Architect, Solution Architecture

Solution Architect – 3PL Operations

Do you want to be a part of the world’s leading jewellery company while putting your experience in Integration Engineering and IT into use? If yes, then we might have an exciting opportunity for you! You will be part of an exciting digital & tech area and work in an international organisation of can-do spirited, passionate, and performance-driven people. We value flexibility and informal working, where you are trusted to deliver and to focus on outcomes, outputs and value delivered.

About the Team

Pandora is embarking on an ambition path to deliver on our Digital strategy to build an agile end-to-end supply chain delivery. We are embracing a scaled Agile structured around product teams with clear focus on outcomes. Strong and passionate Solution Architect is a key component of realizing these ambitions. In this newly created role, you will support the shaping of our engineering and software development practices. This is a hands-on technical role, you will help deliver the Continuous Integration and Deployment pipeline, from requirements to specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of the production health. The main outcomes are focused on enabling our engineers to ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support.

The Solution Architect will be called upon to provide leadership, coaching and motivation to the architecture and engineering teams and will need strong communication skills to work closely with the product teams and key stakeholders. You will help deliver quality automated CI/CD pipelines, from early requirements to test and behaviour driven development, whilst maintaining operational stability, high coding standards, together with supporting quality deployments, monitoring of the tech stack and overall production health.

The main outcomes are focused on enabling our engineers to ship high quality products and features with end-to-end ownership from conception to delivery with minimal disruption to the business. You will be a critical part of our engineering chapter, responsible for ensuring quality engineering, reliability, scalability, performance, and robustness of our software products. You will play a critical role in designing and executing engineering standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving a DevSecOps culture towards build and run.

Key Accountabilities

System Design and Architecture

• Lead the design and development of scalable, reliable, and maintainable integration solutions using .NET technologies and event-driven architecture
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams (product mgmt., architects, business analysts) to design and engineer efficient systems that meet business requirements.

Integration Development

• Develop and implement complex .NET-based integration solutions, ensuring seamless data flow across various platforms, systems, and applications.
• Write automated, reusable, testable, and efficient code for integrating multiple services, databases, and third-party systems.
• Ensure integration solutions adhere to performance, security, and scalability towards Pandora engineering standards.
• Lead pair programming and code reviews to ensure the code quality and best practices are maintained throughout the development lifecycle
• Implement automated testing frameworks and perform unit, integration, and system testing of integration solutions.
• Maintain thorough technical documentation libraries, including system design, integration mappings, API specifications, and troubleshooting guides.
•  Lead the optimization of integration processes, making them faster, more secure, and easier to maintain.

Deployment and Operations support

• Oversee the deployment of integration solutions into production environments, ensuring smooth transitions with minimal disruption to business operations.
• Provide post-deployment support, join the on-duty engineering roster, monitoring, and troubleshooting to ensure the ongoing health and performance of integration solutions.

Security and Compliance

• Ensure that integration solutions comply with security standards, privacy regulations, and company policies.
• Implement secure coding practices, data encryption, and secure authentication mechanisms in integrations.

What is needed to succeed

• 5+ years of domain experience in supply chain, warehouse & logistics execution systems
• 5+ years leading scalable software architectures and engineering practices utilizing MACH principals, serverless technologies, container orchestration, API management and microservices framework.
•  5+ years in one or more of the following programming languages: C#, .NET, JSON
• Strong experience with Event Driven Architecture & cloud integration platforms such as Kafka/Solace which processes high volumes of data across the technology stack.
• Strong experience in working and integrating with MQTT, REST APIs, web services and other modernized integration patterns
• Building and orchestrating API standards, publish subscribe, machine to machine network protocols
• Strong software development practices like DevSecOps and CI/CD tool chains
• Supply chain technology experience, around Gartner Tier 1 WMS solutions, in particular Order fulfilment, functional WMS integration flows, configuration and setup is a strong benefit.
• Industry/sector exposure to Global 3PL network, transport and freight forwarders, Omni-Channel Retail, Luxury goods or FMCG industries
• Solid understanding and practical experience with Agile delivery and Lean methodologies

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We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.     

Icing on the cake     
Pandora is the world’s largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

Recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Best Workplaces and ranked #1 among Danish companies, Pandora is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe reflecting the diversity of society in how we engage with our customers is essential to fulfilling our purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We are dedicated to nurturing a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive.