Technical Lead – Digital

In a nutshell

The Technical Lead – Digital & E‑commerce at Toyota Motor Europe drives the technical delivery, quality, and reliability of digital sales platforms. Combining hands‑on expertise with leadership, the role ensures scalable, secure, and high‑performing solutions across e‑commerce and customer‑facing systems. It bridges architecture, development, and operations, guiding teams and vendors while tackling complex technical challenges and incidents. Focused on execution excellence, data quality, and integration, the Technical Lead enforces engineering standards, improves system stability, and ensures production‑ready solutions that support Toyota’s digital transformation and enhance the customer experience.

Company Information

TOYOTA is one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers and a leading global corporation. Founded in 1937. Toyota now sells vehicles in 170 countries and employs over 350.000 people. Based in Brussels, Belgium, and staffed by 2.700 people and more than 60 nationalities, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) handles the wholesale marketing of Toyota and Lexus vehicles, parts & accessories, and manages Toyota’s European R&D, manufacturing, and engineering operations.

We are excited to be transforming into a mobility company focusing on bringing even more happiness to our customers through various mobility solutions.

Your team and your responsibilities

Team/division description:

The role sits within the IT & Digital (IT&D) organisation, supporting Sales & Value Chain systems. The team plays a key role in shaping and governing the digital architecture that underpins Toyota’s European Sales & Value Chain transformation, operating across multiple markets and stakeholders.

Job purpose:

The Technical Lead Digital & E‑commerce is responsible for driving the technical execution, quality and operational reliability of digital and e‑commerce solutions supporting Sales & Value Chain business processes.

This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with strong delivery ownership. The Technical Lead is expected to raise engineering standards, drive execution, challenge weak solutions and ensure teams deliver robust, scalable and secure solutions with speed and quality.

The role acts as the technical authority during delivery, bridging architecture, engineering and operations teams to resolve complex technical challenges and ensure business‑critical platforms perform reliably in production.

Key responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Design

• Lead technical implementation with strong ownership of delivery quality, engineering standards and operational stability.
• Act as the technical decision maker for assigned initiatives, providing clear direction and pragmatic trade‑off decisions.
• Drive engineering discipline, code quality, maintainability and technical consistency across teams and suppliers.
• Challenge ineffective technical approaches and push for scalable, supportable and efficient solutions.
• Take a hands‑on role when required to resolve critical technical blockers or production issues.

Digital & E-commerce Delivery

• Ensure high‑quality implementation of customer‑facing digital platforms, sales portals and e‑commerce solutions.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, scalability, availability and reliability requirements.
• Drive predictable and high‑quality delivery by proactively identifying risks, removing blockers and maintaining execution focus.
• Balance speed, quality and technical sustainability without overengineering.
• Ensure teams deliver solutions that are production‑ready, observable and operationally supportable.

Integration & Data Quality

• Oversee technical implementation of system integrations between e‑commerce platforms, backend systems and data layers.
• Ensure correct handling of data flows, data consistency and data quality across digital and sales systems.
• Support troubleshooting of complex integration and data issues.
• Define, monitor and report on quality KPIs for the product or platform (e.g. stability, defects, technical debt, delivery predictability).

Collaboration & Execution

• Work closely with Solution Architects to ensure architectural intent is respected during delivery.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, business stakeholders and delivery teams to clarify technical requirements.
• Coordinate and technically guide external vendors and development partners.

Quality, Security & Operations

• Ensure adherence to development standards, security guidelines and best practices.
• Support deployment, stabilisation and handover to operations teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and