Shape the Future of Product Lifecycle Management at H&M
At H&M Tech, we are transforming how product data flows across our global technology landscape. We are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of the integration layer supporting our next-generation Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM.
This is a business-critical role within Product Lifecycle Foundation, responsible for enabling reliable product data flow between PLM and the broader H&M ecosystem, including product development, sourcing, supply chain, master data, analytics, and downstream business applications. The role is important for maintaining continuity in our PLM modernization journey and ensuring successful delivery of key transformation initiatives.
What You Will Do
The ideal candidate combines hands-on software engineering expertise with technical leadership, integration architecture, and a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Technical Leadership
- Lead a team of software engineers working on the PLM integration platform.
- Provide technical direction and architectural guidance for PLM integration delivery.
- Drive engineering standards, code quality, design reviews, and clear technical decision-making.
- Own technical delivery from design through production deployment and operational excellence.
- Coach and mentor engineers to foster a high-performing engineering culture.
Integration Platform Engineering
- Design and build scalable integration services connecting Centric PLM with internal and external systems.
- Develop APIs, event-driven services, messaging solutions, and data transformation capabilities.
- Apply proven integration and distributed-system patterns to create scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions.
- Ensure the platform is reliable, observable, secure, performant, and ready for production operations.
Integration Platform & Architecture
- Define target architecture for PLM integrations and data exchange.
- Lead the design of high-throughput distributed systems handling complex business workflows.
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, product teams, and platform teams across H&M.
- Establish non-functional requirements including scalability, availability, security, and operational readiness.
Operational Excellence
- Build end-to-end observability including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Drive incident reduction, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Champion automation, CI/CD, testing strategies, and release management practices.
- Support production services and ensure robust operational processes.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
The Product domain provides capabilities to design, create, source, and produce customer‑relevant assortments. It covers the full product lifecycle from product design, sourcing, purchasing, to production execution, and is organized into four focus areas that each own a distinct part of this lifecycle.
Product Lifecycle Foundation provides the foundational systems and tools to manage product data, processes, and lifecycle information. It enables product development, supplier collaboration and accurate product data. It enables supplier collaboration, product data accuracy, and supports efficient product development.
PLM Hub acts as an integration layer connecting the PLM platform (Centric) with upstream and downstream applications, supporting end-to-end processes in planning, development, sourcing, and production.
WHO YOU ARE
- 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience in designing and delivering complex, enterprise-scale backend and integration solutions.
- Proven technical leadership with the ability to mentor engineers, lead delivery teams, drive architectural decisions, and foster engineering excellence.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native application development, microservices, and service-oriented architectures, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and reliability.
- Solid experience building and integrating enterprise platforms using REST APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and API governance.
- Experience with one or more messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Solace PubSub+, Google Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or equivalent.
- 10+ years of experience in backend development using Python and frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or similar, including asynchronous programming techniques.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (preferred), Azure, or AWS, along with Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong understanding of observability, production operations, and reliability engineering, including automated testing, monitoring, alerting, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, and SRE principles.
- Experience working with PostgreSQL or other distributed databases, data modelling, and enterprise data integration and transformation.
- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with experience partnering across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Platform, Business, and external vendor teams in a global environment.
- Experience within retail, fashion technology, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Centric PLM, product creation, supply chain, or product master data integrations is highly desirable but not mandatory.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical innovation with operational excellence while creating a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and high engineering standards.
WHO WE ARE
H&M is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.
We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Help us re-imagine fashion and together we will re-shape our industry. Learn more about H&M here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE
At H&M, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.
We offer all our employees at H&M attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment types and countries.
JOIN US
Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.
Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.
*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.
Skills Required
- 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience designing and delivering complex, enterprise-scale backend and integration solutions.
- Proven technical leadership ability to mentor engineers, lead delivery teams, and drive architectural decisions.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native application development, microservices, and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience building and integrating enterprise platforms using REST APIs, event-driven architectures, messaging technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and API governance.
- Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Solace PubSub+, Google Pub/Sub, or RabbitMQ.
- 10+ years backend development using Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask, including asynchronous programming techniques.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) or Azure/AWS, plus Kubernetes, Docker, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, distributed tracing, OpenTelemetry, automated testing, and SRE principles.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other distributed databases, data modelling, and enterprise data integration and transformation.
- Experience within retail, fashion technology, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), or Centric PLM integrations.
H&M Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about H&M Group and has not been reviewed or approved by H&M Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, pharmacy and vision options with low employee costs and free dental are available, alongside telehealth and inclusive offerings such as transgender, bariatric and fertility coverage. These features are highlighted as solid for U.S. retail roles, with some availability for part‑time positions depending on eligibility.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Vacation, flexible wellness days, company‑paid holidays and a paid birthday off are offered, with some paid time off available to part‑time staff. The time‑off structure is presented as generous within the retail context.
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Parental & Family Support — Eight weeks of paid parental pay for mothers and fathers is provided, complemented by adoption assistance and healthy pregnancy/babies programs. These family supports add depth to the core medical coverage in the U.S. package.
H&M Group Insights
What We Do
Founded in 1947, H&M Group is a global design company with ~4,702 stores in 76 markets and 56 online markets. At H&M Group, we believe in making great design available to everyone. It’s essential in everything we do. Our family of brands and business ventures offer customers around the world a wealth of fashion, beauty, accessories and homeware, as well as modern menus with fresh and local produce at some of the brands’ in-store eateries. But design is so much more than just products; it’s about clever design processes, efficient product flows, creating experiences that enrich, and smart solutions that benefit all our customers. Sustainability is always at the core of our business. Not only because we like to do what’s right — but it’s also beneficial for our business. We will continue to push for change and lead the way towards a more inclusive and sustainable fashion future. Do you want to join us? We will trust you with great responsibility right from the start, reward a passionate mindset and encourage an entrepreneurial spirit. When you start a career with H&M Group, there’s no limit to where it can take you. H&M Group's Moderation Policy: Welcome to H&M Group’s official LinkedIn page. Ask questions, exchange ideas and meet members and employees from all over the world. This page is moderated daily and we always do our best to answer each one of you in a timely manner. Please remember to keep a friendly tone and in line with LinkedIn’s legal terms at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement Comments and posts that contain foul language, are off-topic or unnecessarily rude will be deleted. We also encourage you to report any inappropriate content. We use an external tool to handle the comments on our page, so please note that your comments can be stored. For questions, please contact our team at [email protected].
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