Sr. Solution Engineer

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates seeks a Corporate Technology Sr. Solution Engineer to enable sustainability through digital delivery and strategic advisory.

You will partner with Sustainability, Risk, Legal, and Corporate teams to translate regulatory and performance needs into scalable digital solutions for environmental impact measurement and transparency. The role requires autonomy, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to translate complex sustainability requirements into

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; PMI/PRINCE certifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior trusted advisor to corporate stakeholders on digital enablement strategy.
• Translate sustainability ambition, regulatory direction, and risks into coherent digital roadmaps.
• Represent Corporate Technology in senior sustainability forums and leadership discussions.
• Provide functional leadership to Solution Engineer roles, setting standards for partnering.
• Develop understanding of Mars sustainability priorities (climate, packaging, nature, human rights).
• Translate complex sustainability needs into clear, outcome-based problem statements.
• Challenge unclear requests to ensure focus on business value, regulatory readiness, and scalability.
• Lead proof-of-concept solutions leveraging basic coding and Power BI.
• Guide prioritization across sustainability initiatives based on risk, value, and feasibility.
• Shift stakeholders from tool requests toward outcome-based sustainability solutions.
• Assess regulatory urgency, business impact, feasibility, and delivery complexity.
• Ensure requirements are understood by delivery teams and align to enterprise standards.
• Contribute to solution design for sustainability platforms and tools (emissions calculation, data ingestion, reporting, analytics).
• Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and vendors to shape scalable solutions.
• Define and recommend solution patterns ensuring data quality, auditability, and compliance.
• Review designs for alignment with sustainability intent and enterprise architecture.
• Deliver designs that are delivery-ready for execution teams.
• Translate high-level designs into epics, features, and acceptance criteria.
• Coach and mentor Solution Engineers to strengthen translation capability.
• Establish best practices, templates, and ways of working for sustainability enablement.
• Support capability building across Corporate Technology and Sustainability teams.
• Contribute to communities of practice and cross-domain learning.

Skills

Senior stakeholder advisory

Digital enablement strategy

Roadmap planning

Solution engineering leadership

Data analytics understanding

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Power BI visualization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Power BI

Snowflake / SNOW

Automation Anywhere

Power Automate

Power Apps

Job description

Job Description:

The Corporate Technology Sr. Solution Engineer plays a critical role in enabling Mars’ sustainability ambition by bridging sustainability strategy, regulatory requirements, and digital technology delivery.

This role partners closely with Sustainability, Risk, Legal, and Corporate teams to translate regulatory, reporting, and performance needs into practical, scalable digital solutions that support environmental impact measurement, transparency, and decision‑making.

The role operates with high autonomy and strategic accountability, accountable for defining the best practices for the Solution Engineering team and collaborating with the development team to ensure transparency and accountability for delivering innovative solutions for our Corporate stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a senior trusted advisor to our Corporate stakeholders on digital enablement strategy.
• Translate sustainability ambition, regulatory direction, and emerging risks into coherent digital roadmaps.
• Represent Corporate Technology confidently in senior sustainability forums and cross‑functional leadership discussions.
• Provide functional leadership and direction to Solution Engineer roles, setting standards for effective corporate technology partnering.
• Develop a strong understanding of Mars sustainability priorities, including climate, packaging, nature, and human rights topics.
• Lead the translation of complex sustainability needs (e.g., GHG accounting, regulatory disclosures, supply chain data, impact transparency) into clear, outcome‑based problem statements.
• Challenge unclear or solution‑led requests to ensure focus on business value, regulatory readiness, and scalability.
• Work with key business stakeholders to create proof of concept solutions leveraging basic coding and Power BI
• Guide prioritization decisions across sustainability initiatives based on risk, value, and delivery feasibility.
• Help shift stakeholders from “tool requests” toward outcome‑based sustainability solutions.
• Support prioritization by assessing regulatory urgency, business impact, feasibility, and delivery complexity.
• Ensure requirements are clearly understood by delivery teams and aligned to enterprise standards.
• Contribute to solution design for sustainability platforms and tools (e.g., emissions calculation, data ingestion, reporting, analytics).
• Collaborate with architects, data engineers, and vendors to shape fit‑for‑purpose, scalable solutions.
• Define and recommend solution patterns that ensure data quality, auditability, traceability, and compliance.
• Review and challenge solution designs to ensure alignment with sustainability intent and enterprise architecture.
• Ensure designs are delivery‑ready and clearly understood by teams executing the work.
• Translate high‑level designs into delivery‑ready artifacts (epics, features, acceptance criteria).
• Coach and mentor Solution Engineers, strengthening sustainability translation capability.
• Establish and reinforce best practices, templates, and ways of working for sustainability enablement.
• Support capability building across Corporate Technology and Sustainability teams
• Contribute to communities of practice and cross‑domain learning

Job Specifications/Qualifications

Education & Professional Qualification

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree
• Desired: PMI / PRINCE certifications; PMP / PgMP / PfMP / PRINCE2

Knowledge/Experience

• 7 years + of solution engineer experience focusing on cross-platform Data and Analytics solutions
• Understanding of digital platforms, data pipelines, and analytics in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to engage meaningfully in solution design discussions (technical fluency rather than coding).
• Analytical mindset with attention to data quality, controls, and traceability.
• Experience in system integration lifecycle including system design and deployment, systems integration, data migration, and data model design.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives without formal line authority.
• Ability to remain flexible and resilient under pressure and comfortable in dealing with ambiguity in a fast-moving portfolio of activity.
• Programming/scripting experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with automation and low-code/no-code platforms awareness, such as – SNOW, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, Power Apps etc.
• Familiarity with sustainability management platforms/tools ( Environmental impact assessment, carbon accounting, regulatory compliance etc.)
• Awareness of sustainability regulatory compliance

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