Platform Architect

HAVI is a global, privately owned company focused on innovating, optimizing and managing the supply chains of leading brands. Offering services in marketing analytics, packaging, supply chain management and logistics, HAVI partners with companies to address challenges big and small across the supply chain, from commodity to customer. Founded in 1974, HAVI employs more than 10,000 people and serves customers in more than 100 countries. HAVI’s supply chain services are complemented by the customer engagement services offered by our affiliated company The Marketing Store. For more information, please visit HAVI.com. 

Our Global Business Services (GBS) center was launched in 2019. We handle top-notch financial, planning, and supply chain services, actively supporting core business activities including master data management, end-to-end procurement, and supply chain business intelligence analysis for clients in over 30 countries across Europe and beyond. Our teams in Kraków and Katowice focus on efficiency, innovation, and digital transformation, always aiming to exceed our clients’ expectations.

Join us in our mission to promote sustainable development and reduce our environmental footprint. Work in a diverse and inclusive environment where every voice matters. Discover endless career opportunities with exciting projects, hands-on learning, and professional growth.

Come aboard and help us shape the future of supply chain management!

Platform Architect

The Platform Architect – Customer Platform, will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining an established technical platform, built in Azure. As a Platform Architect, you will be responsible for translating technical requirements into effective technical solutions/improvements, ensuring scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and alignment with best practices.

You have experience developing production grade platforms built in Azure, leveraging React, C#, and .NET framework. You are highly ambitious, career driven, humble, and customer obsessed. On the customer platform team, everything we do is for the customer. This person understands the customer’s priority, they make technical recommendations and improvements to our platform accordingly.

The Platform Architect will coach and guide our engineers - providing relevant and constructive input on development, testing and deployment tasks. They will also collaborate closely with our customer platform development and operations teams, ensuring smooth handover of production solutions to our operations team. This person will lead the ongoing review of code, documentation, and knowledge sharing sessions with the operations team.

The role will include day-to-day collaboration and design discussions with our Global Supply Chain Planning and Analytics (GPA) team, as well as with our strategic software partners.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and maintains our existing high-quality technical platform
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams: including frontend and backend engineers, web and mobile teams, UI COE (center of excellence, testing COE, integration COE, product managers, and tech leadership) to define and implement new features and enhancements

• Guides the development of clean, scalable, and efficient code through code reviews, pull requests, etc.
• Ensures best practices throughout our platform by conducting continuous solution reviews
• Continuously identifies technical debt and cost efficiencies in our web and Azure ecosystem
• Stays up to date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in software development
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to junior developers
• Designs, develops, and implements continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Creates detailed technical documentation, including system architecture, requirements specifications, run books, user guides and training materials
• Participates in project planning and execution, including task estimation, resource allocation, progress tracking and risk management

Desired Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Platform Architect in Azure
• Proven experience (10+ years) as a Platform, Solution, or Application Architect or in a similar role, preferably within supply chain management or planning domains
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing Azure services, including but not limited to infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, identity/authentication/authorization, monitoring, alerting, and reporting services
• Proficient in security best practices and frameworks like ISO and ISF
• Proficienct in security architecture topics like single sign on, federation, identity, disaster recover architectures, etc
• Experience with relevant technologies such Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to analyze and resolve technical challenges
• Familiarity with development tools like VS Code, and version control systems like Azure DevOps or Git
• Experience with RESTful APIs and integrating them into applications
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and optimize code
• Preference to work in an agile development environment and participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Ability to cooperate with both tech and business stakeholders
• Fluent in English
• Experience working with global teams in multiple time zones

Benefits

• Possibility of turning your own ideas into success
• Diverse development opportunities
• Varied and interesting field of work
• Responsible task with plenty of leeway
• Collegial working atmosphere
• Open corporate culture
• Cooperation with a dynamic team
• Attractive remuneration models with performance-related pay
• Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
• Successful and rapidly growing employer
• Comprehensive, individual familiarization with the work
• Offer for health promotion
• Modern work equipment
• Diverse development opportunities in an international environment
• Training according to training schedule and training regulations in the relevant specialist field

At HAVI GBS, we believe in an inclusive and sustainable workplace where our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we are committed to promoting diversity within the organization, as well as an inclusive environment where everyone can feel valued and respected, regardless of their background.