Technology Specialist - Digital Integration Solution Architect

Heineken; Kraków; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Kraków seeks a Solution Architect for Digital Integration to guide platform teams and delivery in building scalable, secure integration solutions across MuleSoft, SAP, Azure, and more. You will define standards, lead architecture projects, and ensure alignment with Heineken IT strategy.

You will collaborate with Tribe Lead, Product Owners, and developers, steer requirements, provide technical guidance, and drive continuous improvement while maintaining comprehensive architecture

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT, CS, or related field.
• 7+ years of IT experience.
• 5+ years in an architect role, especially in Digital Integration.
• Strong knowledge of integration platforms and API/messaging systems.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural standards.
• Develop and maintain architecture guidelines.
• Ensure alignment with IT strategy.
• Collaborate with Tribe Lead to define vision, roadmap.
• Prioritize new features considering technical challenges.
• Provide technical consultation and problem-solving.
• Act as subject matter expert to stakeholders.
• Drive Continuous Improvement.
• Lead analysis of existing integration solutions and improvements.
• Gather business needs and feedback.
• Share knowledge and maintain documentation.
• Facilitate training sessions for developers.

Skills

Fluent English

Solution design

Architectural design

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in IT/CS

Tools

MuleSoft

TIBCO

Azure Integration Services

SAP Integration Suite

Azure DevOps

Job description

Function:Digital & Technology

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 in the world. 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 shaping the future of Heineken.

Digital Integration platforms act as a neural system to enable various business processes across all business units, for our operations in over 190 countries globally. We enable and empower the exchange of millions of messages on a daily basis, securely with ultra-low latency. Additionally, our platforms support hundreds of developers across federated/ domain teams in developing and deploying interfaces according to the needs of all Heineken OpCos.

Over the past five years, the successful adoption of standardized Digital Integrations has resulted in a 100-fold increase in monthly message traffic processed through our integration platforms.

As a Technology Specialist, in the role ofSolution Architect Digital Integration, you area trusted solution advisor for Business Users and Federated Teams Developers. You will help our platform teams and delivery teams in choosing the right solution to build and maintain a highly-scalable, resilient, and cost-effective integration environment. You will take part together with Platform Architects in building high-resilience solutions, design, integration, architecture standards, and policies. You will also safeguard the E2E demand-to-operate processes of new integrations building so that it follows are standards and policies. You will work in close cooperation with Tribe Lead, Product Owners, Product Architect, Platform Architects, the integration SMEs, Federated Team Leads, Business Users, and our System Integrator partner(s).

You have a clear focus on guiding our delivery teams for the creation of stable, reusable, scalable integration solutions.You lead the discovery, creation, and deployment of our integration standards, policies, and guidelines. It’s your responsibility to build awareness of those documents across delivery teams and guide them in case of doubts. You will act as the SPOC for Federated Teams and Business Users to the Digital Integration World.

Lastly, you may be partnering with our vendors/suppliers and leading agencies to understand new integration trends, platform capabilities, and innovative design that support upscaling and reusability.

HEINEKEN follows a non-native Hybrid Integration Platform strategy. We have multiple integration platforms, each support a unique integration pattern. Each platform is owned by one of the Product Teams: IPaaS owns SAP (SAP PO and SAP CI) and Mulesoft, EDA(Event Driven Architecture) owns Boomi and Solace, API owns Azure API Management and GraphQL, EDI+MFT owns Seeburger. Around these platforms, we strive for maximal automation (UI-Path), for maximal transparency (NewRelic), highest code quality (SonarQube), and consistent release management (Azure Dev/Ops and CTS+).

Your responsibilities would include:

• defining architectural standards
• developing and maintaining architectural guidelines, principles, and standards for the integration development
• ensuring alignment with best practices, industry standards, and Heineken’s IT strategy.
• collaborating with the Tribe Lead to define the Solution Architects and Tribe’s vision, roadmap, and future capabilities
• supporting prioritization of new features and capabilities, considering technical challenges and long-term goals
• actively participate in the intake of new requirements
• understanding the background and technical limitations, followed by guidance on the best solution for new integration requirements
• doing technical consultation and problem-solving
• acting as a subject matter expert by advising the tribe lead, platform architects, developers, and stakeholders on complex topics.
• driving Continuous Improvement
• leading the analysis of existing integration solutions, identifying architectural optimizations, and driving the implementation of improvements
• understanding business needs and gathering feedback
• analyzing the current needs and trends, and leading the initiatives to address those needs
• collecting feedback from stakeholders and proposing actions to improve the tribe’s ways of working to maximize the delivered value
• knowledge sharing - maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture designs, processes, and integrations
• facilitating knowledge sharing and training sessions to onboard developers and stakeholders effectively.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in IT
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in an architect's role or similar, preferably in a field related to Digital Integration. Theexperience should include solution design, requirements management, stakeholder management, creation and maintenance of architecture guidelines and policies.
• strong knowledge of integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, TIBCO, Azure Integration Services, SAP Integration Suite) and their capabilities, including API management, messaging systems, and event-driven architectures
• expertise in designing scalable, reliable, and high-performing integrations
• strong understanding of event-driven and API driven architectures
• experience of working in a dynamic environment, changing priorities, with long term vision
• deep understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and their native integration capabilities
• knowledge of cloud-based services like serverless architecture, storage, and identity management
• strong ability to communicate architectural designs, technical solutions, and platform needs effectively to both technical and business stakeholders
• facilitates cross-functional collaboration among developers, product owners, security, and business architects
• proficiency in Agile methodologies and workflows, especially in product-oriented setups
• knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and associated tools (e.g., Azure DevOps)
• fluent English, both written and spoken.

You are a perfect match if you also have:

• TOGAF certification
• Boomi, SAP, Mulesoft, or other integration-related certifications
• understanding of DevOps practices

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