Technology Specialist - Product Architect [Distributor]

Technology Specialist - Product Architect [Distributor]

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)

As a Product Architect - Distributor, you own the end-to-end ideation, solutioning, architecture and scaling of our tools we provide our distributors, data connectors and relation with front end apps, which contribute significantly to HEINEKEN International’s Evergreen strategy. We are executing on our insourcing strategy to strengthen organizational knowledge and ability to deliver and maintain quality solutions.

You will work directly with the Product Owner(s), understand the business needs and help convert those needs into a solution architecture specification and services in line with overall architectural standards and roadmaps. You will have a relentless focus every day on further expanding, improving, integrating, and making the product(s) successful across our Operating Companies across the world. Driving harmonization and scalability where possible. You will work in a team of architects in the order management space and closely collaborate with the domain architect, DevOps team, etc. The DevOps teams consist of a Product Owner, Business Analysts, Scrum teams and a Service Manager. Your experience and specialist knowledge make you the right person to oversee and guide internal and external product teams substantively in their daily work.

You work closely with stakeholders from all over the company, Global & local, and the rest of the E-business team and colleagues within Digital & Technology and will report directly to the Chapter Lead Order.

Your responsibilities would include:

• formulating and documenting the architecture & design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution
• selecting the preferred technology to service the product and documenting the rationale behind it
• ensuring solution design and technical decisions conform to overall architectural (Domain, Enterprise) vision, principles, non-functional requirements and technical roadmap standards
• conducting continuous improvement analysis on existing application architectures and identifying architectural optimizations
• ensuring the delivered system and services are consistent with the agreed architecture and meet the business requirements
• driving the technical validation and ensuring the services of the technology partners meet the business requirements.
• managing stakeholders across global & local, within D&T and with business areas.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math (STEM) or related technical field OR university degree AND any combination of equivalent experience, education and training
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and/or business applications development
• Proven ability to shape solution architecture and fit within the wider landscape
• Relevant knowledge of Agile/SCRUM and DevOps, JIRA, creating and testing User Stories
• Expertise in at least one programming language and its main frameworks
• Experience in Systems Architectural styles (Monolith, Plugin, SOA, Microservices, Event-driven)
• Experience with APIs and capabilities; Experience with REST-based APIs, Using SemVer for the API Documentation in OpenAPI spec
• Familiarity with Monitoring Tools, Metrics, and Observability
• Understanding of/Experience with MACH
• Relevant knowledge of Coding, Machine Learning, AI and technologies around data analytics
• Experience in leading the deployment of systems into production
• Familiarity with Cloud platforms and main providers
• Excellent (B2/C1) oral and written command of English.