Architect, Solution Architecture (Innovation & Product Development)

Imagine being part of the Digital & Technology team for the world's largest jewellery brand. If you are passionate about designing innovative enterprise solutions, enabling digital transformation, and bridging business and technology to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready capabilities, then you might be our next Architect, Solution Architecture (INPD) at Pandora.

We love that you will…

Solution Architecture & Design

• Define, own, and continuously evolve the INPD application landscape, ensuring alignment with business strategy, enterprise architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and future business capabilities.
• Design end-to-end solutions supporting Innovation, Product Development, HR, and SHE business capabilities.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, solution designs, integration specifications, and technical documentation.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements while adhering to enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and technology standards.
• Support architectural decision-making throughout project and product lifecycles.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and future-state architecture planning.
• Design end-to-end solutions across enterprise platforms, SaaS products, custom applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, and security. Evaluate and apply appropriate architecture patterns where justified by business and technical requirements.

Architecture Governance & Clean Core Standard

• Act as a guardian of architecture standards and principles, promoting the adoption of standard platform capabilities and minimizing unnecessary customization.
• Participate in architecture review boards, design authority forums, and cross-functional architecture communities to ensure alignment of solution decisions across programs and initiatives.
• Ensure solution decisions are traceable to business requirements, enterprise architecture principles, and strategic objectives.
• Maintain architecture decisions, design rationales, assumptions, constraints, and approved deviations throughout the solution lifecycle.

Business Partnership & Requirement Translation

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and business stakeholders to understand business needs and challenges.
• Translate business requirements into clear solution designs and implementation approaches.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by providing clear recommendations, transparent decision-making, realistic delivery considerations, and proactive risk communication.
• Enable digital capabilities that support product design, product development, sample development, and product lifecycle processes.
• Support continuous modernization and simplification of application landscapes.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry best practices to identify opportunities for innovation and business value realization.

AI & Digital Innovation

• Identify and drive opportunities to leverage Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Intelligent Automation within business products.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to adopt AI-assisted software engineering practices.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with responsible AI, security, and governance standards.

Delivery Support & Governance

• Participate in architecture reviews and design governance processes.
• Review solution implementations to ensure alignment with approved designs.
• Contribute to architecture standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.
• Identify and manage architecture risks and technical debt.

We love that you are…

• 5-8+ years of overall experience in Information Technology, with at least 3 years in a Solution Architect or similar architecture-focused role.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade, large-scale business applications, platforms, and digital products.
• Strong ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable, secure, and business-aligned solution architectures.
• Experience working across enterprise domains such as Product Development, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Human Resources (HR), Safety, Health & Environment (SHE), ERP, or similar business functions.
• Hands-on experience collaborating with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Engineering teams, and senior business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead solution design activities across the full software development lifecycle, from concept through implementation.
• Solid experience with Microsoft Azure or other leading cloud platforms.
• Good understanding of cybersecurity principles, identity and access management, data protection, security architecture, and DevSecOps practices.
• Knowledge of Generative AI, Intelligent Automation, or enterprise AI solutions is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving, and relationship-building capabilities.
• A proactive, self-driven mindset with a passion for delivering business value and driving continuous improvement.

About Pandora

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

About Pandora Production Thailand

Pandora started crafting its jewellery in Thailand in 1989, where our founders fell in love with the delicate craftsmanship of the Thai people. To date, there are two crafting facilities in Thailand, Bangkok, and Lamphun, and we employ more than 13,000 skilled craftspeople. By the end of 2024, there are 113 million pieces sold globally, all of which were hand-finished here in Thailand by our skilled craftspeople using high-quality raw materials and sustainable methods.