Description The Hapag-Lloyd "Freight Information System” - FIS is the backbone of our shipping business and represents the benchmark in our industry. The global structure of transport logistics and time critical process flows comes with challenging requirements. FIS is continuously further developed by >750 internal and external developers and is currently in transition shift from on-prem to cloud. Come on board and drive the fit-for-purpose holistic architecture during and beyond this transformation. Thus, the FIS Transformation Architect (m/f/d) is 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 As a “FIS Transformation Architect (m/f/d)”, you design, lead and facilitate the target architecture and architectural migration path of our core Freight Information System (FIS) from a major monolithic solution towards decoupled self-contained systems. Being part of the FIS EA team, you support multiple developer teams in following that path, identifying bounded contexts, conceptualizing evolutionary migration steps, and proactive driving architectural issues. You take responsibility for an effective integration architecture, a holistic data view and profound stable communication mechanisms. You are responsible for leading the evolvement and governance of the FIS architecture to be followed by >750 FIS developers and >60 FIS teams. You, you operate at the enterprise architecture level while having a significant impact on solution architecture. The FIS Transformation Architect (m/f/d) is a versatile professional who thrives in collaborating with the platform team to establish the technological foundation, the transformation program office, and multiple development teams. You will work across several projects simultaneously, facilitating connections and promoting architectural knowledge exchange throughout the organization. Detailing and driving the evolutionary migration path towards decoupled self-contained systems, thus taking accountability for transformation into fit-for-purpose target architecture Driving the migration path from mainframe to cloud and architecturally leading the mainframe shutdown path Serving the transformation program office in migration strategy development and governance and architecturally designing the migration roadmap Advising our development teams on the architectural design and migration of solutions Continuous further architecting and developing the architectural standards, guidelines, and guardrails and ensuring communication and adherence to it Elaborating and implementing solution options for architectural requirements Advising our development teams on the architectural design and migration of solutions Playing a key role in collaboration, communication, alignment with and support of solution architects and management stakeholders to get buy-in of transformation architecture Qualifications Deep knowledge and interest in architectural design of major software solutions as distributed systems and microservice architecture Hands-on experience in architecturally leading major system migrations and transformation initiatives Experience in complex projects and Enterprise Architecture work as well as data flow architecture and transformation planning methodology; experience with LeanIX is a plus Deep knowledge in domain-driven design, integration architectures, event driven architecture, API management, data consistency solutions Senior expertise in taking responsibility for a holistic huge system target architecture and roadmap in both, design and adherence to it Architect certification is a plus General experience in software development (especially Java/ JEE), and CI/CD Completed studies in computer science or comparable Strong communication skills, a sense of self-responsibility, and the ability to work collaboratively as a team player, serving as a bridge between diverse IT teams and business stakeholders in a complex system landscape Strong passion for sharing knowledge and advocating architectural decisions Very good command of written and spoken English On-site work for at least 3 days/ week in our IT office in central Hamburg