GLOBAL EDA PRODUCT OWNER
Job Description
Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech! For more than a century, L'Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: Beauty. Present in 150 countries across five continents and with €42 billion consolidated sales, L'Oréal is the global industry leader. With 37 global beauty brands across four divisions, L'Oréal offers beauty for each covering all beauty categories and catering to all beauty desires. With the acquisition of the Australian brand Aēsop in 2023, the Group continues to expand its portfolio through targeted acquisitions as part of its drive to create the future of beauty.
Your Future Team
OPR is the world's leading Beauty Tech powerhouse. Our IT2030 transformation agenda is designed to accelerate this leadership, building the next generation of Technology that will power the future of Beauty. Within This Global Transformation, The Enterprise Architecture & Integration (EA & Integration) Entity Serves As The Tech Spine Of OPR. Our Purpose Is Defined By a Clear North Star.
- Vision: Sovereign by ambition. Scalable by design. Driven by a tech-native mindset. We power the next frontier of Beauty Tech with purpose, resilience, and impact.
- Mission: As the Tech Spine of OPR, we orchestrate the strategic foundations of Beauty Tech and make technology the engine of lasting transformation, paving the way for Beauty Tech's next era.
To Deliver On This Mission, OPR Beauty Tech And More Specifically The Enterprise Architecture & Integration Function Operates a Federated Operating Model.
- Global teams define integration standards, platforms and reusable capabilities.
- Zones co-own delivery and business outcomes.
At the heart of this model, the Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) and associated integration services including Event-Driven architecture are mission‑critical assets, supporting high-volume, business-critical flows across the Group combining APIs, messaging, eventing and batch integrations into a coherent scalable integration landscape.
About the Global EDA Product Owner
The Global EDA Product Owner is responsible for the success of EDA, APIGE Products that enable simple, secure and scalable data exchange across the Group. These products include business APIs, event streams, integration services, templates, connectors and self‑service assets used by multiple internal teams. The position is evolving and expected to grow in scope and seniority from activating the first wave of use cases to owning the full EDA product vision and shaping the next generation of real‑time, event‑driven capabilities at enterprise scale.
Reporting Line: Global Architecture Solution & Engineering Lead.
Key Interfaces
- Global Integration Engineering Manager
- Global Project teams
- Global and Zone Integration teams
- Enterprise and Solution Architects
- Strategic integration technology partners (Confluent)
What You Will Need To Succeed
We love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact, proactive and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit. In this specific position, it will be important to maximize the value, adoption and reuse of EDA products, and to drive the organization toward a scalable, event‑driven integration model.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and prioritize EDA use cases.
- Market and evangelize EDA capabilities.
- Enable use case delivery and provide guidance.
- Accelerate EDA adoption and transform successful use cases into reusable products.
- Position EDA within the broader integration landscape.
- Own the EDA product backlog and deliver MVPs.
- Productize and industrialize EDA assets.
- Coordinate with platform, security, and data governance teams.
- Monitor EDA product KPIs and drive continuous improvement.
- Contribute to documentation, release notes, demos, and training.
Role Overview
Accountable for the long-term sustainability, adoption and business impact of L'Oréal's EDA products.
- Own global success of assigned EDA Products.
- Define vision, scope, and backlog.
- Identify, qualify and activate EDA use cases across the Group.
- Build and execute go‑to‑market strategy.
- Enable and accelerate teams to deliver event-driven use cases.
- Ensure compliance with architecture, security, and data governance standards.
- Promote reuse and standardization of event-driven solutions.
- Advise on integration approach selection.
- Collaborate with the EDA Platform Owner for roadmap alignment.
- Ensure compliance with architecture, security, data governance and schema management standards.
- Foster effective collaboration across teams.
- Drive EDA adoption and activation with the Practice Lead.
- Align with EA & Integration strategy.
Key Requirements
- 8-12 years of experience in integration and/or Product Management or similar role.
- Strong background in integration at large: Event Streaming, APIs, iPaaS, messaging, and batch flows.
- Proven ability to drive technology adoption and build go-to-market strategies for internal platforms.
- Experience working in global, distributed environments.
Technical Expertise & Hard Skills
- Solid understanding of integration concepts: APIs (REST/GraphQL), iPaaS, batch/ETL, messaging.
- Deep knowledge of EDA concepts: Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, schemas, connectors, stream processing.
- Experience with iPaaS solutions such as Workato.
- Ability to read and challenge high-level technical designs.
- Practical experience with agile tools and documentation.
Soft Skills & Mindset
- Strong product mindset.
- Evangelist profile: market complex technical capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management.
- Team player, collaborative.
- Analytical and structured.
Success Metrics
- Progressive simplification of the integration landscape through EDA-driven decoupling.
- Number of EDA use cases identified, qualified and activated.
- Increase in adoption metrics.
- Growth of the reusable EDA product catalog.
- Positive feedback from internal customers.
- Alignment of EDA platform evolution with IT2030 objectives.
Additional Information
- Contract Type: Full-Time
- Location: Saint-Ouen (Possible partial remote)