Chanel Integration & Architecture Director

Chanel is a privately held French luxury house celebrated for haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, fragrance and beauty. As an employer, Chanel places high value on creativity, artisan craftsmanship, technical excellence and discretion, offering an environment where design-driven product innovation intersects with rigorous operational standards.

1. Define and drive the global integration and enterprise architecture strategy, including API strategy, cloud architecture and integration patterns.
2. Design scalable, secure integration solutions and enforce architectural standards, governance and roadmaps across domains.
3. Lead, mentor and scale a multi-disciplinary architecture and integration team; recruit and represent the function to senior stakeholders.
4. Own vendor selection and management for integration platforms, middleware and API management; negotiate SLAs and commercial terms.
5. Collaborate with product, engineering, security and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
6. Oversee cloud migration and hybrid architectures, ensuring operational resilience, cost optimisation and compliance.
7. Establish observability, testing and CI/CD practices for integration flows and platform components.
8. Drive technical due diligence for acquisitions, partnerships and third-party integrations when required.

1. Proven leadership in enterprise architecture and integration at scale; demonstrable track record of delivering cross-domain technical programmes.
2. Strong executive stakeholder management and ability to translate business strategy into technical direction.
3. Experience with vendor evaluation and commercial governance for integration platforms and middleware.
4. Thought leadership in API-first design, microservices and cloud-native architectures.
5. TOGAF, ArchiMate or equivalent architecture qualification preferred.

1. Enterprise architecture
2. Solution architecture
3. API strategy and design (API-first, RESTful APIs)
4. Integration platforms: MuleSoft, Dell Boomi (experience with iPaaS)
5. Message brokers and streaming: Kafka, RabbitMQ
6. Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
7. Microservices architecture
8. Kubernetes, Docker
9. CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
10. Security, identity and access management for integrations

Typically 10+ years in IT with at least 5 years in senior roles leading enterprise architecture, integration or platform engineering teams; experience in retail, luxury goods or global consumer-facing organisations is highly desirable.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent; Master's degree or relevant professional certifications preferred.

Chanel fosters a high-expectation, craftsmanship-driven culture where creativity and technical excellence coexist. Teams operate with discretion, a premium on quality and close collaboration between business, design and technology functions.