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We are looking for an experienced Product Architect to help redefine the traditional technology landscape into a modern, cutting-edge one (Microservices, Kotlin/Java, Kafka, React, MongoDB) for Albert Heijn Store Operations. This critical role is embedded within a complex, large cluster responsible for applications that support all employee and business processes across more than 1,250 AH Stores in the Netherlands and Belgium.

This is how you will reinvent food retail. 
As a Product Architect for Store Operations, you will:

• Shape the technology vision for the platform.
• Assist in technology transformations, like the new data operating model, microservices transformation and more
• Provide architectural guidance and governance to support store employees in their daily tasks, such as stock management, cash management, and in-store production working on initiatives like Store Tech Centralisation, Store Edge architecture and other high impact initiatives at scale.
• Develop high-level designs for cross-platform, cross-department, and cross-country initiatives.
• Create and maintain guidelines for our self-organizing DevOps teams, assisting them in designing solutions aligned with the overall architecture.
• Engage with colleagues across the entire AH Tech department to ensure your architectural ideas align with the broader organizational goals.
• Represent the Stores and Supply Chain Platform in various architecture governance boards.
• Accelerate product teams by helping them deliver quality customer value faster and more autonomously.

You will collaborate with other architects, users, and maintainers across the organization, representing your platform in various architecture governance boards to ensure your ideas align with the broader strategic vision. 

We are seeking an expert with a clear vision, capable of working independently and in a structured manner, who can hit the ground running. Your insatiable drive to learn and share knowledge will be key to accelerating our product teams, enabling them to deliver quality customer value faster and more autonomously.

Your new team and office. 
You will join the AH Stores and Supply Chain Platform Architecture team, working alongside 8 other architects who collaborate closely with DevOps teams, Tech leads, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and stakeholders across European Ahold Delhaize brands. Together with this diverse and dynamic team, you will work on inspiring projects that accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company.

At Albert Heijn, our goal is to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping, making healthy food more accessible to everyone. You will team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital, and tech domains—a community of individuals sharing a common goal: to create digital solutions that make shopping, both online and in-store, simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food?

We invest heavily in data, digital, and tech—and that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid manner, balancing time between home and our office, which is conveniently located next to the train station in Zaandam.

We believe in fostering a high-belonging team where you can be yourself, feel safe, accepted, and appreciated. We’re especially interested in candidates who can bring diverse perspectives and ideas to the table. Even if you don’t check all the boxes, don’t hesitate to apply—we’re eager to see how you can contribute to our team!

Your profile

• Bachelor / Academic education or equivalent ability
• 8+ years of experience designing and implementing technology platforms and solutions.
• A deep understanding of software engineering (technologies, architecture and engineering principles and culture), and a track record of hands-on developing and shipping software.
• A deep understanding of modern integration technologies and microservices, event-driven and cloud architectures.
• Experience with data architectures and solutions at scale, including data marts and data lakes, is highly desirable.
• Good exposure to Agile software development methodologies and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration (CI) and automated deployment
• Avid technologist, who cultivates innovation, acts as a thought-leader, able to concisely and articulately present to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to deal with complexity of large organizations, not afraid to speak up when sub-optimal choices are being made.
• Solution oriented and results driven.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch and English

What we offer. 
At Albert Heijn we aim to grow, and this is only possible if you grow along with us. As we work together to build our brand and your career, you can count on (based on 40 hours per week): 

• An annual salary up to 110k including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus. Depending on your level of seniority and experience;   
• A minimum of 20 days paid vacation, optionally 12.5 days extra. Do you want to take that extra time off, or would you rather convert the extra days into discounts or sell them for cash? You’re the end boss!;  
• Flexible working hours;  
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy;  
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 6 times more than you as an employee;   
• A travel allowance or a NS-business card for traveling to and from Zaandam by train;  
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, to a maximum of €300 per year;  
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits; 
• A company laptop and telephone.

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors. 🚀 
Albert Heijn goes way back. More than 135 years, to be exact. So for millions of people, food shopping is synonymous with the Albert Heijn brand. We didn’t achieve this with a complacent, ‘hey, if it works today, it’ll work tomorrow’ approach, but by continually rethinking our propositions and staying plugged in to customer demands. More than 125,000 colleagues? Check. Over 1,250 stores in the Netherlands and Flanders? Check. The leading online food retail platform? Check, we build, run and love it.   
 
Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone. 
The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes have impact on the lives of our customers, colleagues and partners. And therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone. 
 
Ready to contribute to our mission? 
Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process. 

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