IT Section Leader

The Opportunity

We are seeking an IT Section Leader & Digital Platform Architect to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for designing, building, and scaling enterprise digital platforms that enable business process transformation, system integration, and AI-driven capabilities.

This role combines people leadership, enterprise architecture, and hands-on digital platform delivery, ensuring the development of modular, scalable, and data-driven solutions aligned with business needs and enterprise standards.

The candidate will act as a strategic and technical leader, driving the evolution toward platform-based architectures and enabling end-to-end digital solutions across business domains.

Your Main Responsibilities Will Be

• Digital Platform Strategy & Architecture
• Define and drive the enterprise digital platform strategy, enabling reusable, scalable, and composable solutions
• Architect modular, platform-based solutions aligned with business and IT strategy
• Establish standards for platform architecture, APIs, integration, and data flows
• Lead the design of cloud-native and API-driven platforms integrating SAP, custom applications, and data ecosystems
• Drive the transition from fragmented applications to unified platform ecosystems
• Business Process Transformation
• Lead the analysis and redesign of business processes to enable digital platform adoption
• Drive process standardization, automation, and optimization initiatives
• Ensure alignment with enterprise data models, compliance requirements, and operational goals
• Partner with business stakeholders to define and implement future-state digital processes
• AI-Enabled Platform Capabilities
• Define and integrate AI/ML/GenAI capabilities into digital platforms
• Identify opportunities to embed AI into workflows, decision-making, and automation
• Ensure scalable integration of AI services, data pipelines, and model lifecycle management
• Promote responsible AI practices and governance
• Business Analysis & Solution Design
• Lead requirements gathering and functional analysis activities with business stakeholders
• Translate business needs into platform capabilities, system architecture, and data models
• Drive solution design workshops and architecture reviews
• Ensure traceability from business requirements to delivered platform features and outcomes
• Software Development & Platform Delivery
• Oversee end-to-end platform delivery and software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Ensure development of clean, scalable, and maintainable code across platforms and services
• Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native engineering practices
• Lead teams working across .NET, Java, JavaScript, and low-code platforms
• Ensure robust data integration, APIs, and platform interoperability
• Team Leadership & Capability Building
• Lead and grow a cross-functional team (architects, business analysts, developers)
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and career development
• Build a high-performing, product- and platform-oriented engineering culture
• Collaborate across global teams and external partners

Education

To Join Our Team You Will Need

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Languages

• Fluent in English

Experience

• 10+ years of experience in IT, digital platforms, or software engineering
• Proven experience in Digital platform architecture and delivery, Enterprise system integration, Business process transformation, AI and data-driven solutions
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and complex global environments
• Strong experience with stakeholder engagement and leadership alignment

Skills & Qualifications

Platform & Architecture Skills

• Digital platform design and composable architectures
• Integration patterns (APIs, microservices, event-driven)
• Cloud-native architectures and scalable platform solutions
• Data platforms (e.g., Snowflake) and integration layers

Software Engineering & Delivery

• Strong understanding and background as a developer in at least one of these languages: .NET, Java, JavaScript, and/or web-based platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and modern engineering practices
• Scalable application development and platform performance optimization

AI & Data Capabilities

• Experience with AI/ML/GenAI integration into enterprise platforms
• Data-driven architectures and analytics solutions
• Understanding of AI governance, model lifecycle, and data quality principles

Business & Leadership Skills

• Strong business analysis and process modeling capabilities
• Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate business strategy into platform solutions
• Proven leadership in driving transformation initiatives

Personal Competencies

• Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work autonomously and lead complex initiatives
• Strong organizational and delivery management skills
• Collaborative mindset with focus on innovation and continuous improvement

Good to have

• SAP ecosystem and enterprise applications
• Modern architecture tooling and governance

Key Deliverables

• Digital platform architecture roadmap and governance framework
• Scalable, reusable enterprise digital platforms
• AI-enabled business capabilities embedded into platforms
• High-performing engineering and platform delivery team
• Measurable improvements in efficiency, automation, and data-driven decision making

Why Join Us

• Lead enterprise-wide digital platform transformation initiatives
• Enable next-generation AI-powered business capabilities
• Work on global, high-impact solutions across multiple domains

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 49 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.