Sr Manager Tech Architect

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we have chosen to do something incredible. We are transforming our business to deliver a smoke-free future.

Technology plays a critical role in this transformation, enabling us to design and scale consumer and commercial platforms across markets. This creates significant opportunities to shape the future of our IT landscape at both regional and global levels.

Join us and take a leading role in defining how architecture enables business transformation, accelerates innovation, and delivers sustainable value across East and South East Asia, Pacific.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

As Sr. Manager Tech Architect, you will define, drive, and govern the end-to-end regional architecture strategy across our Consumer and Commercial domains, covering both B2C and B2B capabilities.

You will act as a regional architecture authority, connecting Global Domain Architecture, regional delivery teams, and market execution. You will ensure alignment with enterprise standards and global platforms while enabling scalable, compliant, and value-driven solutions across diverse markets.

You will also drive the convergence, simplification, and continuous evolution of the regional IT landscape. When required, you will confidently deep dive into solution architecture proposed by individual markets, providing direction and ensuring that critical technology decisions support our long-term strategic priorities.

Your Day To Day

• Define and drive the regional target architecture across Consumer and Commercial domains.
• Translate global architecture direction into clear regional roadmaps and execution plans.
• Align IT investments with business capabilities, strategic priorities, and long-term technology objectives.
• Balance global platform convergence with market-specific business requirements.
• Lead regional architecture governance and design authority forums.
• Review, approve, and oversee architecture designs for critical initiatives and platforms.
• Define and reinforce architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance practices across markets and delivery teams.
• Drive application rationalization and portfolio simplification across the region.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate, reuse, and scale platforms and technology capabilities.
• Embed architecture improvements and technical debt reduction into delivery roadmaps.
• Provide architecture oversight for consumer platforms, including e-commerce, digital engagement, omnichannel journeys, and customer care.
• Provide architecture oversight for commercial platforms, including retailer engagement, distribution systems, CRM, and trade solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to accelerate innovation and business value.
• Act as a trusted architecture partner to business and IT stakeholders across global, regional, and market organizations.

What We Are Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in architecture roles.
• Proven experience in regional or global architecture leadership.
• Experience working across multiple markets and navigating diverse business and technology environments.
• A strong background in digital consumer and commercial platforms.
• Deep knowledge of solution architecture, integration and APIs, data and information architecture, and security architecture.
• Experience with modern technology environments, including cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of event-driven and API-based architectures.
• Knowledge of digital experience, marketing, commerce, and omnichannel platforms.
• AI literacy and an understanding of agentic capabilities.
• Strong understanding of customer engagement and commercial operations.
• Demonstrated capability in portfolio strategy, roadmap definition, business capability alignment, IT governance, architecture design, and technology evaluation.
• The ability to connect strategic vision with practical execution and make data-driven decisions.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing, and communication skills across business and IT.
• The confidence to act as a senior architecture authority, bridge global strategy with regional execution, and build high-performing architecture capabilities.

What We Offer

Our success depends on our talented employees who work here every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment, and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business. Our staggering size and scale provide endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

To join our growing team

Philip Morris International: Delivering a Smoke-Free Future Philip Morris International (PMI) is leading a transformation in the tobacco industry to create a smoke-free future and ultimately replace cigarettes with smoke-free products to the benefit of adults who would otherwise continue to smoke, society, the company, and its shareholders. PMI is a leading international tobacco company engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, smoke-free products and associated electronic devices and accessories, and other nicotine-containing products in markets outside the U.S. PMI is building a future on a new category of smoke-free products that, while not risk-free, are a much better choice than continuing to smoke. Through multidisciplinary capabilities in product development, state-of-the-art facilities and scientific substantiation, PMI aims to ensure that its smoke-free products meet adult consumer preferences and rigorous regulatory requirements. PMI’s smoke-free IQOS product portfolio includes heat-not-burn and nicotine-containing vapor products. As of June 30, 2019, PMI estimates that approximately 8.0 million adult smokers around the world have already stopped smoking and switched to PMI’s heat-not-burn product, available for sale in 48 markets in key cities or nationwide under the IQOS brand. For more information, please visit www.pmi.com and www.pmiscience.com.

PMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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