System Architect

• Own design, implementation, & enhancement responsibility for the DM backend components, including applications, APIs, and integrations.
• Analyze incoming change requests/ demands to DM application collaborating with SME and Business Analyst. 
• Ensure new feature and components are developed in line of the DM Solution Architecture. 
• Ensure adherence to Schenker architectural standards and best design practices. 
• Drive technical design changes & adaptations for services and interfaces based on evolving requirements.
• Design documentation for components for existing and newly built architectures.
• Conduct system tests and driving technical improvements.
• Collaborate with DBAs & DevOps team members to address and prevent system-level health and operational issues.
• Coordinate with development & testing teams to enhance overall technical quality by clearing technical debts.
• Own the DM system-level architecture in collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs) from head office along with product administration and management peers’ collaboration.
• Work closely with solution architect(s) for design analysis, reviews, & validation of architectural changes 
• Serve as a backup domain SME to prevent single points of failure in domain expertise.
• Coach developers on best practices related to design patterns, clean architecture, cloud-native, and microservices.

• University degree in computer science, IT or equivalent.
• 3-4 years of experience in technical leadership roles (e.g., Lead Developer, System Architect, Software Architect) with an overall minimum technical/IT experience of 10-14 years.
• Must have expertise with the Java ecosystem with hands on experience in technical Spring boot, JMS, JAX 
• Experience in asynchronous backend design (Pub-Sub) such as SQS, KAFKA or RabbitMQ is required.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EFS, SNS SQS, S3 is Required. 
• Experience with ELK and Prometheus for application log and metrics monitoring. 
• Experience with microservice patterns (such as Domain Driven, Event Driven, and CQRS) is valuable.
• Good knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Familiarity with database design best practices and performance analysis. 
• Experience in designing & aligning system interface documentation to ensure clarity and consistency.
• Business fluency in both written and spoken English is a must.
• Strong at effective cross-cultural communication with an international & collaborative mindset.
• Knowledge about agile software delivery methodologies along with experience of handling development tickets in Jira & documentation in Confluence like tools.

Optional Requirements:

• Logistic business knowledge
• Working experience in an international environment.

혜택:

At our global Digital Document Services (DDS) team, we provide cross-functional services for all Business and Functional Units worldwide within Schenker supporting them with our services as backbone for Schenker operations digital creation, distribution, archival and document access processes. Running initiatives and upcoming projects are thriving to further improve and boost our way of digitizing Schenker’s global digital document management. 

We are looking to build a team of solution and system architects to work in one of the most critical application development & maintenance teams providing services with a various number of applications within the Schenker IT landscape and get to know Schenker various IT and business use cases with all the teams and its cross functional interfaces and help us to further scale up and grow with us together.

General description:

As a “System Architect” in Document Management (DM), your role will play a critical part in achieving business success through reliable and efficient Document management systems. You will be part of the Digital Document Services team ensuring proper system design for the applications which are used as core interface for Schenker biggest transport management systems e.g., for air & ocean business. You will be part of an international product management team located in Warsaw/Poland and Essen & Frankfurt/Germany. 

This role is expected to:

•    Drive system level technical design implementation of legacy and greenfield components. 

•    Have constant focus on architectural best practices for solving scalability, availability and security areas in DM application. 

•    Ensure consistency and quality in the digital document services landscape. 

•    Work closely with different Solution architects, other System Architects, Lead developer and development team as well as Product Managers to enhance stability and drive improvements.