Technical Director, Capability Design Architect, Finance E2E

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description

The Technical Director Capability Design Architect is the premier technical authority and Master Practitioner within the Individual Contributor (IC) track at ELC. Possessing zero direct administrative reports, this executive-level IC exercises multiple business capability domain and multiple sub-domains with the authority to define, govern, and pioneer the technical blueprints and composable architecture standards across ELC’s most critical, complex, and high-risk global capabilities.

Reporting directly to executive TDA leadership, the Technical Director CDA solves complex technical problems that span multiple corporate domains, global brand platforms, and modern cloud infrastructure. This leader is the chief champion of ELC’s Fit to Standard architectural principles, creating foundational design patterns that enable side-by-side cloud extensibility (SAP BTP, AWS microservices) and prevent legacy debt across multi-billion-dollar transaction systems. The Technical Director CDA operates as an enterprise tech innovator driving GenAI-integrated architectural automation, evaluating cutting-edge software paradigms, and authoring ELC’s global engineering standards. Acting as the lead technical expert in peer design, strategy and architecture reviews, this role pressure-tests complex enterprise solutions, advises C-suite executives on critical technology choices, and elevates the technical maturity of the entire engineering community.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Enterprise Capability Strategy & Blueprinting (40%)

• Author and govern the multi-year master technical blueprints for ELC’s most critical flagship platforms (e.g., Global SAP S/4HANA, global supply chain networks, enterprise omnichannel integration engines). Define long-term technology roadmaps that span multiple business capability L2 domain areas and the respective sub-domains to ensure high availability, security, and global scalability.
• Solve deep technical friction and integration bottlenecks that span multiple business capability L2 domain boundaries. Ensure end-to-end technical cohesion across disparate regional, brand, and functional software ecosystems.
• Conduct high-level architectural cost-benefit analyses and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling for enterprise technology investments. Identify structural technical debt across global platforms and design systematic architectural retirement strategies.
• Map complex, multi-domain value streams using VSM and APQC frameworks, engineering high-speed data pipelines, event broker patterns, and lightweight APIs that streamline business execution across global markets.

Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)

Composable Platform Architecture & Technical Authority (30%)

• Serve as the ultimate enterprise arbiter for Fit to Standard principles across their multiple business capability L2 domains. Establish and enforce rigid architectural standards that prohibit custom modifications within core their relevant technology landscape, mandating side-by-side cloud extensibility.
• Adhere to and enforce enterprise-wide API governance frameworks, microservice architecture standards, and integration patterns. Design composable abstraction layers that enable rapid platform replacements and seamless vendor integration.
• Possess deep, code-level and configuration-level understanding of core transactional engines, cloud integration platforms (SAP BTP, MuleSoft, AWS), and enterprise databases, serving as the top technical escalation point for complex architectural defects.
• Lead capability domain area innovation into disruptive technologies, composable software paradigms, and vendor platforms. Author white papers and proof-of-concepts to guide ELC’s long-term digital evolution.
• Establish enterprise standards fo…