Job Description
Paying out-of-pocket sucks. Manual data entry is painful. Workplaces need to be more trusting, and finance leaders need to be more tech-savvy.
We’re right at the tipping point of a fintech revolution - but we need your help to get there.
We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who will oversee the design, development, and implementation of all business applications supported by our IT team. This role will ensure that business applications are aligned with the organization's overall strategy, goals, and technology architecture. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including business leaders, IT teams, and vendors, to design scalable, secure, and integrated solutions that meet business needs and improve operational efficiency.
Who We Are
To get you off to a good start, let’s just say we’re saying goodbye to an outdated business process that’s been around forever – dreaded spend management.
We do this by helping customers delegate employee spending through a business spending platform. This means no more out-of-pocket spending, encouraging autonomy and trust in employees, and taking a huge burden off the finance team. You'll be building the SaaS tool (company spending solution) that comes with physical pre-paid cards (yes, with a fintech twist) distributed to all employees of the company. The best part? We're all users of Pleo ourselves, so it's a highly applicable tool. It impacts anyone in a company who spends money on behalf of the business – be it a coffee with clients or a Mac for a new hire.
Because we put the employee at the centre of all this, you'll find us to be user-obsessed (don’t take our word for it – check out our Trustpilot page: Trustpilot Pleo Reviews). We place ourselves in the user's position every day and try to minimise the major pains they feel.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Program Manager to lead and coordinate cross-functional projects across various geographies. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional organizational, leadership, and communication skills to work with teams distributed globally, ensuring alignment with project goals, timelines, and deliverables. This role is crucial to driving complex initiatives that involve multiple departments and locations, optimizing collaboration, and ensuring project success.
What the Role entails:
- Strategy & Planning:
- Develop and maintain the overall business application architecture in alignment with the organization's goals and IT strategy.
- Create roadmaps and strategic plans for the evolution of business applications.
- Lead assessments of current application landscapes and identify areas for improvement, consolidation, and modernization.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive technology adoption and innovation.
- Design & Implementation:
- Lead the design and integration of business applications, ensuring they meet security, scalability, and performance requirements.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical oversight on application development projects.
- Ensure applications are designed to be flexible, modular, and optimized for cloud-based and on-premise solutions.
- Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure alignment of solutions with infrastructure, data, and security strategies.
- Governance & Compliance:
- Establish and enforce application architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices.
- Ensure business applications comply with regulatory and security requirements.
- Maintain documentation of the architecture and technical specifications of all business applications.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve business application performance and user experience.
- Identify opportunities to optimize system performance, reduce costs, and improve the overall IT landscape.
- Lead post-implementation reviews and ensure continuous improvement processes are in place.
You will success in this role if you have:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
- Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in IT architecture, with at least 5 years focused on business applications.
- Proven experience leading the design and implementation of complex enterprise applications.
- Strong knowledge of IT Applications; ERP, HRIS, and other enterprise systems, including cloud-based platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce) and billing systems such as Zuora.
- Familiarity with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar.
- Experience with data integration, APIs, middleware, and microservices architecture.
- Strong understanding of security, compliance, and governance in business applications.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and drive consensus.
Show me the benefits!
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
- Lunch is on us
- Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
- In [location], we offer _ days of holiday + your public holidays
- For our IT team, you have flexibility/remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
- We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️🩹
- Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
- Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
- Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
- We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
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