Richemont Tech Team Lead

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Location
MoscavideLisbonPortugal
Seniority
Lead
Posted
Mar 16, 2026

About Richemont

Richemont is a global luxury goods group comprising a portfolio of distinguished maisons across jewellery, watches, leather goods and writing instruments. As an employer, it combines heritage craftsmanship with modern retail and digital capabilities, operating internationally and investing in technology to support product excellence, client experience and operational resilience.

Richemont seeks a Tech Team Lead in Moscavide, Portugal to lead engineering teams delivering cloud‑native platforms for its maisons.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team to deliver cloud-native, production-grade services and platform capabilities.
  • Define technical direction and architecture decisions while ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security and scalability requirements.
  • Own delivery of sprint goals and roadmaps; collaborate with Product, Design and Ops to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
  • Conduct code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, and drive continuous improvement in CI/CD, testing, observability and incident response.
  • Manage third‑party vendors and contractors as required; recruit, retain and develop technical talent within the team.
  • Represent the engineering team in stakeholder forums, present technical trade-offs, and drive cross‑team integration for critical initiatives.

Qualifications

  • Proven leadership experience with a record of building and scaling engineering teams.
  • Strong command of software architecture principles for distributed systems and microservices.
  • Solid understanding of cloud platforms, containerisation and platform engineering practices.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to translate technical constraints to business audiences.
  • Demonstrable focus on software quality, security, observability and operational excellence.

Skills

Java Spring Boot Microservices REST APIs AWS Kubernetes Docker Terraform CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab CI) Git SQL NoSQL Prometheus Grafana Agile / Scrum JIRA

Experience

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a minimum of 2 years in a people‑lead or technical lead role, preferably within enterprise or multi‑brand retail/commerce environments. Experience delivering cloud‑native platforms and operating production services at scale is expected.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline; advanced degree or relevant professional certifications (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, Scrum Master) preferred.

Workplace

The successful candidate will be located in Moscavide, Lisbon, Portugal, with easy access to Lisbon.

Culture

Richemont blends the values of traditional craftsmanship with an entrepreneurial drive for digital transformation. The workplace emphasizes collaboration across international teams, high standards of quality and opportunities to contribute to technology that underpins iconic luxury maisons.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.

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