IT Architect, Freight Information System

The Hapag-Lloyd "Freight Information System” - FIS is the backbone of our shipping business and represents the benchmark in our industry. The global structure of transport logistics and time critical process flows comes with challenging requirements. FIS is continuously further developed by >750 internal and external developers and is currently in transition shift from on-prem to cloud. Come on board and drive the fit-for-purpose holistic architecture during and beyond this transformation.

As a “FIS Architect”, you design and facilitate the target architecture and architectural migration path of Hapag-Lloyds core Freight Information System (FIS) from a major monolithic solution towards decoupled self-contained systems. Being part of the FIS EA team, you support multiple developer teams in following that path, identifying bounded contexts, conceptualizing evolutionary migration steps, and proactive driving architectural issues. You care for an effective integration architecture, a holistic view and profound stable communication mechanisms. You are responsible for defining, evolving, and governing the FIS architecture to be followed by >750 FIS developers and >60 FIS teams and thus act rather on an enterprise architecture level but with deep solution architecture impact.

Having an ear on the developer teams concerns during the transformation journey, you pro-actively take up needs for  decisions, evaluate and prototype solution options, and drive implementation of decisions into the organization.

Your profound expertise includes both, technical experience to drive the right architectural decisions (considering also cost impact, complexity, and performance impact), as well as a clear appetite for sharing and advocating knowledge as well as advertising and aligning the target architecture to key stakeholders.

Thus, the FIS Architect is an all-rounder, who enjoys both, working with the platform team to provide the technological basis, the transformation program office, as well as with multiple developer teams. Therefore, you work simultaneously in multiple projects and foster the connection and architectural knowledge exchange within the organization.

• Detailing the evolutionary migration path towards decoupled self-contained systems
• Driving the migration path from mainframe to cloud
• Continuous further architecting and developing the functional FIS platform extensions and architectural guidelines
• Elaborating and implementing solution options for architectural requirements
• Advising our development teams on the architectural design and migration of solutions
• Serving the transformation program office in migration strategy development and governance

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge and interest in architectural design of major software solutions as distributed systems and microservice architecture
• Hands-on experience in major system migrations and transformation initiatives
• Deep knowledge in domain-driven design, integration architectures, event driven architecture, API management, data consistency solutions (e.g. SAGA pattern)
• Architect certification is a plus
• General experience in software development (especially Java/JEE), and CI/CD
• Completed studies in computer science or comparable
• Strong communication skills, self-responsibility and team player, being a bridge builder in a complex systems landscape between various IT teams and our business stakeholders
• Very good command of written and spoken English

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We offer:

• Private medical care (Saltus)
• Gym card (Multisport)
• Attractive annual bonus up to 22,5%! (depending on company performance results)
• Group life insurance and employee capital plan (PPK)
• Cafeteria benefit system (cinema tickets, vouchers etc.)
• Focus on healthy lifestyle (fruit days, bike competitions, football trainings)
• Charity and volunteer initiatives
• Modern and well-connected office (Alchemia complex in Gdańsk Oliwa)
• Relocation support (financial support, covering immigration process for non-Polish citizens)
• Internal learning management system
• Development budget (sharing the costs of certifications and conferences/ IT events)
• Flexible working hours and home office possibility (hybrid work model)

About Us With a fleet of 287 modern container ships and a Vessel Capacity 2.2 million TEU, as well as a Container Capacity 3.2 million TEU including one of the world’s largest and most modern reefer container fleets, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies. In the Liner Shipping segment, the Company has around 13.500 employees and 400 offices in 139 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 11.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 114 liner services worldwide ensure fast and reliable connections between more than 600 ports across the world. In the Terminal & Infrastructure segment, Hapag-Lloyd has stakes in 20 terminals in Europe, Latin America, the United States, India, and North Africa. The roughly 2.600 employees assigned to the Terminal & Infrastructure segment deal with terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.