Lead Platform Architect

Job Description

APM Terminals

Maersk is achieving an unprecedented transformation in the growth of our businesses, rethinking the way we engage with customers and partners, and how the world’s trade flows across our global network.

We are offering you a unique opportunity to help redefine our asset management solutions covering assets across our terminals. You will play a key role in defining, designing, and developing an industry-leading asset management eco-system, improving our asset life cycle from acquisition to disposal.

A.P. Moller - Maersk is an integrated container logistics company and member of the A.P. Moller Group. Connecting and simplifying trade to help our customers grow and thrive. With a dedicated team of over 80,000, operating in 130 countries; we go all the way to enable global trade for a growing world.

We are currently looking for a Lead Platform Architect – APMT Business Enabling Platform to join our team

We Offer

An exciting and attractive career in an ambitious and competitive environment with the possibility of continuous professional and personal development. Maersk Technology offers a fast paced, challenging and truly international atmosphere with activities across every major continent in the world. The environment is dynamic with focus on high performance, results, and respect for our employees.

We focus on our people, and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterized by change and continuous progress.

Maersk is a highly international and inspiring environment with an attractive value proposition for its employees. As part of ensuring a successful work-life balance we promote flexible workhours and the possibility to work from home when convenient.

As Lead Platform Architect, you will be actively managing standards and coaching engineering teams to modernize, integrate, deploy, operate, and maintain our platform capabilities. These mission critical capabilities will be deployed globally in our industrial facilities and vessels forming our global supply chain.

This is a leadership and “hands on” role, you will draw from your deep and broad technical expertise to mentor coach and develop the skills and capabilities of our engineers, completing hands-on technical work and resolving complex issues and challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining, improving and road mapping the architecture and designs for our APMT – Business enabling platform covering Sales & Commercial, Finance, Procurement, Digital Asset Management and safety Platform and associated products services and solutions.

• Responsible for defining architectural descriptions and design artefacts ensuring they are maintained, usable and meet stakeholder concerns. With particular attention to the architectural descriptions and business analysis within the context of commercial, finance, procurement and asset management domains.

• Responsible for providing architectural leadership to the team to ensure compliance and adherence of team outputs to the defined architecture specifications, requirements, and industry best practices in a timely manner.
  
• Responsible for guidance and resolution of technical issues and challenges faced by engineering teams in the implementation of the business enabling platform and associated services and solution architectures.
  
• Work with the business units, customers, technology partners, automation providers, equipment providers, senior engineering managers, product owners, scrum masters, frontline colleagues and scrum teams to support solution, design, architecture, release and sprint planning for the enabling platform.

• Work closely with business stakeholders on regular basis to bridge the gap between technology and business.

• Actively drive the career growth of engineers and team members by defining technical skills and technical training within the area of your architectural scope.
  
• Actively attract world class talent and provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
  
• Represent Maersk on key industry standards forums and work with the team to publish research and represent Maersk at industry and technology standards bodies and forums.

We are looking for

• A total of 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years of experience in architecting and/or developing and delivering an end-to-end business functions (such as commercial, finance, procurement and/or Asset management) and Integration Platform.

• Define architecture standards enabling end-to-end commercial processes, from customer acquisition and contract negotiation through service delivery, invoicing, and financial settlement.

• Lead the architecture and evolution of AI-enabled business platforms, including the design and integration of Agentic AI capabilities to automate and augment commercial, financial, and operational decision-making.

• Architect scalable platforms supporting multi-agent orchestration, AI-driven workflows, and integration with enterprise data and transaction systems.

• Establish standards for responsible AI, governance, security, and lifecycle management of AI agents across the enterprise technology ecosystem

• Significant Experience in architecting and defining standards for asset life cycle integration including for information definition, data transformation, data validation, exchange patterns. Including the use of traditional and modern API Restful approaches for integration.

• Experience in model driven architecture developing physical and logical architectures for infrastructure with an industrial focus. Experience defining enterprise data architecture and governance for asset master data across engineering, maintenance, and operational systems.

• Experience in the application of Architecture Management Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, SABSA etc)

• Experience in the application Cyber Security Controls and Mitigations in architectural designs and Application of security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SABSA, COBIT, ISA-99/ISO 62443 and or NIST.

• Is familiar with the planning, estimating and execution of programmes of development work to time, budget and quality targets. The identification of the resources needed for development and how this will be met with an effective supply capacity. The alignment of development activity and deliverables with agreed architectures and standards.

• Is familiar with agile principles and values, e.g., the Agile Manifesto. Has practical experience in software development with agile methods, e.g., Scrum or Kanban with an infrastructure as code bias.

• Is familiar with identifying new and emerging technologies, products, services, methods, and techniques. Can assess their relevance and the potential impacts (both threats and opportunities) upon business enablers, cost, performance, or sustainability. Can communicate emerging technologies and their impact.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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