DHL, an award-winning, leading supply chain business is seeking a Solutions Architect. In this role you will provide architecture leadership and champion regional governance aligned to group strategy. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for enterprise solutions in line with business strategy, group guidelines, policies and agreed priorities - working with Global Centre of Excellence (CoEs).
Lead the regional Solutions Architecture agenda to ensure professional alignment of IT products and technologies across deployment, support and commercial management. Leverage architectural best practices and promote the re-use of solutions wherever possible, to support the over-arching mission: to optimise DSC's architecture towards replicable and easily integrated supply chain solutions.
IT is the nerve system of Supply Chain – we connect different parts of our organisation with each other and to customers, translating business needs into solutions across the globe. Our IT professionals play a vital role as strategic partners, capable of enacting value-adding change through standardisation, differentiation and innovation.
WHAT DOES THE ROLE ENTAIL?
As part of your normal duties, whilst maintaining excellent health and safety practices, you will be responsible for:
* Drive the mapping of product, sector, and customer requirements to strategic, replicable, reusable, scalable, integrated, and cost-efficient end-to-end IT Solutions.
* Identify best practices and guide the business, at Global and Regional level, towards realistic replication of existing solutions and processes.
* Lead selection process of new IT products to close functional gaps. Promote collaboration, alignment, and knowledge share with Global CoEs and multi-regional teams.
* Ambassador for Strategic Change and Standardisations.
* Drive Accelerated Standardisation at every opportunity. Identify and position value of Standardisation across the Business.
* Provide Thought Leadership in IT for Value based selling and commercialisation.
* Act as visionary and strategist for IT Products, Solutions and Technologies.
* Maintain the architecture framework, in alignment with Domains, Sectors and Global IT teams ensuring appropriate documentation is developed, shared, and governed.
* Represent the region within the DSC Solutions Architects Group (SAG) and share visibility and awareness of project architecture updates across the DSC ecosystem.
* Create and maintain Enterprise blueprints and cookbooks for regional solutions based on vendor capabilities and DPDHL best practices - to help operations understand the capabilities, costs, and timelines for implementing solutions with confidence that solutions are cost effective and built to approved standards.
WHAT DO WE NEED FROM YOU?
* Proven in-depth IT experience with IT architecture background - in technical, application or data management.
* Recent experience of working in a global, multi-national company.
* Experience of Supply Chain or logistics industry and IT products.
* Requirements gathering and definition with proven ability to champion an idea and bring a group to consensus.
* Ability to integrate the solution to domains/standards and best practices.
* Demonstrable planning and estimating skills.
* Specialist level knowledge of Software development lifecycles & support - advanced understanding of technical and software architecture.
* Project management hands-on experience and expertise as well as ability to adopt a consulting style as appropriate.
* TOGAF 9 certification desired.
* ITIL v3 desired. Good understanding of multiple technologies (e.g. RDBMS, Cloud Computing / SaaS, Mobile, SOA, UI, Integration, SQL, .NET platform, Java, Open Source, Web services, automation, AI etc.).
WHY CHOOSE US?
As well as competitive pay rates, you will be entitled to an award-winning range of benefits including:
* Access to our Private Medical Insurance through AXA Health.
* Use of a company car (or car allowance), with choice from a variety of manufacturers including hybrid and electric vehicle options.
* Free confidential 24/7 GP Service.
* Hundreds of discounts (including Retail, Childcare + Gym).
* Affordable loans & Enhanced Pension Scheme.
* 24/7 employee support service for you (+ family) with access to free counselling and much more.
OUR APPROACH TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent and consistent across the UK. Find out more about our Global approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging: https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/diversity
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DHL is the global leader in Supply Chain management and we keep the world moving. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more, so they can deliver to their customers.
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