This role is part of the D\&T; department of HEINEKEN International and is in Heineken Global Shared Service, Krakow, Poland. D\&T; is proud to bring cutting-edge innovation, strong technology, and advanced analytics to HEINEKEN. With speed and agility, we ensure HEINEKEN has the technological competitive advantages it needs to deliver on its ambition.

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Tech Acceleration is the Tribe offering the foundation that empowers product teams and process owners to orchestrate, build and operate their digital products with confidence and speed at scale. Within the Tribe the DevTech product provides a comprehensive set of HEINEKEN-managed engineering tools and paved-road capabilities that enable digital product teams to design, build, test, and deliver digital products faster. It improves developer experience, standardizes engineering practices, and reduces setup effort by offering an integrated and ready-to-use toolchain.

As Senior Technology Specialist – Product Architect, you are responsible for the end to end product architecture, technical direction, and quality of HEINEKEN’s DevTech platform. This includes both the inhouse built Self Service Platform as well as a large part of the developer tooling that is offered by DevTech. You ensure that the platform is secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned with HEINEKEN’s business strategy, global architecture standards, and long term roadmap.

You operate at the intersection of product and technology, enabling product teams to deliver value at scale while safeguarding platform integrity. You support the Product Owner and development team(s) in building and maintaining a highly-scalable, resilient and cost-effective platform in line with the needs of Developers throughout the company.

Your responsibilities would include:

• owning the end-to-end architecture and technical direction of the DevTech product
• defining the architecture roadmap for both the Self Service Platform and the managed developer tooling ecosystem
• helping ensure the latest market trends and company stakeholder needs are being taken into account in the product roadmap
• ensuring the platform is being kept secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and cost-effective
• guiding development teams on solution design, standards, and technical quality
• aligning product architecture with HEINEKEN’s business strategy, enterprise standards, and long-term roadmap
• driving reuse, standardization, and an improved developer experience across the platform.

You are a good match if you have:

• bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or a related field
• extensive experience in architecture, platform engineering, or technical leadership within enterprise software environments
• strong knowledge of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, IaC, code quality, automation, and developer workflows
• experience operating in global, complex organizations with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and governance requirements
• strong architectural knowledge of integrations, shared services, platform dependencies, and secure-by-design principles
• strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams around a common technical direction
• excellent written and verbal English.

You are a perfect candidate if you also have:

• experience with enterprise developer tooling such as Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Terraform, GitHub Copilot, and related platforms
• experience with internal developer portals, paved-road strategies, and platform product management
• knowledge of enterprise architecture methods and governance practices
• relevant certifications in architecture, cloud, DevOps, Agile, or security.

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