Principal Architect

**SUMMARY**

Begin your career with DHL IT Services

We are seeking for an experienced Principal Architect to join our team You are the expert in your field. You will investigate, analyse and record all or part of a business (functions, processes, information, systems, engineering, technical tool/processes, hardware environments, performance and security) in a systematic approach.

You are required to manage architecture-related communication inside IT Services and outside DP DHL. You will design and develop integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. You need to take account of relevant architectures, strategies and policies. You will be managing the staff priorities, assignments, practices and objectives of the architecture (discipline) team.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Work with people responsible for architectural communication in all regions of IT Services and in DP DHL Business divisions
- Communicate effectively all important news to the architectural community
- Develop communication strategies with the aim to improve the effectiveness of communication to the architecture community at IT Services and Business IT
- Lead definition, initiation and design of architecture in projects/ programs and coordinate collaboration with external service providers in terms of assembling own or third-party system components
- Document work using the required standards, methods and tools
- May oversee the completion of projects and may contribute to employees’ professional development
- Act as technical lead of development teams on issues of performance, tools, and standards for Snowflake and Teradata platforms.
- Analyze Snowflake metadata to identify performance and cost issues and recommend remedial action.
- Use the Snowflake Data Security Framework to balance the often-conflicting of protecting sensitive data while democratizing access and facilitating sharing.
- Examine the trade offs associated with the available environment and Snowflake Account deployment options.
- Teradata platform health check (VP, DBQL, RESUSAGE, PBI dashboard, trend analysis)
- Teradata Workload Management review and provide improvements to DBA team (workload monitor, workload designer review of throttles/priorities/classifications/unclassified workloads)
- Teradata onboarding checklist reviews and follow ups with product teams
- Teradata platform inefficiencies per product based on standard test cases - identify set of test cases to continually monitor and flag back to product teams
- Teradata new features POC and testing and KT to broader audience
- Teradata reverse engineer/debugging of errors in PROD - help product teams from COE Teradata architecture review of build/design - advocate best practices
- Teradata PST runs - help profile results, tweak PDM, make use of new feature

**WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE**
- Minimum 5 years in Snowflake Development & Administration and/or 10 years experience in Teradata Performance tuning and workload management
- 6 years experience in Business Performance and Analysis (problem solving skills)
- 5 years experience in a relevant technical discipline
- 4 years experience in leadership
- Experience in software engineering with relevant qualifications in IT field and methods including formal methods (e.g. Prince 2)
- Experience in Business, Data, Technical Architecture and leveraging tools
- Inquisitive and analytical mind
- Proven ability to manage non-direct reports to achieve results and to work in a multi-cultural multi-functional environment where consensus is critical for success
- Customer and end-user focused and have excellent oral and written communications skills
- Knowledge or experience in Matillion and Erwin is highly desirable

**WHAT YOU WILL GET FROM US**
- Great Team of IT Professionals with Global Working Exposure
- Flexible Benefits - Customized According to Individual Needs
- On-Going Professional and Technical Training and Certifications
- A Multicultural Environment in Modern Offices
- Choose Any Day for Your Vacation From Earned Public Holiday (Saturday and Ad Hoc)
- Smart Casual Everyday
- Global Internal Job Opportunities Available Within DHL Group
- Unlimited Outpatient Medical
- Home Office Possibilities

**ABOUT US - DHL IT Services**

IT Services is the internal provider of specialized IT Build services and industrialized IT Run services to DHL Group:

- Runs more than 7700 servers;
- Processes 9 million shipment information messages per day;

Apart from being more than 5,000 highly skilled IT professionals with an intimate knowledge of logistics industry, we at IT Services altogether represent more than 80 nationalities. IT Services is working behind the scenes 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year in the data centers and offices across three continents - Americas (Mechanicsburg, Westerville, Tempe in USA and Mexico, Costa Rica and Brazil), Europe (Prague in Czech Republic; Bonn, Berlin and Darmstadt in Germany) and Asia (Cyberjaya in Malaysia a