring Boot, or Django. • Deep understanding of cloud computing platforms, microservices architecture, and RESTful APIs. • Proficiency in modern programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, or TypeScript. • Strong knowledge of database technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases. • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes. • Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively engage with partners at all levels of the organization. • Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with a passion for innovation, problem-solving, and continuous learning. • Using your excellent written and verbal communication skills, you can communicate complex technical concepts and solution designs to non-technical partners in a clear and understandable manner, fostering a shared understanding of the technical direction of the products. • Confident with the ability to influence and persuade. • Analytical and results focused. • Experience of both reacting to and solving problems. • An understanding of how complex matrixed organizations operate; global experience is a big advantage. Nice to have: • Expertise on modular/composable architecture, evolutionary architecture and working in a product-based setup. • Extensive experience delivering solutions within B2C & B2B domain including validated project contributions as a Solution Architect. • Validated experience as a consultant, with experience rolling out projects globally. • Involved with at least two end-to-end full lifecycle projects. What’s in it for you? There are many IT Organizations out there, so why should you join ours? We believe PMI IT’s true strength is fuelled by our people, and that our success depends on them coming to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. We are a people first organisation committed to providing you with first-class employee journey. Here’s a glimpse of what’s in it for you upon joining us: • Work-life balance: Wellbeing comes first. We offer a fantastic office environment and hybrid working options to ensure you have the best work-life balance possible • Learning & Development: Your growth is a priority. Our robust and varied learning & development ecosystem will help you strengthen your technical skills and enhance your soft skills and eye for business. The capabilities you will acquire with us will support your life-time employability within IT, PMI, and beyond • Inclusion & Diversity: Our differences - much more than our similarities - generate the innovation we are looking for. We aspire to build a diverse and inclusive organization to access the breadth and depth of thinking and sensitivity vital to thrive Every single IT colleague is part of our Transformation journey. Join us and pursue your ambitions – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. If this offer resonates with you, we look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you. Together, let’s deliver a smoke free future. #LI-Hybrid