IT Research & Innovation Domain Architect

Description:
Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech!
L'Oréal is the world's leading beauty company, present in 150+ countries with €44+ billion in sales and 40+ global brands. With more than 2,500 tech positions, Beauty Tech is at the heart of our transformation: we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future, and we keep welcoming curious, skilled and passionate minds in Data, AI, Digital, Cloud, Cybersecurity, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure.
A glimpse of your day as an IT R&I Domain Architect
At L'Oréal IT Research & Innovation, we work at the intersection of Beauty, Science and Technology. We leverage data, AI and digital solutions to help 4,000+ researchers worldwide discover new promising ingredients, design better, greener formulas faster, assess their safety and efficacy, turning breakthrough science into the beauty of tomorrow.
As a Domain Architect, you will steer the architecture of key initiatives, from early framing to delivery, and through them shape the target state of the domain. Involved early, where decisions matter most, you will influence choices across many projects, so that each one meets today's needs while building the R&I landscape of tomorrow.
What will be your day to day?

• Solution architecture: Steer the design & architecture of strategic initiatives - frame the problem, identify stakes, risks and realistic solution options, drive pragmatic decisions (including buy vs build) and record them.
• Domain coherence: Help define the target state of the R&I domain through the choices you influence across projects. Spot gaps, duplication, dependencies and lifecycle risks, and feed recommendations on where to invest, consolidate or retire. Adapt the level and depth of review to each initiative's stakes and risks.
• Principles & standards: Write the principles, standards and reusable patterns that help good decisions scale beyond a single project.
• Constructive challenge: Challenge Business and IT decisions that create material risk, cost or lock-in, and make sure significant decisions and deviations are visible, intentional and owned.
• Delivery & partners: Stay close to tech leads and delivery teams through implementation and adapt when reality challenges assumptions. Build strong relationships with our technology partners.
• AI-ready architecture: Help reinvent how we practise architecture for the AI era and share knowledge with the IT R&I community.

And what are the key skills in this position for you to succeed?
First and foremost, we love people who are positive, curious, collaborative, and eager to have an impact. For this role, we expect a solid technical background, strong business acumen and strong soft skills.
Secondly, it will be great if you can show us the following skills and experiences:

• Architecture experience: Proven hands-on experience as a Solution Architect (at least 2 years), or as a tech lead who has moved into architecture, on complex, cross-functional initiatives. Exposure to information systems or portfolio-level topics is a plus.
• Technical breadth & credibility: Solid foundations in Architecture, Software (preferably JavaScript, Node.js, .NET, React or Python), Data (relational, non-relational or graph databases, data platforms and data architecture), AI (MLOps, AI engineering, GenAI and agentic AI: orchestration with Google ADK, MCP and A2A protocols, evaluation...), Integration (APIs, event-driven architecture, distributed systems), Cloud (Azure, GCP) and Security.
• Business acumen: Ability (or openness and curiosity) to understand business processes and objectives, ideally in R&D or another science-driven environment.
• Decision-making: Sound architectural judgement and the ability to drive and own decisions in complex environments.
• Influence & communication: Excellent communication and stakeholder (Leadership, Business, IT...) management skills, and the ability to influence without formal authority. French and English speaking preferred.
• AI-augmented engineering: Familiarity with AI-augmented SDLC practices and tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot).

Sounds like a good fit? Apply now!
Joining L'Oréal means joining a company that:

• Invests in Tech and positions its Tech teams at the heart of its digital transformation strategy.
• Allows its employees to have a real impact, to test their ideas, to innovate, and to build our future.
• Offers a Hybrid Work Policy: 3 days in office, 2 days working from home.
• Provides many benefits: VIP staff shop offering our products at a preferential rate, a company restaurant & gym, 60% reimbursement of transportation subscription, a works council offering lots of employee discounts (social & cultural activities, holiday vouchers, etc.) and much more!
• Delivers a powerful and innovative HR policy: dynamic mobility policy, significant investment in employee training, regular re-evaluation of remuneration, numerous innovative measures: Time Savings Account, paternity leave, Citizen Day, etc.
• Is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate, and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That's the beauty of L'Oréal.
• Interview with Talent Acquisition Manager
• Interview with the hiring manager and/or CTO (30 min)
• Architecture case study with the team (1 hour)
• Interview with the HR Team

We will be delighted to exchange with you!