eRetail Engineering Manager / AI-Driven Delivery
Paris Hybrid
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About the role
At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries. This is not primarily a governance or transformation-program role . It is an engineering leadership role with direct delivery accountability , where AI adoption is a strategic priority embedded in how the factory operates , not a parallel initiative . Reporting to the Valtech Client Partner and Valtech Directors for this client, you o wn and lead engineering delivery within the client eRetail factory — bu ild quality , delivery predictability , and production reliability — while driving the adoption of AI-native tooling and practices to accelerate engineering throughput and quality . Act as the direct engineering leader for the factory , with hierarchical and operational accountability for the engineering teams (France/ India ), and as the AI adoption lead within engineering, in coordination with the AI Transformation Program Manager on cross- domain initiatives.
What you'll bring
- Proven track record leading engineering organizations at scale (20+ engineers ), with direct delivery accountability.
- Demonstrated experience driving AI- assisted development or AI-native engineering practices into standard use, not just pilots.
- Experience managing distributed engineering teams (France/ India or equivalent onshore/offshore model).
- Strong understanding of e-commerce, retail, or omnichannel platform architectures.
- Hands-on technical credibility — able to make and defend architecture and technical trade -off decisions.
- Fully bilingual French/English is mandatory.
- Engineering leader who is both hands-on and strategic — comfortable owning technical decisions and reporting to executive stakeholders.
- Clear, structured communicator able to simplify technical complexity for non- technical audiences.
- Pragmatic, delivery-focused, with a bias for measurable outcomes over experimentation for its own sake.
- Strong people leadership — proven ability to grow and retain engineering talent.
- Comfortable operating in a demanding, peak-driven retail delivery environment.
- If you do not meet all the listed qualifications or have gaps in your experience, we still encourage you to apply.