About Hapag-Lloyd
With a fleet of 264 modern container ships and a total transport capacity of 2.0 million TEU, 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 135 countries. Hapag-Lloyd has a container capacity of 2.9 million TEU – including one of the largest and most modern fleets of reefer containers. A total of 113 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 handle terminal-related activities and provide complementary logistics services at selected locations.

Introduction

Our IT teams are one of the strategic factors for Hapag-Lloyd's global success. Our core system "FIS" (Freight Information System) is one of the most advanced software solutions in the field of ERP software for container lines. We are looking for talented, technology-driven people to help us grow and prepare for the future challenges in our industry.

With a particular focus on the “IT Commercial Products”, we are looking for a solution architect for the cluster Customer Service & Niche Business, which offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of Hapag-Lloyd.

The Customer Service & Niche Business cluster aims to improve customers’ experience in regards of customer service documentation (such as document indexing, MTD creation/draft cycle, document monitoring), customer service import documentation, container releases, customs, invoice & dispute and niche products.

As “Product architect (m/f/d)”, you design and facilitate the architectural migration path of a major monolithic solution towards decoupled self-contained systems. You support the multiple developer teams within the cluster in following that path, identifying bounded contexts, conceptualizing evolutionary migration steps, and driving architectural issues. You care for the integration architecture, a holistic data view and communication mechanisms.

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

Your profound suggestions consider cost impact, complexity, and performance impact.

Thus, you are 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.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

  • Detailing the evolutionary migration path towards decoupled self-contained systems
  • Continuous further architecting and developing the FIS 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 with regards to migration strategy development and governance
  • Architectural support and interdisciplinary cooperation with IT teams and business stakeholders to clarify and solve cross-domain issues, and to govern architectural standards implementation

Requirements and Qualifications:

  • BSc/MSc in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering or equivalent experience
  • 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 integration architectures, event driven architecture, API management, data consistency solutions (e.g., SAGA pattern)
  • General experience in software development (especially Java/JEE), and CI/CD
  • 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
  • On-site work for at least 3 days/ week in our IT office in central Hamburg or Gdansk

German language expectations: We expect all international candidates to be willing to learn at least the basics of the German language in case they are accepted for the position. This will enable you to participate in social and community life in Germany and at our company premises in the best possible way.

The perfect candidate can also demonstrate some of the following:

  • Architect certification is appreciated
  • Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
  • Experience in DevOps (Jenkin, Artifactory, Maven, Gitlab/ Github)
  • Messaging (Apache Kafka)
  • Working experience or knowledge of international logistics context

What we offer:

  • Excellent career development opportunities, supported by a wide range of training and development courses
  • A trust-based and appreciative corporate culture and numerous opportunities for professional and personal development
  • Competitive remuneration (13 salaries + vacation pay) and social benefits, as well as a permanent employment contract with a financially healthy company
  • Dynamic and modern working atmosphere in a newly renovated, modern office in the heart of Hamburg's city center
  • At least 28 days of vacation, flextime, capital-forming benefits, hybrid work model
  • Subsidy for public transportation
  • Bike leasing for all positions
  • Restaurant and coffee bar
  • Health and company sports programs (e.g., yoga, sailing, fitness courses, and much more)
  • Corporate volunteering cooperation with purpozed.org

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Contact person

Dawid Bujalla Manager Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding