Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Design and drive solution architecture for China Consumer Hub (CRM, adiClub and MAP) capabilities, enabling a unified consumer view and consistent omni-channel experiences across retail stores, eCommerce, and digital touchpoints. This role shapes end-to-end architectures and integration patterns spanning consumer identity, loyalty/membership, customer service, marketing journeys and personalization. In addition to technology components, solution architecture encompasses changes to service, process, organization and operating models. The role provides comprehensive guidance on new solution development and modifications to ensure alignment with relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security), and ensures existing and planned components remain compatible, scalable and operable. Key Responsibilities: Specialist advice <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the organization's planning and operations.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Recognizes and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Collaborates with other specialists, where appropriate, to ensure advice given is appropriate to the needs of the organization.</li> </ul> Research <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Within given research goals, builds on and refines appropriate outline ideas for research, including evaluation, development, demonstration and implementation. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Applies standard methods to collect and analyses quantitative and qualitative data. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Creates research reports to communicate research methodology and findings and conclusions. Contributes sections of material of publication quality. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Uses available resources to update knowledge of any relevant field and curates a personal collection of relevant material. Participates in research communities.</li> </ul> Emerging technology monitoring <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Supports monitoring of the external environment and assessment of emerging technologies to evaluate the potential impacts, threats and opportunities to the organization. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Contributes to the creation of reports, technology road mapping and the sharing of knowledge and insights.</li> </ul> Solution architecture <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Own end-to-end solution architecture for China Consumer Hub (CRM), covering consumer profile, consent/preferences, loyalty/membership, customer service and omni-channel engagement.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Define target architecture, domain boundaries and API/integration patterns with eCommerce, POS/store systems, marketing automation, data platform and identity services.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Identify and evaluate alternative architectures and trade-offs (cost, performance, scalability, availability, security) and ensure compliance with relevant standards and China market requirements.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Produce architecture and component/interface specifications and support delivery via technical planning, design reviews and hands-on guidance to unblock complex implementation/integration topics.</li> </ul> Requirements definition and management <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Prioritizes requirements and documents traceability to source. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Reviews requirements for errors and omissions. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Provides input to the requirements base-line. Investigates, manages and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.</li> </ul> Software design <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Undertakes complete design of moderately complex software applications or components applying agreed standards, patterns and tools. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Assists as part of a team in the design of components of larger software systems. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Specifies user and/or system interfaces. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Creates multiple design views to address the concerns of the different stakeholders of the design and to handle separately functional and non-functional requirements. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Assists in the evaluation of options and trade-offs. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate.</li> </ul> Programming/software development <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends and refactors moderately complex programs/scripts. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Applies agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Collaborates in reviews of work with others as appropriate.</li> </ul> Data modelling and design <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Applies data analysis, design, modelling, and quality assurance techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of business processes, to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions). </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Advises database designers and other application development team members on the details of data structures and associated components.</li> </ul> Database design <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Develops and maintains specialist knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, design principles, architectures, software and facilities. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Assesses proposed changes to object/data structures, in order to evaluate alternative options. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Implements physical database designs to support transactional data requirements for performance and availability. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Implements data warehouse designs that support demands for business intelligence and data analytics.</li> </ul> Systems integration and build <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Defines the software modules needed for an integration build and produces a build definition for each generation of the software. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Accepts completed software modules, ensuring that they meet defined criteria. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Produces software builds from software source code for loading onto target hardware. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Configures the hardware and software environment as required by the system being integrated. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Produces integration test specifications, conducts tests and records and reports on outcomes. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Diagnoses faults and records and reports on the results of tests. Produces system integration reports.<a name="_Hlk531341574"></a></li> </ul> If required: People Management / Resource Management: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">May be involved and gives some input on hiring Transition decisions </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development </li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency</li> <li style="text-align:justify;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.</li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives </li> </ul> Key Relationships: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Global IT</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">HR Management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif">Controlling</li> </ul> Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Four-year college or university degree with focus on software engineering or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Proficient spoken and written command of English </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">At least 8-year experience in IT </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">5 years of experience in relevant area</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">1 year of experience in team management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Understanding of different culture</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Participated in projects with people from other functions/markets</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Hands-on Java development experience with strong software engineering and design practices (OO design, testing, refactoring, code reviews).</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Experience designing and delivering distributed and high concurrency / traffic systems (API-first, microservices, event-driven integration) with performance and reliability in mind.</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Experience in CRM and/or eCommerce platforms and retail industry is a plus (consumer profile, loyalty, customer service, omni-channel engagement).</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Solid understanding of integration and data fundamentals (Kafka/messaging, caching, relational and NoSQL modelling).</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Cloud understanding with practical exposure to AWS and/or Alibaba Cloud; familiar with CI/CD and observability. </li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;Times New Roman', serif;text-indent:4.4px">Incorporate AI/ML capabilities (e.g., personalization, recommendation, predictive analytics, GenAI-powered customer engagement) into solution architecture where relevant.</li> </ul>

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