Position Title:  IT Project Lead

Be a part of a revolutionary change - find your future in our future

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re transforming our business and building our future with one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. We're disrupting our company from the inside out. Our transformation is redefining every area of our business. From where and how we make and sell our products—to how we engage our consumers and society.

To support this vision, PMI is evolving into a science and technology-based, consumer-facing, multi-category company—and Information Technology (IT) is a vital partner in helping to lead the way. As we accelerate PMI's vision, we get to dream big too.

With unique and transformative IT projects matching all levels of skill and ambition, we've taken on the spirit of a start-up, with the freedom to craft and define our digital future, but with the support and scope of a vast global business.

Your day to day:

The IT Project Lead is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and evolution of API-based integration solutions that enable PMI’s digital consumer ecosystem.

This role acts as a key technical authority within the region, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing integrations across platforms, while driving engineering excellence and aligning solutions with the broader Digital Product vision.

The position plays a critical role in connecting market needs with central architecture and product teams, enabling the delivery of seamless, consumer-centric digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Strategy & Architecture

• Define and continuously evolve the API and integration strategy in alignment with regional and global architecture guidelines.
• Collaborate with Domain, Group, and Solution Architects to ensure consistency, scalability, and reusability of solutions.
• Ensure all integrations adhere to defined architectural standards, while constructively challenging designs to drive improvements.

Solution Design & Delivery

• Lead the design and implementation of API-based integrations (REST, GraphQL) for complex, consumer-facing platforms.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of integration solutions, ensuring alignment with business needs and product vision.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and optimized for performance and reliability.

Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Act as the technical reference point for integration-related topics within the region.
• Promote best practices in API development, lifecycle management, and security.
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of modern technologies (e.g., cloud, microservices).

Stakeholder Management & Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Managers, business stakeholders, and external vendors to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Build strong relationships across markets, regions, and central teams to ensure alignment and execution.

Team Enablement & Knowledge Sharing

• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to engineers (without direct people management accountability).
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Ensure proper documentation, knowledge sharing, and reuse of integration assets.

Performance & Operations

• Monitor and optimize API performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of integration issues, ensuring business continuity.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and API lifecycle management practices.

Key Capabilities & Experience

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• Solid experience in API-based integrations and enterprise-level system design.
• Proven experience leading technical initiatives in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Experience working in Agile environments (SCRUM, KANBAN, JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience in multinational environments is a plus.

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in API technologies (REST, GraphQL).
• Proficiency in Java (preferred) or Golang.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS).
• Knowledge of API security, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with tools such as Apollo GraphQL is a plus.

Leadership & Behavioural Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Clear and effective communication (technical and non-technical).
• Proven ability to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement.

What Success Looks Like 

• Able to work from the office in Sao Paulo 1-2 days a week.
• Integration solutions are scalable, stable, and aligned with architecture standards.

• Strong adoption of API best practices across teams.
• Positive feedback from stakeholders on solution quality and collaboration.
• Reduced integration issues and improved platform performance.
• Visible contribution to Digital Product success and consumer experience.

Ultimately, personality means more to us than skills. If you have the passion and mindset, we’d urge you to apply we will help you develop the skills.

Why should you join us?

At PMI IT, we believe success to be fuelled by our employees, depended on them coming to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for challenge. We are a people first organisation committed to empowering you to take risks, grow and explore. Here’s what sets us apart:

• We’re redefining the big picture of well-being and personal development. We seek the best professionals but recognize them as parents, caregivers, family, and community members. We look after each other and care for our people, so wherever you join us around the world, we’re committed to providing the type of benefits only a company like PMI can offer
• Being the fastest learning IT organization in the world is core to our culture, so we invest significantly in developing our people. From mentoring to technical certifications, stretch roles, soft skills development, and executive education, we help our people develop the skills they need to do their best work and create their own unique impact.
• At PMI IT, we believe diversity and inclusiveness are essential to every industry. We’re proud that our culture is built upon strong corporate values, a foundation of respect and belonging, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion that welcomes a variety of skill sets, backgrounds, and experiences.
• We see digital technology as disruptive, and possibilities as endless. Our teams work with innovative technologies such as Cloud, APIs, IoT and AI, supported by management practices and principles such as Agile, Design Thinking, and Product Management.
  
  

Every single IT member is part of our Transformation journey. Join us and pursue your ambitions – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. If our culture and mindset resonate with you, we look forward to receiving your application and getting to know you.

Together, let’s deliver a smoke free future.