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 RMG (Revenue Management and Margin Growth) at HEINEKEN, where were on a digitalization journey to become the best-connected brewer, aligning with our EVERGREEN 2025 strategy. Were 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 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 own the end-to-end architecture and provides the technology capabilities supporting the Global RMG products and you drive the technology decisions.
- You understand the Product Owner’s needs and convert them into solution architecture specifications and services in line with overall architectural standards and roadmaps. shape global governance frameworks and elevate operating company capabilities.
- Forge relationships globally to enhance solution maturity, both technically and business-wise.
- Tackle data architecture, ensuring seamless data flows for enhanced journeys, and identify opportunities for process and technology improvements that have direct business impact.
- Your role involves planned governance and planning for solution and capability maturity, continually assessing people, processes, and technology- the operating model for sustained excellence.
- You are able to zoom out and view the solution as part of the wider D&T architecture to plan ahead in terms of technology and data architecture.
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 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 evaluate 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 ensure the services of the technology vendors meet the business requirements.
You are a good candidate if you have:
- at least 3-5 years of relevant (global) experience in a similar position
- experience architecting and deploying RMG solutions across multiple markets
- understanding of business strategies and objectives of RMG and the related technology
- very good knowledge of Pricing & Promotions architecture and the related business processes and functionalities
- very good knowledge of RMG related platforms like trade promotions management, execution and optimization, e.g. Anaplan, visualfabriq
- very good knowledge of SAP S4 HANA pricing, SAP condition contract management, and SAP VC&P, PriceFX, Vistex or another market leader Pricing & Promotions technology
- very good knowledge of Pricing & Promotions architecture and the related business processes and functionalities
- experience in working with Business Intelligence tools, data analytics and dash boarding
- familiarity with at least one major (data) cloud platform, e.g. Azure, AWS, or GCP
- a desire to champion the concepts of a modular, microservice, or event driven architecture
- knowledge of SAP S4 HANA Sales & Distribution or another ERP
- middleware and integration knowledge (API Connect, Boomi, Solace, etc.)
- excellent facilitation, presentation, and analysing skills
- business domain expertise in RMG for the relevant product
- skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and financial modelling
- 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.
