Project description

Enabling Heineken to become the most connected brewery through a new API Management capability.

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Program lead of a long term partnership to define and execute an API first strategy that enables Heineken to become the most connected brewery. Modernising Heineken’s Enterprise Integration landscape to enable the integration and global support of more than 60 operating companies across 190 countries.

Defining a vision and roadmap to deploy a modern and flexible IT infrastructure for API Management and a self-service API Developer Portal. Exposing a catalogue of more than 90 reusable APIs ready to be consumed, which enabled integration agility across Heineken’s core-businesses and external partners.

Building a practice and off-shore developer community of more than 30 employees across the world. Shaping a healthy team culture that encourages high quality standards, collaboration and knowledge sharing. Conducting mentoring and coaching activities for people’s career management.

Advancing Heineken’s engineering practices to enable faster delivery cycles and speed-to-market through best-practises for DevOps and automation. Defined integration standards and development best practises to ensure delivery quality and consistency across distributed teams.

Collaborated with internal stakeholders, external partners and distributed teams to ensure that resources are in place and operating effectively. Defined a financial cross-charging model based on API subscriptions to sustain development and operational costs. 

Technology stack: IBM API Connect, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, SAP S4/HANA, SalesForce, Boomi, Solace, Splunk

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