Opportunity

Lead Infrastructure Architect

Description

Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our business, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network. From the farm to your refrigerator, or the factory to your wardrobe, we are developing solutions in-house that meet customer needs across the whole Supply Chain E2E. Joining Maersk you will join a global leader in Container Logistics as we embark on an industry-defining digital transformation that will revolutionize trade.
You’ll play a vital part in our success, helping us re-think what technology can do by using the latest technologies, and building the experience to advance your career. If you are passionate about working in an entrepreneurial environment supporting an ambitious, culturally diverse team of 3000 People within Maersk Technology – on a great transformation journey – then apply today!

The role of the Lead Infrastructure Architect

As a Lead Infrastructure Architect within our Technology Services Engineering Team, you will be a key driver and doer in a fundamental shift in how we architect and host our application estate to ensure that we can take our platform operating model to the next level. You will be an advocate to enable a composable technology foundation which will enable our Product development teams in building our digital foundation of the future to help delivering for our global customer base.

Your focus will be on both assisting in the ideation and realisation of what our next generation platform will encompass, as well as then helping our Product teams in implementing products that are aligned to this long-term Platform vision.

To realise Maersk’s “One Customer Journey”, a consistent and resilient platform is essential. You will be key in helping promote ‘the right way’ in how we utilise technology in delivering on this promise.

To help to make our next generation platform successful, we are looking for key individuals to join our Technology Services Engineering team to help shape this vision and be pivotal in transforming how we do business with customers and vendors.

As a Lead Infrastructure Architect, you will demonstrate the following characteristics: -

• You are recognized as an architect authority and leader
• You have extensive practical experience gained from working as an engineer and typically answer directly to the senior management of your company.
• Leadership skills and communication skills are crucial in your work. You can work in a matrix organization and is comfortable to influence without authority
• You have proven background designing and delivering complex, high performance, highly available solutions at scale.
• You work across the organisation's multiple business units in a transversal manner, taking into account technical needs and non-functional requirements to produce clear technical designs
• You are creative and come up with innovative approaches to projects and any issues that arise.
• You are a “do’er”. You get things done.
• You drive strategic thinking and how to apply it to the work you are doing
• Setting goals and implementing them.
• Motivating staff and fostering collaboration
• Able to create a followship and be comfortable with presenting at any level of the organisation to CxO level.

Currently the tech stack is not 100% fixed but we have a strong preference for commercial experience of opensource plus cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will have a background that spans development, architecture, and operations. We are looking for full stack engineers with preference for staff that can provide expert coverage over three primary areas, plus some ability across all areas.

• DevOps – Github, Terraform
• Backend – Python, CLI, RESTful API, process orchestration/choreography
• Datastores – SQL and NOSQL (key-value, document, graph, timeseries) – both Commercial and Open Source Products
• Virtualization – KVM, AHV, Vmware
• Operational System – RHEL, Windows
• Domain driven design experience and understand how to create composable microservices and API’s

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership at Maersk within the engineering community
• Establish technical standards and drive Maersk’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies.
• Work on our hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs and help drive our platform vision forward
• Lead, develop and mentor the engineering feature teams to deliver our scalable, cloud-based, next-generation platform
• As a key member of the engineering and architecture leadership, you will help set and meet aggressive goals by working with customers and other leaders and to help shape our long-term technical strategy.
• You will be a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad. You are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
• Defines and owns high level architecture designs and technology roadmap with the associated release goals. Defines and develops POCs for new and upcoming strategic technology solutions.
• Evaluating internal functions, IT systems, and IT processes and suggesting improvements.
• Providing ideas to reduce overall TCO in IT and processes.
• Working closely with other architects in the creation of IT architecture models to help fulfil the organisation's mission and vision.
• Preparing As-Is, To Be, gap analysis, SWOTs, charts, diagrams, and tables that depict the present and proposed systems in terms of IT costs, benefits derived, and tasks accomplished.
• Overseeing project implementation to prevent deviations.
• Evaluating systems engineering, talent recruiting, and accounting models for discrepancies and vulnerabilities.
• Suggesting relevant training to improve IT staff knowledge and skills, taking into account growth and IT roadmap.
• Conducting research in talent management to improve the organization's business operations.
• Determining and implementing build versus buy strategies, mentor personnel, and views of the overall business strategy.
• Researching emerging trends and ideas.
• Defines team wide engineering best practices and mechanisms to measure the adoption.
• Drives technical architecture conversations with the prospective clients.
• Coaches, develops and mentors engineers and be a member of the hiring panel.
• Be the face and voice of Maersk, help drive followship and lead representation of Maersk in external technology events and conferences.

Key Skills

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering
• 15+ years of experience of engineering experience at scale
• Strong analytical and design skills
• Proficiency in multi-process architecture, design patterns and tools
• Demonstrable experience of working in a complex IT environment with a clear service architecture & design skillset
• Extensive experience of agile delivery approaches including delivery of agile at scale (e.g. SAFe) and associated ways of working
• Extensive knowledge of services architecture & design principles, challenges, and best practices including appropriately qualified in enterprise or services architecture practices (TOGAF, Archimate or similar).
• Detailed understanding of the approach and process required to successfully introduce new and changed services into an enterprise operations function.
• Extensive understanding of the technology and business services expected to be provided across an enterprise operations function.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure and Virtualization
• Extensive knowledge in Private and Public Cloud, as well as ability to lead Workload Placement Strategy
• Desired expertise in Database, Networking and Middleware
• Detailed understanding of how operational services can be managed effectively.
• Understanding of multiple different IT environments and how complex Services are architected to support them.
• Versatile understanding of IT fields outside their realm of expertise.
• Technical Certifications, such as VCP (+); NCP (+), are a plus.
• Advanced Python programming
• Proven knowledge of Restful API design patterns
• Extensive experience in working in Public (Google / Azure) and Private Cloud.
• Strong understanding of microservice and mini-services based architectures and how to achieve composability
• Experience in helping leading development lifecycle process, best practices and operating distributed cloud-based micro services
• Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic
• Broad knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, networking, and software development best practices.
• Experience of designing systems or components on large projects
• Experience of working with offshore teams
• Passionate about learning new tools, languages, philosophies, and workflows

Having substantial operations in over 130 countries, we work across continents, across cultures and with individuals from all walks of life. This drives our ambition, to create equitable and inclusive workplaces where every individual can have a sense of belonging. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, race, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, parental or caring status, religion or belief, physical or mental disability, long term health condition, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. We actively work to address systemic bias and support representation. We therefore encourage all to apply and let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for your recruitment process. Learn more at: https://www.maersk.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion.