Digital & Technology (D&T) is an integral division of HEINEKEN Global Shared Services Center. The team is committed to making HEINEKEN the most connected brewery by digitalizing and integrating processes, enabling best-in-class technology, and embedding a data-driven culture.
The Commerce DevOps Hub in Kraków, Poland, engineers the software powering HEINEKEN’s e-commerce activities. The Senior Solution Architect will accelerate high-quality, well-governed architectural decision-making across the company’s modular, composable platform strategy.
This role bridges strategic architecture intent and delivery execution through pragmatic solution designs, reusable blueprints, reference architectures, and clear standards. It strengthens architectural maturity through documented, transparent, repeatable governance while keeping architecture lightweight, outcome-driven, and enabling.
The role aligns functional delivery teams and global architecture stakeholders, ensuring solutions integrate across process, data, and technology landscapes and meet requirements for performance, reliability, security, extensibility, and scalability. It also champions security by design and ensures required security assessments are included in product delivery work.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture for priority initiatives, from discovery through design to delivery assurance.
- Produce architecture blueprints and reference architectures aligned with the modular and composable platform strategy.
- Define and maintain solution standards, design principles, and guardrails, including non-functional requirements, security, and integration.
- Drive architectural decision-making, trade-off analysis, and documentation of key decisions.
- Ensure cross-domain integration across processes, data, and technology, including APIs, events, data products, identity, and observability.
- Collaborate with Enterprise and Domain Architects and delivery teams to align roadmaps and dependencies.
- Evaluate technologies and platforms, including build-versus-buy options, cloud solutions, tooling, integration, and data.
- Provide architecture governance and delivery assurance through design reviews, compliance checks, and risk management.
- Strengthen architecture capabilities through templates, playbooks, and mentoring.
- Ensure solutions follow HEINEKEN security standards and industry best practices.
- Ensure engineering teams complete security assessments such as SCEA and incorporate remediation items into future designs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5–8 years of overall experience in IT, software engineering, or platform roles, including 2–4 years in an architecture capacity.
- Working knowledge of architecture methodologies, solution design practices, modelling approaches, and documentation such as HLDs, LLDs, ADRs, and diagrams.
- Experience designing and delivering multiple business-critical solutions end-to-end with product and engineering teams.
- Knowledge of application development, APIs and events, data fundamentals, cloud and platform concepts, and DevOps/SDLC practices.
- Understanding of non-functional requirements and secure-by-design principles.
- Hands-on experience designing secure and cyber-resilient solutions.
- Experience taking accountability for solution architecture within a product, platform component, or related initiatives.
- Cloud, architecture, or platform certifications such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or TOGAF Foundation are advantageous.
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills at a minimum C1 level.
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