Job Req Number:  133220
Time Type: Full Time

Location: GBS Nanjing, China
Organization: Global IT, Air & Sea
Team: Solution Architecture & Data Engineering, Domain Architecture & Engineering
Employment type: Full-time

As a Solution Architect, you will design scalable, secure and maintainable solutions that support business objectives and align with the overall Air & Sea IT architecture. You will translate business requirements into solution designs, guide technical decisions and ensure alignment across applications, integrations, data, infrastructure and security.

You will work closely with business stakeholders, product management, engineering, service management and other architects throughout the solution lifecycle. This includes evaluating requirements, defining target architectures, supporting delivery teams and maintaining clear architecture documentation.

The initial focus of this role will be the Quotation and Pricing Platform, a strategic global capability supporting quotation and pricing processes across Air & Sea. You will take architectural ownership of the platform, guide its future development and ensure its effective integration with rate-management solutions, transport-management systems and other commercial and operational applications.

• Own and maintain the current and target architecture of the Quotation and Pricing Platform.

• Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable solution designs.

• Define solution concepts, integration patterns, data flows and non-functional requirements.

• Design and govern integrations with quotation services, rate-management solutions, transport-management systems, reporting platforms and relevant legacy applications.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements and integration standards.

• Maintain architecture documentation, including system diagrams, interface inventories, Architecture Decision Records and technical roadmaps.

• Review technical designs and provide architecture guidance to engineering and delivery teams.

• Identify technical risks, dependencies and opportunities to simplify or modernize the application landscape.

• Support release planning, platform stabilization and the transition of technical ownership into Air & Sea IT.

• Contribute to the analysis of complex incidents and recurring technical problems.

• Facilitate architecture workshops and communicate technical topics clearly to business and IT stakeholders.

• Participate in architecture governance, technology evaluations and vendor discussions.

• Contribute to other Air & Sea architecture topics based on team priorities.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems or a comparable discipline.

• At least five years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering or a comparable technical role.

• Experience designing and supporting distributed enterprise applications.

• Strong knowledge of APIs, service-oriented architecture, event-driven integration and data modelling.

• Experience with cloud-based and web-based application architectures.

• Understanding of application security, authentication, authorization, monitoring and operational support.

• Ability to define technical solutions and non-functional requirements based on business needs.

• Experience producing clear architecture documentation using methods such as UML or ArchiMate.

• Experience working with agile product and engineering teams.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills.

• Strong written and spoken English.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across European and Asian time zones.

• Experience with freight forwarding, logistics, quotation, pricing or rate-management processes.

• Experience with transport-management systems such as TANGO and CargoWise One.

• Knowledge of API management, messaging technologies or event-streaming platforms.

• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Experience with application modernization and legacy-system integration.

• Experience working in global and distributed delivery organizations.

• An architecture certification such as TOGAF or iSAQB CPSA is an advantage.

• Strong ownership and accountability.

• Pragmatic and delivery-oriented approach.

• Ability to balance strategic architecture with immediate delivery needs.

• Confidence to challenge requirements and proposed solutions constructively.

• Ability to communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Comfortable working independently within a global team and an evolving technical environment.

During the first 6 to 12 months, the Solution Architect will focus on:

• Establishing a complete understanding of the existing platform and integration landscape.

• Supporting the transition of technical ownership into Air & Sea IT.

• Defining the target architecture and technical roadmap.

• Improving architecture documentation and decision governance.

• Identifying technical risks, dependencies, operational gaps and technical debt.

• Clarifying responsibilities between the quotation platform, rate-management solutions and transport-management systems.

• Supporting platform stabilization, rollout and future integration planning.

DSV – Global transport and logistics

What moves you?

At DSV, we move more than goods. We move careers, ambitions and opportunities.

With close to 150,000 colleagues in over 90 countries, we are the global leader in transport and logistics, and it is our people who bring our services and solutions to life every day. From frontline operations to business functions, every role contributes to keeping supply chains flowing and societies running.

Here, you are trusted to take ownership, act on your ideas and make decisions that create real impact. It is a place where people, careers and ideas keep moving forward. We value transparency in how we communicate and collaborate, and we win together by supporting each other, challenging each other and delivering results as a team.

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This is our promise of movement. A promise that your work matters, your contribution counts, and your career can move as far as your ambition takes it.

If you are looking to make an impact, grow your career and be part of something bigger, DSV is the place to be.

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