Lead Integrations Architect, S/4HANA

Lead Integration Architect - Pandora Digital & Technology 

Do you want to be a part of the world’s leading jewellery company while putting your experience in data and technology 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 organization of can-do spirited, enthusiastic, and performance-driven people. We value flexibility and informal working, where you are trusted to deliver and to focus on outcomes and value.

About the Team:

Pandora has embarked on a multi-year transformational journey to implement SAP S/4HANA as our new ERP platform to drive our business transformation. It is time for us to revolutionize our digital backbone and transform how we deliver and support our business, enabling our customers to give a voice to their loved ones. We are on the start line of this exciting journey, and we want you to join us, and bring your extensive integration and SAP knowledge to the table. Expect a global journey ahead where you can deploy your integration best practice knowledge and seek new ways of doing things, crafting brilliant solutions that enable us to serve our customers and colleagues even better.

Joining Pandora, you will become part of a truly global business with over 28,000 colleagues working together. With a diverse range of backgrounds and qualifications, we come together to envision, invent, and craft the jewellery products that our customers know and love. Now, we are focused on what we can do next, spaces we can grow into and the new places it can take us and our business. Bring your talent, uniqueness, and qualifications into play, and join our transformative ERP journey.

Lead Integration Architect responsible for interfaces and connectivity in Global SAP S/4HANA ERP implementation, both within ERP environment and for ERP and non-ERP ecosystem

In this Digital & Technology role, you will play a key role through the entire design and global implementation of SAP S/4 HANA. You will be responsible for the E2E solution design for the SAP integrations globally, based on the already defined Pandora integration strategy. You will drive best practices and standardization. You will focus on providing technical expertise in the areas of architecture, technical delivery, design, and team leadership.

Key accountabilities include:

• Lead the solution architecture creation to provide state of the art integrations to Pandora ERP application landscape on-prem or in the cloud based on event-driven architecture, API, and partly micro-batch where applicable.
• Build an ERP integration strategy that is in line with the Pandora integration strategy and define transitional architecture and steps to have a resilient integration layer in a transitional landscape.
• Ensure efficiency, quality, and resiliency of the ERP and the integrations.
• Responsible for the Technical delivery of the new interfaces and ensure reusability, security, scalability, and quality of all interfaces.
• Work with Integration teams to ensure that the ERP integrations are coherent with the Pandora strategy.
• Work closely with Delivery teams and Business Analysts/functional consultants to translate complex business specs into technical specs.
• Review and approval of technical integration solutions and associated documentation
• Running workshops to facilitate the design and delivery of the above

What is needed to succeed?

• Expert knowledge of SAP based integration technologies.
• Expert on integration technologies and patterns within the realm of event-driven architecture using preferable Kafka, micro-service architecture (Kubernetes, Azure functions), API platforms (Azure APIM, Kong, Mulesoft) and micro-batch technologies as Azure Data factory.
• Extensive experience with multiple integration platforms and know that platforms are merely tooling – what matters are integration patterns, guidelines, approaches, and governance structures and sticking to the principles.
• Extensive Integration architecture experience with full life cycle implementation in SAP.
• Expert on SAP APIs, BAPI and iDocs and how to integrate with these components through our current middleware platforms.
• Demonstrated track-record in designing scalable transitional integration architecture integrating future state platforms with legacy platforms.
• Expert insight in designing re-usable schema models in publish/subscribe scenarios.
• Solid understanding of EDA and API integrations capabilities.
• Strong understanding of complex business problems to ensure projects are leveraging the appropriate technology and the technical design.
• Able to make sound and far-reaching decisions alone on key issues and to take full responsibility for them on a technical basis.
• Bring positive and initiative-taking mindset with an intrinsic motivation. Demonstrate a true team-player that strives for the accomplishment of common goals.
• Ability to conduct workshops and provide technical analysis and insight into integrating systems.
• Ability to work closely with Business Analysts/functional consultants to translate complex business specs into technical specs.
• Ability to lead a design/development team and provide guidance to team members.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skill.

Icing on the cake  

You will be working out of our beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V, established in 2016 and designed to unite and inspire our teams. Besides our beautiful interior design we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit. 

About Pandora

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand. The company designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,500 points of sale, including more than 2,500 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 32,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery at two LEED-certified facilities in Thailand. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and will purchase only recycled silver and gold for crafting its jewellery by 2025 and halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated sales of DKK 26.5 billion (EUR 3.6 billion) in 2022.

Pandora’s recruitment procedures are designed to be transparent and clear for all candidates. This helps us ensure that applicants are provided with a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and skills by removing blocking factors, possible biases, and risks of discrimination. We encourage everyone applying to our vacancies to refrain from adding identity-related elements such as a photo, marital status and age.