Rolex Enterprise Architect

About Rolex

Rolex is a preeminent Swiss haute-horlogerie house renowned for technical excellence, precision manufacturing and enduring luxury. As an employer, Rolex combines artisanal watchmaking craftsmanship with rigorous operational disciplines and a discreet, performance-oriented corporate culture; corporate and IT functions support global sales, manufacturing and after-sales services within the Geneva-based maison and its international network.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise architecture vision, principles and long-term roadmap to align business strategy with IT capabilities across applications, data, integration, infrastructure and security domains.
• Design target-state reference architectures and solution blueprints that enable scalable, resilient and secure platforms for manufacturing, supply chain, retail and customer service.
• Establish and govern architecture standards, patterns, reusable components and compliance checkpoints; chair architecture review boards and approve major solution designs.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners and senior IT leaders to translate business requirements into coherent multi-year transformation programmes.
• Provide technical leadership to solution architects and engineering teams during delivery, ensuring conformance to the target architecture and promoting best practices (APIs, microservices, cloud-native patterns).
• Assess emerging technologies and vendors, produce business-impact analyses, and recommend pragmatic adoption approaches for cloud, data, integration and security technologies.
• Define migration strategies from legacy systems (including ERP/CRM landscapes) to modern platforms, and produce phased implementation roadmaps with clear milestones and risk mitigation.
• Mentor architecture and development teams, promote an architecture-first mindset and contribute to capability-building across the IT organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an enterprise architect or senior solution architect within complex, multi-domain IT environments (manufacturing, retail or luxury goods preferred).
• Strong knowledge of architecture frameworks and methods such as TOGAF and ArchiMate; formal certification preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and/or GCP), API management (e.g. MuleSoft, Apigee) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience with enterprise ERP/CRM ecosystems (SAP S/4HANA or equivalent) and with integrating transactional manufacturing and retail systems.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and governance skills, able to influence senior executives and reconcile business priorities with technical constraints.
• Excellent analytical, communication and leadership capabilities; able to translate complex technical concepts into business-impacting recommendations.

Skills

Experience

Typically 10+ years in IT with at least 5 years in architecture roles responsible for cross-domain enterprise design, governance and technology strategy in complex organisations.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).

Workplace

Culture

Rolex blends meticulous Swiss craftsmanship with disciplined operational processes; the corporate culture favours long-term thinking, technical excellence and discretion. Employees operate within a structured environment that prizes precision, collaboration across functions and a commitment to sustaining the maison’s reputation for quality.

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