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Join Schwarz Global Services Barcelona - IT Hub of Europe's Largest Retail Group.
At Schwarz Global Services Barcelona, we provide high value IT services for the entire Schwarz Group, which includes Lidl, Kaufland, Schwarz Produktion, PreZero, Schwarz Digits, STACKIT, and XMCyber.
As part of a top 5 global retail company, we serve 6 billion customers through 13,700 stores in 32 countries, supported by over 575,000 employees.
We are looking for open-minded colleagues with passion for technology, who are willing to find diverse and exciting career opportunities in a dynamic work environment that stands for development and progress.
Elevate your career with us, where development and progress are at the heart of everything we do.
At Schwarz Global Services Barcelona, we provide high value IT services for the entire Schwarz Group, which includes Lidl, Kaufland, Schwarz Produktion, PreZero, Schwarz Digits, STACKIT, and XMCyber.
As part of a top 5 global retail company, we serve 6 billion customers through 13,700 stores in 32 countries, supported by over 575,000 employees.
We are looking for open-minded colleagues with passion for technology, who are willing to find diverse and exciting career opportunities in a dynamic work environment that stands for development and progress.
Elevate your career with us, where development and progress are at the heart of everything we do.
Your Tasks
- At SCRM – Schwarz IT Barcelona we are seeking a technically strong and hands-on Domain Technical Lead (DTL) to lead the Marketing & Communications domain, combining deep technical expertise with the ability to guide a team of Squad Technical Leads.
- As a Domain Technical Lead (DTL), you will shape the future of MarTech solutions at scale, driving strategic engineering decisions that impact millions of users across Europe.
- In this role, you will foster collaboration, champion a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure technical and engineering execution is aligned with company, domain and business objectives - delivering high-impact, user-centered products.
- Lead a team of STL’s, providing guidance, mentorship and technical direction.
- Assist STL’s in hiring, mentoring and retaining top engineering talent.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and adoption of new technologies.
- Act as a bridge between the engineering team and company leadership.
- Define and implement a long-term technology vision aligned with business objectives.
- Contribute to cross-company architecture and engineering practices, ensuring technical coherence across teams.
- Oversee domain-wide architecture to ensure scalability, security and high performance.
- Supervise products architecture to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing system architectures that support business growth and ensure long-term sustainability.
- Continuously optimize performance and reliability through architectural follow ups and enhancements.
- Optimize system performance and reliability through architectural improvements.
- Balance team interests and needs with business priorities when making technical decisions.
- Identify risks early and lead the implementation of mitigation and contingency plans.
- Support and mentor STLs in applying Agile methodologies and DevOps principles to enhance development cycles, collaboration and CI/CD pipelines.
- Oversee the planning, execution and delivery of initiatives, ensuring alignment with company quality standards, best practices, budgets and timelines.
- Work closely with SCRM top management to align engineering initiatives with company objectives, fostering open communication and collaboration.
- Ensure engineering initiatives are feasible and scalable, participating actively in solution design and prioritization with Product Owners.
- Build strong relationships with heads of engineering across domains to share knowledge, align best practices and drive strategic initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with all agreed-upon product security measures in coordination with the security team.
- Mentor STLs in building robust monitoring solutions, incident response and performance optimization strategies for high system availability.
- Define strategies with STLs to scale applications, infrastructure and databases for business growth while ensuring seamless user experience.
- Design engineering strategies that support legal regulations and create scalable solutions for diverse user bases worldwide.
- Provide technical expertise to ensure smooth integrations and risk mitigation in technology assessments and integrations.
- Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate team performance, improve engineering efficiency, and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Represent the company at industry conferences, tech forums and panel discussions to showcase expertise, attract top talent and establish the company as a thought leader.
- Encourage engineers to contribute to open-source projects, enhancing the company’s reputation in the tech community and fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Prioritize building user-friendly, high-performance products by gathering feedback from customers, iterating on solutions, and ensuring that engineering efforts align with customer needs and expectations.
Your Profile
- At least 3 years of experience leading and mentoring multiple technical teams, while remaining actively involved in architectural and engineering decisions.
- Deep engineering and technical expertise, with hands-on experience in architecture, development and scalable systems.
- Skilled in .NET backend development and architecture for large-scale, high-demand environments.
- Experience operating in cloud environments, ideally Azure and/or GCP.
- Strong background in software engineering, DevOps and system architecture at scale, serving millions of daily users.
- Strong understanding of engineering processes, software development processes, methodologies and best practices.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience with goal-setting, performance evaluations and professional development.
- Ability to manage risks and make data-driven decisions to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to align engineering execution with business objectives.
- Would be a plus knowledge of MarTech or experience in marketing and communication platforms.
- Would be a plus track record of hiring, mentoring and growing high-performing teams.
- Would be a plus Experience in Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- Would be a plus Experience with DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines.
- Would be a plus Knowledge of containerization and Kubernetes.
- Would be a plus Experience in Android.
- Would be a plus Experience in iOS.
- Would be a plus Experience in React and or React Native.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Schwarz Dienstleistung KG · Xavier Coll Porqueres · Reference no. 45696
Stiftsbergstraße 1 · 74172 Neckarsulm, Germany
www.careers.schwarz
Domain Technical Lead (m/f/d)