Technology Specialist - Product Architect

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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Join our vibrant team as a Product Architect at HEINEKEN, where we're on a digitalization journey to become the best-connected brewer, aligning with our EVERGREEN 2025 strategy. We're evolving to be more customer and consumer-centric, and your role is a pivotal opportunity to make a significant impact in achieving that goal. Be part of the transformation and contribute to our exciting journey toward excellence!

As a Product Architect you immerse yourself in a collaborative Agile squad alongside a business analyst, product owner, and implementation team. 

Your responsibilities would include:

• Ensuring consistency of the overall solution 
• Working with the Product Owner to understand, elicit, analyze, document and communicating program and platform/application requirements 
• Formulating the architecture & design based functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution 
• Ensuring solution design and technical decisions conform to overall architectural (Domain, Enterprise) vision, principles and technical roadmap standards 
• Conducting continuous improvement analysis on existing application architectures and identifying architectural optimizations 
• Maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends and architecture best practices; and evaluate them for applicability 
• Ensuring the overall HEINEKEN standards and best practices are adhered to (i.e. Quality, Compliance)
• Managing the quality of the solution and technical debt 
• Ensuring the delivered system and services is consistent with the agreed architecture and meet the business requirements 
• Driving the technical validation and ensure the services of the technology vendors meet the business requirements. 

You are a good candidate if you:

• You have at least 3-5 of relevant (global) experience in a similar position 
• You have experience architecting and deploying Pricing & Promotions solutions across multiple markets
• You have very good knowledge of SAP pricing, Pricefx, Vistex or another market leader Pricing & Promotion technology
• You have very good knowledge of Pricing & Promotions architecture and the related business processess and functionalities 
• You understand the business strategies and objectives of Revenue Margin Growth, and the related technology
• You have very good knowledge of MySQL or at least one other database and querying language 
• You are familiar with at least one major (data) cloud platform, e.g. Azure, AWS, or GCP
• You champion the concepts of a modular, microservices, or event driven architecture
• You have knowledge of SAP SD or another ERP
• You have middleware and integration knowledge (API Connect, Boomi, SAP PO, Solace, etc.)
• You have excellent facilitation, presentation, and analyzing skills
• You have business domain expertise for the relevant product 
• You have skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and financial modelling
• Experience in working with Business Intelligence tools would be a plus
• You have experience of working in a deadline driven environment with rapid release cycles
• Experience with Agile way of working
• Experience in rollout global solution operating across the markets will be considered as a plus

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