Senior Product Architect [Pricing & Promotions]

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!

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Commerce DevOps Hub is being established. The newly created organization, being an integral part of the Global Digital & Technology Function, is tasked with maintaining, but most importantly developing (functionally and technologically) IT solutions supporting the Commerce area at Heineken. Commerce DevOps Hub is located in Kraków and will include highly qualified IT professionals with direct contribution to both the technological development of the Heineken Commerce and the Hub itself.

Our dream at HEINEKEN is to help our customers grow by serving them better, faster, and smarter with digital solutions. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the importance of digital solutions in the Commerce area at Heineken. These IT solutions have become a vital component in supporting the company's revenue. To ensure further growth for the company, HEINEKEN is driving Connected Consumer Experiences through all of our activations. Ensuring a future-fit MarTech stack is part of this ambition.

As the Senior Product Architect for RMG in D&T Commerce – RMG team, you have an understanding and expertise in Commerce products technology stack, that allows you to be responsible for the end-to-end architecture, providing technology capabilities supporting the global Commerce products and driving the technology decisions for complex products/programs, that involve managing interdependencies between multiple products, departments, or organizations as well as an alignment with the organisation’s technical strategy. You will collaborate closely with a wide range of stakeholders to understand the business needs, helping Technology Managers, Technical Product Managers, Product Architects to convert those needs into solutions architecture and services in line with overall architecture standards and roadmaps, and HEINEKEN strategy.
 

Your responsibilities will include:

Product Architecture Management:

• define the end-to-end architecture for large, complex products delivery spanning multiple solutions and product organizations, ensuring alignment with HEINEKEN strategy and objectives across the organization
• ensure consistency of the overall solution
• working with the Product Owners/Product Managers to understand, elicit, analyze, document and communicate program and platform/application requirements
• formulates the end-to-end architecture & design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution in collaborations with Product Architects
• ensure solution design and technical decisions conforms to overall architectural (Domain, Enterprise) vision, principles, and technical roadmap standards
• conduct continuous improvement analysis on existing application architectures and identify architectural optimizations
• maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architecture best practices; and evaluate them for applicability
• you are responsible for ensuring the overall HEINEKEN standards and best practices are adhered by (i.e. Quality, Compliance)
• managing the quality of the solution and technical debt
• ensure the delivered system and services is consistent with the agreed architecture and meet the business requirements
• drive the technical validation and ensure the services of the technology vendors meet the business requirements
• you are multidisciplinary – ensuring that the key competencies and expertise needed to develop, build, deploy and support the Product are embedded in the team
• lead the orchestration of products architecture across large, complex products delivery spanning multiple solutions and product organizations, ensuring alignment on products architecture across the organization
• co-create a roadmap for products/solutions (in cooperation with Technical Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Architects and Product Managers/Product Owners)
• support the end-to-end delivery of products, spanning multiple organizations cross Commerce, ensuring the consistent releases of different packages in a modular architecture
• represent the Department in third-party architecture conversations
• act as a bridge between the team and the rest of the organization, to align on architectural needs for product deployments (alignment on environments availability and required inputs)
• grow and guard effective communication and coordination within the cross-team/org product delivery, by establishing communication channels and schedule for architecture topics

Technology Strategy Alignment:

• actively engage in defining and shaping the technology strategy in Commerce landscape, ensuring alignment with business priorities and the organization's long-term technical roadmap. Elevate technology evolution discussions and it’s impact with relevant stakeholders within the organization
• support the Technology Manager in implementing technical strategies, ensuring that engineering decisions align with both business objectives and technical standards

Stakeholder Management:

• engage with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior leadership, tribes leadership, product teams, and external partners on architecture topics
• communicate effectively across all levels of the organization, influencing decision-making at both operational and strategic levels on architecture topics

Release Orchestration/Package Management:

• performance evaluation: Evaluate performance metrics for product delivery processes across the organization and provide potential solutions to improve efficiency and quality

Strategic Planning & Execution:

• collaborate with Product Managers/Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and senior leadership to ensure that projects align with broader organizational goals and technical strategies.

You are a good match if you have:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Architect with a deep understanding of technology, products lifecycle and IT architecture, in a large-scale technical environment, defining end-to-end architecture in large-scale cross-organizational programs
• expertise in programs with the technology stack: SAP SD pricing, SAP CCM, Pricefx, Vistex or another market leader pricing, promotions and TPM technology
• deep understanding of software development, product development lifecycle, DevOps methodology, technical design, and architecture concepts
• ability to engage in detailed technical discussions with architecture and software engineering teams
• knowledge of and experience with the following products: SAP SD pricing, SAP CCM, Pricefx, Vistex or another market leader pricing, promotions and TPM technology, with the ability to understand and challenge business processes/concepts to align technical programs with business goals
• adept at managing ambiguity, identifying dependencies and conflicts, and navigating complex technical and business challenges
• strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively engage with senior leaders and influence decision-making across the organization
• ability to indirectly influence and direct teams, as well as senior stakeholders (no direct authority, no direct reports)
• effective verbal and written communication with knowledge of how to effectively convey information between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Mandatory to know: 

• very good knowledge of SAP pricing, Pricefx, Vistex or another market leader Pricing & Promotions technology.
• very good knowledge of pricing, promotions, rebate agreements / contract management architecture and the related business processes and functionalities.
• knowledge of MySQL or at least one other database and querying language.
• familiar with at least one major (data) cloud platform, e.g. Azure, AWS.
• understand the concepts of modular, microservice, or event driven architecture.
• good knowledge of SAP SD or another ERP.

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