Senior Enterprise Architect
DHL · Singapore
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Role Purpose:
At DHL Express, technology connects people and enables global trade. We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect who can establish architectural coherence, set enterprise technology direction, and foster high-performing architecture capabilities across Global Business IT and ensure our technology roadmap balances immediate operational resilience and multi-year business growth.
In this role, you will lead the Enterprise Architecture practice, own the Express-level Enterprise Architecture Roadmap and align domain-level roadmaps into a unified global view that drives cross-domain coherence across all platforms and business functions. You will establish policies, golden rules, standards, patterns, and principles that are findable, current, and independently usable by Solution Architects and delivery teams
This is a senior leadership position within the IT Architecture job family. It combines enterprise-scale strategic thinking with pragmatic governance, architecture capability development, and hands-on facilitation of complex cross-domain decisions. The role balances immediate operational resilience with multi-year modernization and business growth.
Location: Singapore, Prague or Cyberjaya, Malaysia.
How will you contribute to the success of DHL?
Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Roadmap
Define the multi-year Enterprise Architecture strategy and maintain an integrated roadmap that translates business objectives into strategic technology runway while balancing short-term operational priorities with long-term modernization.
Architecture Governance and Decision Rights
Chair the Enterprise Architecture Review Board (EARB), establish clear agendas, evaluating cross-domain and enterprise submissions, and recording binding architectural outcomes and escalations.
Practice Leadership and Capability Development
- Lead and develop the Enterprise Architecture practice by coaching Domain Enterprise Architects, strengthening collaboration, and improving architecture methods, tools, and literacy.
- Drive capability development across the EA practice, ensuring architects operate at the strategic landscape level and delegate detailed solution design cleanly to Solution Architects.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
Collaborate with specialist architecture and governance functions (including Information Security, Data Architecture, Cloud/Infrastructure, and Compliance) to embed their guardrails seamlessly into the central repository.
Do you have what it takes?
- University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 10 years of multi-disciplined IT experience, including substantial experience as a Principal, Lead, or Senior Enterprise Architect in a complex, global, and highly distributed enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated success in establishing or leading an Enterprise Architecture practice, defining target operating models, and scaling architecture governance across diverse teams.
- Proven experience developing enterprise-wide roadmaps and leading multi-year modernization, cloud, or platform transformation programs.
- Deep knowledge of Enterprise Architecture practices and tools, including current-state modelling, C4 modelling, architecture decision records, policies, standards, principles, and guardrails. Experience with LeanIX is desirable.
- Broad technology expertise across distributed and event-driven systems, REST and messaging integration, cloud-native platforms, secure data architectures, and infrastructure modernization.
- Strong understanding of agile software delivery and SAFe, solution design boundaries, API-first integration, and event-led decoupling strategies.
- Ability to translate complex technical trade-offs, technology risks, and technical debt into clear, outcome-focused business implications.
- Executive-level stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and build consensus around strategic trade-offs.
- Proven ability to chair architecture governance forums, resolve disputes, and drive clear, accountable decisions.
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
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