O+O Engineering lead

Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech!

Who Are We?

For 115 years, L’Oréal, the world’s leading beauty player, has devoted itself to one thing only: fulfilling the beauty aspirations of consumers around the world.

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.

Today, L’Oréal includes more than 2,000 tech professionals and is constantly growing. Beauty Tech is changing the game and leading the shift towards new consumer realities and a digital disruption. Championing Beauty Tech, we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future.

Beauty Tech is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. Beauty Tech equips the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic. With this ambition, L’Oréal continues to recruit diverse, innovative, skilled and passionate minds in different tech domains such as Data, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure.

A Day in the Life of O+O Engineering lead!

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative Engineering Lead to join the L'Oréal Hyderabad Tech Hub. In this strategic role, you will act as the key technical bridge between our global O+O CTO organization in Paris and the delivery teams in Hyderabad, while animating the platform engineering teams across zones in ITH.

Your core mission will be to contribute to, roll out, and drive the adoption of existing or in-progress O+O standards, platforms, and AISDLC …

You will collaborate closely with global teams to ensure successful implementation, continuous improvement, and local alignment.

Beyond driving these rollouts, you will be a hands-on leader responsible for building, recruiting, and mentoring a high-performing team (DevOps, Developers, and Engineers) based in Hyderabad to execute this transformation at scale.

In this role, You will..

Be responsible for the following

As O+O ITH Engineering lead, you will lead the software execution layer of our Beauty Tech and Online & OmniSales ambition for the programs delivered in India Tech Hub. Your role will be to turn project visions into robust, secure, scalable applications & platforms that can be activated globally by our brands, markets, and partners. You will directly contribute to accelerating our insourcing strategy, strengthening our engineering excellence, and building sustainable systems capable of supporting omnichannel, personalized experiences with strong business impact.

You will lead the implementation of the platform engineering spirit, tooling and patterns into our ITH squads, in alignment with our Global CTO technological strategy.

In this position your main mission will be

Engineering mission and leadership

Contribute to the engineering vision in line with the Group’s business and technology strategy, and lead its implementation through a distributed, multicultural organization.

As well as to the continuous improvement, deployment, and local enforcement of standardized delivery processes, tools, and best practices across all O+O (Online + Offline) programs.

Platform Engineering

• Drive the adoption and scaling of the AI SDLC framework within ITH, integrating AI-driven tools and automation across software development phases in alignment with global guidelines.
• Support innovation by leveraging generative AI and machine learning capabilities provided by global platforms to accelerate delivery cycles and improve code quality.
• Deploy Group solutions for End-to-end observability & Smart Ops
• Drive the roll-out, adoption, and local improvements of existing global platforms (such as the IDP - Internal Developer Portal) for tracking and analyzing Value Creation.

Architecture and industrialization

Contribute to architecture choices and engineering standards to ensure performance, resilience, security, scalability, and maintainability in modern, distributed cloud environments.

Be the Gatekeeper for architectural decisions & tracking in partnership with the Global CTO team

End-to-end delivery

Oversee the full software development lifecycle, from design to production release, accelerating the transformation of ideas, AI use cases, and product innovations into solutions deployed at scale.

Monitor key engineering metrics, team velocity, and delivery efficiency using standard tooling, providing transparent insights to leadership in both Hyderabad and Paris.

Transformation through GenAI: Make GenAI a concrete lever for engineering productivity and quality by scaling development copilots, test automation, documentation assistance, assisted refactoring, and the continuous improvement of delivery practices.

Operational excellence: Strengthen DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices to ensure fast, safe, frequent deployments and a high level of availability for critical services.

Culture and talent: Build a demanding engineering culture based on clarity, ownership, simplicity, and impact, while attracting, developing, and retaining technical talent as part of an insourcing and team scale-up strategy.

Cross-functional partnership

• Act as a strategic partner to Product, Architecture, Data, Design, and application domain teams to turn business needs into clear, well-arbitrated technical decisions that create value for brands and markets.
• Ensure seamless collaboration and alignment between local delivery execution in Hyderabad and global architectural standards defined by the O+O CTO team in Paris.
• What are we looking for?
• Experience: 10+ years of overall experience in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in a technical leadership or delivery management role within a matrix organization.

Tech Skills

• Proficiency in GCP and Azure environments with ability to design & implement cloud native architectures
• Good knowledge of web development technologies & architectures (React, Vue, Node )
• DevSecOps : ability to design end-to-end CICD pipelines : tests, build, security audit (Checkmarx ), code quality audit (SonarQube ), Infra as Code ( Terraform )
• Vector, Hybrid and Graph RAG and their usual databases (Pinecone, Neo4j, TigerDB, GraphDB, PostgreSQL+pgvector). Re-ranking strategies, retrieval pipelines, Hybrid Symbolic & Neural systems
• Tool calling, agent orchestration ( LangGraph / Langchain / Langsmith, MCP / MCP-UI, DSPy, A2A, A2UI)
• Data Engineering (Delta Architectures, Lambda Architectures, Medaillon pattern, BigQuery, Databricks Lakehouse, Dagster / Airflow / Prefect)

MLOps (VertexAI, MLFlow)

• Leadership style
• Ability to navigate a matrix organization, influence and collaborate with peers (Marketing, Product, Design, Advanced Engineering)
• Calm, clear, and demanding - in the best sense
• Able to simplify without being simplistic
• Respected by senior engineers and product leaders
• Comfortable making and explaining hard trade-offs

Mindset

• You believe that simple systems are hard to build, but worth it
• You optimize for long-term leverage, not short-term heroics
• You care deeply about craft, but even more about impact
• Collaborative, structured, results-oriented, and adaptable.
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Excellent English communication skills; capable of navigating a matrix organization with dual reporting lines between local management (India) and global leadership (Paris).
• What’s In It for You?
• Working with cutting edge Technology, empowering employees with new age learning, global exposure, and opportunities to build future-ready careers.
• A flexible and modern workplace, enabling teams to perform at their best through a smart hybrid model that supports balance and autonomy. A 3 Day in Office, 2 Day Work from Home setup.
• Employee support at every life stage, with inclusive and progressive parental policies that help individuals and families thrive.
• Holistic wellbeing offerings - personalized health benefits and strong mental wellness support to ensure employees feel their best.
• Reward and Recognition opportunities, long-term incentives, and opportunities to share in L’Oréal’s collective success.
• L'Oreal is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment
• Good to know: The Recruitment Process
• Interview with HR

Technical Interview

Interview with the hiring manager

We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.