Job Description

Your IT Future, Delivered

Principal Architect (EXPRESS - Customs Transformation)

With a global team of 5600+ IT professionals, DHL IT Services connects people and keeps the global economy running by continuously innovating and creating sustainable digital solutions. We work beyond global borders and push boundaries across all dimensions of logistics. You can leave your mark shaping the technology backbone of the biggest logistics company of the world. All our locations, Malaysia, Czech republic, India, Germany and the Americas earned #GreatPlaceToWork certification, reflecting our commitment to exceptional employee experiences.

Digitalization. Simply delivered.

At IT Services, we are passionate about technology. Our Custom Platform team is continuously expanding. No matter your level of software architecture proficiency, you can always grow within our diverse environment.

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Grow together

Ensuring the timely delivery of DHL packages worldwide while keeping customer data secure is at the core of what we do. This means that our solution design will need to cater for secure mission-critical and zero downtime requirement from our business. You will leverage the best technologies to provide solutions for end-to-end connected systems. Sometimes complex challenges may arise and this is where cooperation with other IT teams and specialists will come into play.

You will also ensure that our solution’s architecture is aligned with and meets our high standards both during the proposal and project stages. Once a project is approved, you will work closely with the implementation team to ensure that we deliver as promised and of high quality.

Ready to embark on the journey? Here’s what we are looking for:

As a Senior Architect, having at least 3-8 years of software architecture experience in designing complex end-to-end solutions is mandatory. Very good knowledge of Enterprise Architecture will also be an integral part of this role. You are interested in working on Enterprise Architecture initiatives and will be able to go both wide and deep across multiple architectural topics. You will also help coordinate architecture forums and work across multiple domains within our logistic business. You will have many opportunities to collaborate across teams, particularly with fellow architects and other talented colleagues.

You are a technology aficionado, therefore you have a good understanding of Agentic AI and cloud-native design. Experience with Java technologies is highly desirable, including hands-on exposure to Java-based application design and microservices architecture.

You are able to work independently, prioritize and organize your tasks under time and workload pressure. Working in a multinational environment, you can expect cross-region collaboration with teams around the globe, thus advanced spoken and written English will be essential.

An array of benefits for you:

• An extra week of holiday (25 days/year), 6 Self-sickness days, Full compensation for up to 10 days absence due to illness/year, Up to 3 additional personal paid days off for long-term service
• Annual bonus
• On-going professional & technical training and certifications
• Flexible working hours with home office possibilities
• Edenred Cafeteria program including fully covered lunch vouchers; pension/life insurance, medical membership, long-term sickness insurance
• Company car for business & private purposes/car allowance
• Multisport card, Discounts with selected partners, Rewards for work anniversaries, Company events and Health Days, Fruit days, One-time maternity grant, Opportunity to buy Deutsche Post AG shares at a discount, and much more