Lead Solution Architect

Job description / Role

Inspire | Exhilarate | Delight

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750 experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touchpoint leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse," which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners, and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What you'll be doing

As a Lead Solution Architect within our Group Technology function, you will drive the design and evolution of omnichannel retail and supply chain solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with business needs.

You will collaborate with Retail and Supply Chain teams to lead digital transformation, focusing on:

• Solution & technical architecture
• End-to-end design
• Product evaluation
• Technology impact assessment
• Solution blueprints (As-Is & To-Be)

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Lead high-level technical architecture and design for projects, working alongside development teams and external partners.
• Ensure timely escalation and resolution of architectural and design conflicts.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to Group Architecture principles.
• Evaluate third-party solutions, conducting detailed technical assessments and advising on their integration into our architecture landscape.
• Guide and collaborate with external development partners on low-level technical design and solution delivery.
• Work with business and technology subject-matter experts to translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Ensure solution designs align with the long-term IT strategic roadmap.
• Partner with other Solution Architects to develop scalable and adaptable architectural solutions, including peer reviews of deliverables.
• Present and evaluate project architecture and artifacts at technology governance forums to ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Lead Design Authority sessions to assess proposed designs against established standards and frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and contribute to the development of the Business Technology Strategy.

What you'll need to succeed

• You possess 8 to 12 years of experience in omnichannel retail & supply chain IT solutions.
• You are an expert in Retail ERP (Oracle, SAP Retail), WMS, Finance, POS, eCommerce, Order Fulfillment, and Supply Chain Execution.
• You have a strong knowledge of RDBMS, APIs, microservices, integration technologies, and cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• You have experience managing complex, multi-platform solutions and global IT projects.
• You possess strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• You have the ability to drive digital transformation and align solutions with business goals.

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We invite all applicants to apply

It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities, and perspectives to truly inspire, exhilarate, and delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.

Department: Tech
Role: Solution Architect

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.