Senior Solution Architect

Do you want to actively drive IT transformation initiatives and work on a wide range of interesting business challenges with key stakeholders across all management levels? Finance & Group Systems has 100+ employees and owns DSV’s global ERP, HR, and Compliance systems. As a Solution Architect you will play a key role in defining and enforcing global DSV architecture principles and working on the continuous improvement of DSV’s IT landscape. DSV is on a fantastic growth journey. Our IT architecture is constantly evolving, and we are looking for a trusted advisor who can analyze complex business challenges/requirements and produce designs and specifications to allow them to be solved.

Working with many stakeholders across Finance & Group Systems and across DSV

Joining Finance & Group Systems in Hedehusene, Denmark, you will join an existing community of Solution Architects who collaborate closely with our key stakeholders in the business. You will further be liaising with many of our IT vendors as well as DSV’s Global Enterprise Architecture team.

Speaking at internal expert review forums and advocating for strong architectural principles

As Solution Architect, you will create solution designs and present them to relevant expert forums for review and approval. You will further act as a strong advocate of architectural principles, raising awareness and being a knowledge resource to stakeholders with less business/IT experience. Finally, you will focus on continuously improving our existing architecture and keeping it well-documented.

Challenge, influence and support our stakeholders to solve issues and help realize the company vision

Specify technologies and application architecture as basis for application development/configuration & implementation

Design and communicate architecture designs for new solutions – while ensuring the designs adhere to design guidelines

Identify relevant solution scenarios and translate them into architectural models and roadmaps aligned to DSV’s guiding principles

Work with delivery teams to develop sustainable and achievable solutions, and help verifying the delivered system is consistent with the agreed architecture

Produce and maintain solution documentation in alignment with DSV’s documentation standards and IT strategy and drive solution implementation according to these designs

Obtain approval of solution designs via various architectural forums

Experienced Architect

We imagine that you have relevant experience from previous positions as a Solution Architect. Your qualifications will include:

University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and/or equivalent work experience

3-6 years of experience architecting or leading complicated projects

Strong analytical skills in mastering multi-functional highly scalable systems

Broad understanding of computer science, modern technologies and methodologies, multi-tenant applications and database technologies

Hands-on experience as solution architect and proven results of strong communication skills to articulate, rationalize, visualize, and document architectural decisions and designs

Work experience with several of the following: API integration, Legacy to Micro-service, Event Management, Agile development paradigm, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Business process management, architectural modelling

Your interactions with colleagues and stakeholders are characterized by the following:

Strong ability to understand complex business problems, and translate and communicate them to all layers of the organization

Ambitious and creative, taking new approaches to problem solving

Act as a system thinker with a holistic approach

Pragmatic approach to balance the transformation towards a to-be architecture while maintaining the current services

Ability to easily communicate on and switch between levels of abstraction depending on the target group and/or project stage

Fact-based, result oriented and diplomatic with the ability to act in an often-complex business environment

High energy, a can-do attitude, stamina as well as strong intellectual and inter-personal capabilities

Strong communication skills and are business fluent in English, both verbally and in writing

What we offer:

Permanent contract (with basic salary in 14 installments per year)

Private medical care

English courses - financial or co-financed by company

Food allowance (EUR 10.20, per working day)

Hybrid and flexible work (3 days in a week at the office)

Buddy

Good access to public transports

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