Engineering Manager [Marketing Automation]

Engineering Manager [Marketing Automation]

Digital & Technology Team (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. We are committed to making Heineken the most connected brewery. That includes digitalizing and integrating our processes, ensuring best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture. By joining us you will work in one of the most dynamic and innovative teams and have a direct impact on building the future of Heineken!

Would you like to meet the Team, see our office and much more? Visit our website: Heineken (heineken-dt.pl)

At HEINEKEN, we are on a journey to become the best‑connected brewer in the world, with Digital Commerce playing a central role in this ambition. Digital Commerce is responsible for designing, developing and scaling the IT solutions that serve our customers better, faster and smarter across the entire Route‑to‑Consumer ecosystem. After successfully building our software engineering organisation, we are now entering the next stage of our evolution by accelerating the growth of Digital Commerce. We deliver digital products that directly support company revenue while elevating customer experience. Join us in shaping the technological capabilities that power HEINEKEN’s global Commerce strategy.

As the Engineering Manager, your role is to oversee a team, developing in-house products, guiding technical strategy, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You champion Agile methodologies like Scrum, collaborate closely with other DevOps teams for efficient development pipelines. You drive excellence in engineering practices to deliver high-quality solutions throughout the software development lifecycle in our E-Business landscape, contributing to HEINEKEN International’s Evergreen strategy. You will work directly with the Product Owner(s) and Product Architect(s), understanding the business needs and helping Product Architect(s) to convert those needs into solution architecture specifications and services in line with overall engineering standards and roadmaps.

Your responsibilities would include:

• owning the Software Development Engineering (SDE) organization that is delivering eazle, our new global digital platform

• leading a team of experienced SDE Leads, and their SDEs in designing, developing, and delivering scalable, reliable, and high performing software solutions

• Hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and developing top engineering talent, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• driving operational excellence, including code reviews, design reviews, testing, and deployment processes, to ensure high-quality software delivery

• as frontrunner, elevating the Engineering build / ship mindset in HEINEKEN

• overseeing team spirit, performance and being responsible for key hiring decisions

• implementing good practices, coding standards and modern architecture for DevSecOps

• ensuring the execution of DevSecOps is in place across all teams within a domain and aligned

• inspiring, advising, and driving the selection of development approach for specific product

• coordinating software development and addressing technical debt

• overseeing code review and state-of-art quality of the stack

• forming a view on GenAI application in our SDE practice

• managing team budgets, including outsourcing partners

• organizing and / or participating in hackathons

You are a good candidate if you have:

• responsibility to ship secure and scalable solutions

• belief in headless architecture setups and the composable MACH software movement

• experience within set Enterprise Architecture guidance and boundaries

• demonstrated experience in leading multiple teams of SDE Leads, and SDEs (ICs)

• in-depth knowledge of and experience (> 8yrs) Marketing Automation platforms (SFMC, Microsoft, Adobe)

• experience in working with JavaScript, SQL, Azure app service, Azure functions

• knowledge of Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, and pipelines

• knowledge of building custom activities (Node.js, React)

• knowledge APIs and GraphQL (Apollo Client and Apollo GraphOS)

• worked in modular architecture, microservices, micro frontends, etc.

• expertise in omnichannel campaign template designs

• ability to work with Azure teams to comprise the best infra setup

• ability to influence stakeholders as well as balance views

• pragmatics skills, and you are collaborative team player

• excellent written and verbal English skills

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We offer:

• Flexible work from home scheme

• Attractive performance bonus

• Parking space for employees

• Flexible working hours

• Pluxee card

• Life insurance

• Employee referral programme

• Job opportunities within HEINEKEN

• Private medical healthcare

• Social events

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