Technology Specialist - Product Architect

at  Heineken

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!

• 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