Job Description

SUMMARY

We are searching for an experienced Architect to join our talented team. Your central responsibility as the data architect will be to develop, optimize, and oversee our conceptual and logical data systems. Your duties may include preparing architect reports, monitoring the system, and supervising system migrations.

To succeed in this role, you should know how to examine new data system requirements and implement migration models. The ideal candidate should have proven experience in data analysis and management, with excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Datawarehouse data model design and architecture.
• Build working relationships with business representatives and IT representatives to gain sufficient understanding of the business needs and variance to allow a clear definition and optimization if required of a solution architecture.
• Identify and document all aspects/views of the solution.
• Review project documentation to ensure compliance with the solution architecture. Ensure that the designs are consistent with the overall DHL Express IT target architecture.
• Track; provide visibility to architecture exceptions to enterprise architecture. Raise and document the exceptions.
• Responsible to the domain Architects for the implementation of the domain architecture and standards.
• Responsible to the project/program manager for the specification of a solution architecture that satisfy the business requirements implementable within the constraints of budget and timelines.
• Working relationship with other members of the architecture teams to seek alignment and to leverage opportunities across DHL Express.
• Propose to Global Enterprise Architecture best practices that result from the IT solution implementation.
• Ensure the architecture governance and touch point processes are followed during the project lifecycle.
• Identify redundancies in the domain IT landscape view and propose to the Enterprise Architecture simplification strategies.
• Responsible of the realization of the IT solution architecture of projects.
• Contribute to the development and realization of the DHL Express target architecture.
• Provide impact analysis on potential changes to the solution architecture e.g. as a result of changes in the business requirement or IT solution.
• Propose changes to the domain target architecture to the domain Architects.
• Participate in Enterprise Architecture team meetings as required
• Act as coach for less senior Architects

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE

• Minimum 10 years of multi-disciplined IT experience including:
• At least 5 years of architecture responsibilities in large sophisticated organization with high volume/high BI environment.
• Development experience in a team that has provided world-class results, specification and configuration of systems, interfaces, including data and performance analysis across large multi-national organizations.
• Expertise in Teradata or Snowflake technology, including BI data modeling
• Gathers information needed for analysis; analyzes and defines functional and technical requirements; prepares architectural requirements documentation.
• Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Establishing courses of action for self and others (i.e. IT suppliers) to ensure that architecture is developed and implemented efficiently.
• Accomplishing architecture tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful for deviations in quality.
• A strategic thinker with the imagination and foresight to conceptualize new technological solutions and products that address the core business objectives
• Energetic, enthusiastic and results-oriented
• Committed to \xe2\x80\x9cbest practices\xe2\x80\x9d and best in class architecture frameworks and development methodologies enabling to position DHL as a leader and innovator in the marketplace
• In depth technical background with solid accomplishments in delivering solutions with reduced complexity
• Superior communication skills with technical and non-technical senior management.
• Ability to team with, and manage, a strong partner/supplier system
• Ability to overcome the complexities involved in changing processes and implementing new technologies, and the resulting impact on people and the organization.
• Ability to focus on what is important for the organization as a whole whilst operating within a level of organizational ambiguity.
• Advanced University Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent education.
• Architecture certifications from information systems professional body preferred

WHAT YOU WILL GET FROM US

• Great Team of IT Professionals with Global Working Exposure
• Flexible Benefits \xe2\x80\x93 Customized According to Individual Needs
• On-Going Professional and Technical Training and Certifications
• A Multicultural Environment in Modern Offices
• Choose Any Day for Your Vacation from Earned Public Holiday (Saturday and Ad Hoc)
• Smart Casual Everyday
• Global Internal Job Opportunities Available Within DHL Group
• Unlimited Outpatient Medical
• Home Office Possibilities

Sounds good? Start your application now!

ABOUT US \xe2\x80\x93 DHL IT Services

IT Services is the internal provider of specialized IT Build services and industrialized IT Run services to DHL Group:

• Supports over 260,000 DHL Group e-mail users;
• Runs more than 7700 servers;
• Supports more than 2000 global services and applications;
• Processes 9 million shipment information messages per day;
• 200,000 man days per year of development application.

Apart from being more than 5000 highly skilled IT professionals with an intimate knowledge of the logistics industry, we at IT Services altogether represent more than 80 nationalities. IT Services is working behind the scenes 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year in the data centers and offices across three continents - Americas (Mechanicsburg, Westerville, Tempe in USA and Mexico, Costa Rica and Brazil), Europe (Prague in Czech Republic; Bonn and Darmstadt in Germany) and Asia (Cyberjaya in Malaysia and Chennai in India).

You would be part of over 1800 highly skilled IT professionals working in a friendly, multicultural environment of 26 nationalities in Cyberjaya.

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