Senior Solution Architect
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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!
Would you like to meet the Team, see our office and much more? Visit our website: Heineken (heineken-dt.pl)
Our dream at HEINEKEN is to help our customers grow their businesses by serving them better, faster, and smarter with digital solutions. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the importance of digital in the Commerce space at Heineken. HEINEKEN’s digital solutions are a vital component in protecting and growing the company's revenue. To ensure that this trend is supported the Commerce DevOps Hub has been established. This newly created organization, being an integral part of the Global Digital & Technology Function, is tasked with engineering the software which powers e-Commerce. The Commerce DevOps Hub location is in Kraków, Poland.
The Senior Solution Architect exists to accelerate high-quality, well-governed architectural decision-making across our modular, composable platform strategy—so we can deliver faster, reduce rework, and improve the consistency, security, and resilience of the solutions we build.
This role bridges strategic architecture intent and delivery execution by creating pragmatic solution designs, reusable blueprints and reference architectures, and clear standards that enable teams to build “right first time.” Operating in a hub-centric organization, the role strengthens architectural maturity by moving from informal, relationship-based ways of working to documented, transparent, and repeatable governance—while still keeping architecture lightweight, outcome-driven, and enabling rather than blocking.
By aligning functional delivery teams and global architecture stakeholders, the Senior Solution Architect improves coherence across process, data, and technology landscapes, ensuring solutions integrate seamlessly, meet non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security, extensibility), and support long-term business objectives and scalability.
This role also champions security by design, driving awareness in the engineering teams of required assessments needed for each application that is part of the solution design. The candidate should be comfortable creating designs that embed security into the foundation, not something bolted on later. These designs and assessments, must be included in the build team work. The Solution Architect will ensure product and engineering leadership include these activities in the definition of done for the respective products.
Your responsibilities would include:
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leading end-to-end solution architecture for priority initiatives, from discovery through design to delivery assurance
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producing architecture blueprints and reference architectures aligned with the modular and composable platform strategy
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defining and maintaining solution standards, design principles, and guardrails, including NFRs, security, and integration
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driving timely architectural decision-making, trade-off analysis, and documentation of key decisions
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ensuring cross-domain integration across processes, data, and technology, including APIs, events, data products, identity, and observability
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collaborating with Enterprise and Domain Architects and delivery teams to align roadmaps and dependencies
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evaluating technologies and platforms, including build vs. buy options, cloud solutions, tooling, integration, and data, and recommending appropriate solutions
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providing architecture governance and delivery assurance through design reviews, compliance checks, and risk management
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coaching and strengthening architecture capabilities across hubs and teams through templates, playbooks, and mentoring
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ensuring all solutions are designed and implemented in accordance with HEINEKEN’s security standards and industry best practices
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ensuring security assessments, such as SCEA, are completed for products by engineering teams and that remediation items are incorporated into future designs.
You are a good candidate if you have:
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a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field
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5–8 years of overall experience in IT, software engineering, or platform roles, including 2–4 years in an architecture capacity, such as solution design lead or technical lead with architecture accountability
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working knowledge of architecture methodologies, such as TOGAF concepts and solution design practices, as well as modelling approaches and architecture documentation, including HLDs, LLDs, ADRs, and diagrams
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experience designing and delivering multiple business-critical solutions end-to-end in collaboration with product and engineering teams
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solid understanding of modern enterprise technology domains, including application development, integration through APIs and events, data fundamentals, cloud and platform concepts, and DevOps/SDLC practices
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experience contributing to architecture documentation, design reviews, and architectural decision records
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understanding of non-functional requirements, including performance, reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability, as well as secure-by-design principles
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hands-on experience designing secure and cyber-resilient solutions and familiarity with common security standards and controls
experience taking accountability for solution architecture within a product, platform component, or set of related initiatives, while collaborating with Domain and Enterprise Architects on cross-domain decisions -
cloud, architecture, or relevant platform certifications, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or TOGAF Foundation, would be an advantage
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strong English communication skills, both written and spoken, at a minimum C1 level.
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