Job Description

Opportunity About Maersk Maersk has the ambition to deliver an unprecedented transformation in our businesses, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and be the global integrator of logistics connecting and simplifying our customers\' supply chain through truly integrated end-to-end solutions. We are offering you a unique opportunity to help shape that journey and the future technology landscape. You will take a lead role in the company wide digital transformation, shaping the Maersk digital landscape to enable our integrator strategy. Key Responsibilities Part of the Global Enterprise Architecture team, you will lead the EA partnering across product and platform portfolios. You will be responsible for aligning these portfolios with the target architecture frameworks and supporting major transformation and modernisation initiatives from sprint zero throughout the execution phases. You will be responsible for providing the views of strategic change that show the transition from current to future operating models, combining both technology and business drivers, so that the right portfolio of investment projects can be designed and executed to achieve the strategic vision of the company. Further, in this role you will: Build a trusted partner relationship with key senior stakeholders to accelerate the transformation in Maersk, with specific focus on adoption of the enterprise architecture principles, standards and guardrails. Translate business strategy into high level technology components, in alignment with the technology strategy. Provide guidance to product and platform teams to implement scalable, reliable and secure platforms, as a composable architecture that stands the test of technology variability. Maintain the enterprise \'helicopter view\' of the strategic portfolio and assess the high-level architecture of major investment initiatives. Identify opportunities for reuse and highlight risks caused by unmanaged gaps, dependencies, and duplications. Propose scenarios to remediate where needed and develop architecture principles, standards, and guardrails for future guidance. Succeed with application modernisation and consolidation, and using value driven approaches to prioritize and motivate change in the application landscape on a global scale (within and across distributed sites) Assess the impact of potential merger and acquisitions on the target architecture, and how the combined technology estate can fulfill the business ambitions. Drive the integration of acquired applications and software across the product and platform portfolios at Maersk Drive the transition from a monolithic landscape to decoupled service-based architectures, in which autonomy, agility and innovation are balanced against interoperability, efficiency and coherence. Have a clear understanding of how cloud technologies should be used to realise distributed internet-scale architectures such as Kubernetes, containerisation, Docker, Kafka etc. Drive pragmatic application landscape transformations through the use of cloud technologies (distributed internet-scale architectures for microservices, APIs, event driven architecture, serverless architecture, caching etc.) Establish and maintain an excellent knowledge of the established and emerging software industry and vendors. Build a strong network of contacts within and beyond the organisation. Facilitate the creation of architecture roadmaps which are consistent across different product and platform teams. Create and promote an architectural mindset that enables the effective translation of strategy into delivery. Visualize and create high-level viewpoints reflecting as-is and to-be estate that can be used to extend and mature the platform and product portfolio\'s strategic thinking and pace of change. Coach, mentor and collaborate with peers, platform architects and product owners to achieve successful outcomes. Participate in the impact and change plan that will see this through to implementation. Who we are looking for The role will need a natural communicator, someone with a holistic mindset and the curiosity to continuously acquire new knowledge and skills. You understand both technology and business, and act proactively to improve your own work and that of the team. You have strong cooperation, interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Further, we are looking for someone with: Proven experience of successful delivery of large complex programmers Ability to communicate and demonstrate the value of the change to key stakeholders in both the business and technology functions. Ability to present and communicate technical concepts in a clear and concise manner Skills to build consensus across a large and often diverse group of stakeholders, ensuring stakeholder interests are identified and addressed in the development of the strategic roadmaps. Can work across multiple complex and enterprise wide projects simultaneously. Understanding of change management on a global scale across multiple functions - using a value driven approach and an understanding of E-2-E impact. Credibility and followship with software engineering community Understanding of the vision and challenges of moving from a landscape of on-prem monoliths to a cloud-native architecture composed of decoupled services leveraging a common data fabric. Proven experience of legacy modernization and resultant decomposing of monolithic applications into microservice based architectures Experience of cloud native and 12 factor application design Knowledge and awareness of open-source and inner-source approaches Comfortable with ambiguity and setting direction for others without formal authority Good knowledge of the global logistics industry & profitability drivers with a comprehensive network of contacts. Keen interest in technology industry trends and potential to translate into business value In addition, you will have the following: A good level of business acumen and experience in managing technology change. Proven experience across the various layers of a high-performance application architecture. Experience of working within Agile environments and methodologies Experience in working in international environments Worked within globally distributed matrix organisation Full professional proficiency of written and oral English Great verbal and written communication and presentation skills Consulting or business reference experience Commercial acumen You are a great communicator both with IT and non-IT people and an acknowledged team player with a high degree of personal integrity. You can lift the bar and energise people around you, while maintaining a strong personal drive and the ability to get things done. Lead Enterprise Architect

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