For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.  

At L'Oréal, our IT teams design and build solutions to ensure high performance for all our business sectors by imagining new ways of doing things, from designing websites to building algorithms and predicting new trends. They can be found leading teams towards a more connected and digitalized future in IT retail, e-commerce, CRM, data, AI, cybersecurity, Cloud and E-Marketing. You never stop learning at L'Oréal IT because things change at the speed of light! Come join our dynamic team! 

What you will do: 

• Design and build activities including post-launch monitoring, from software maintenance to upgrading and improvement of retail applications including point of sale applications (CEGID and GK).
• Write and update source-code behind integrations to support real time (and file based) data exports and imports 
• Contribute to tech analysis, design, and implementation strategies for retail applications
• Contribute to detailed architectural roadmaps and documentation 
• Collaborate with the Integration team to design and validate API-based integration approaches, and to ensure data consistency and accuracy in new workstreams
• Contribute to product deliverables through development lifecycle from estimation to delivery and hypercare liaising with offshore development teams and ensuring consistent progress and quality

• Exhibit flexibility and creativity in problem-solving, with a strong willingness to learn and adapt.
• Analyze and improve retail application functionality, data integrity, and system efficiency.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, translating technical details into business-relevant language
• Follow Project or Product Management methodology participating in tasks and activities within the team displaying flexibility with either Agile, Waterfall methodologies or a hybrid
• Collaborate with other zone and global L’Oreal teams on change management, vendor management and ensure timely delivery of various tasks, projects as well as Level 3 Support requests and incidents
• Actively participate in business and technology planning sessions to identify future needs adhering to a technology strategy and delivery roadmaps, including Innovation
• Handle multiple issues/tasks/projects of varying size simultaneously and effectively communicate status to stakeholders
• Adhere to company’s internal policies and initiatives including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Sustainability

What we are looking for:  

Technical Proficiency:   

• Proficiency in Systems’ Architecture and IT Project Lifecycle
• Working knowledge in CEGID and GK Omni Point-Of Sales Platforms; other Point of Sale and retail applications/solutions experience a plus
• Experience with SQL Server Development (PostgreSQL), including Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions, Assemblies
• Experience with deploying integrations with ERP systems (SAP ECC, S4, P360) 
• Experience with Design and Development of Web APIs (Rest and SOAP) employing OAuth2.0 authentication methods whenever possible.
• Experience with Batch, PowerShell, VB Scripting as well as Java Script and Python

• Working experience with Business Intelligence applications, SQL based SSRS, SSIS or other ETL tools
• Working Knowledge of VB.Net / C#.NET, Java Script, HTML
• Working Knowledge in DevOps tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps)
• Proficiency in creating technical documentation and building flow charts  
• Retail background or experience working in the Retail environment

Key Professional Skills:   

• Strong organizational, analytical, process oriented and creative problem-solving skills
• Experience troubleshooting, collaborating and sharing knowledge with colleagues and peers 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Ability to communicate with internal and external IT and the business partners
• Ability to work in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment demonstrating a high level of time management and organizational skills
• Flexibility and willingness in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!