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

Your impact will extend beyond our largest operating companies, as you contribute to an expansive roadmap, accelerating deployments, standardizing both technical and business perspectives, and reducing total cost of ownership. You will own the end-to-end architecture and provides the technology capabilities supporting the global Commerce products and you drive the technology decisions.

Your responsibilities would include:

• ensuring consistency of the overall solution
• working with the Product Owner to understand, elicit, analyze, document and communicate program and platform/application requirements
• formulating the architecture & design based on functional and non-functional requirements, balancing the goals and constraints on the solution
• ensuring solution design and technical decisions conforms to overall architectural (Domain, Enterprise) vision, principles, and technical roadmap standards
• conducting continuous improvement analysis on existing application architectures and identifies architectural optimizations
• maintaining awareness of emerging technologies, industry trends, and architecture best practices; and evaluating them for applicability
• ensuring the overall HEINEKEN standards and best practices are adhered by (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 ensuring the services of the technology vendors meet the business requirements
• ensuring that the key competencies and expertise needed to develop, build, deploy and support the Product are embedded in the team
• understanding the Product Owner’s needs and converting them into solution architecture specifications and services in line with overall architectural standards and roadmaps
• shaping global governance frameworks and elevating operating company capabilities
• forging relationships globally to enhance solution maturity, both technically and business-wise
• tackling data architecture, ensuring seamless data flows for enhanced journeys, and identifying opportunities for process and technology improvements that have direct business impact
• planning governance and planning for solution and capability maturity, continually assessing people, processes, and technology - the operating model for sustained excellence
• zooming out and view the solution as part of the wider D&T architecture to plan ahead in terms of technology and data architecture.