Senior Enterprise Architect

In this role as Senior Enterprise Architect, you will help define and shape the future architecture of one of the world’s largest logistics companies. You connect data, platforms, and people across borders, enabling DSV to operate as a single, integrated global enterprise.

At DSV, your work goes beyond technology – you influence how we scale, integrate, and transform.

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About the role

Following the acquisition of DB Schenker, DSV is evolving into the world’s largest logistics and freight forwarding company. You will support this transformation by guiding cross-domain decisions, aligning platform capabilities, and ensuring our enterprise data platform evolves to support scalable, integrated operations across the business.

You will join our Enterprise Architecture Enablement Solutions team. The team focuses on enabling early-stage ideas – working from ideation and business sparring through to assessment, direction setting, and implementation.

Anchored in Global IT, you will be working on some of the most transformative digital initiatives in DSV, enabling the company to operate as one digital enterprise by connecting data, intelligence, and workflows across divisions, systems, customers, and geographies.

We have a clearly defined Data vision. Our future-ready IT Platform helps accelerate productivity. This leverages our scalable foundation. We have disciplined standardisation and consolidation, increased digitalisation and connectivity, and a game-changing Enterprise Data Platform.

You will have a clear mandate to set the direction and play a key role in shaping DSV's future architectures in collaboration with other IT functions and our business verticals.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Set and drive enterprise architecture strategy across data, platforms, and enabling technologies, ensuring alignment with business goals

• Shape and evolve enterprise data architecture, including governance, models, integration, and lifecycle management

• Guide cross-domain decisions and system integration to enable scalable, standardised, and interoperable solutions

• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture and drive data-driven capabilities across analytics and decision-making

• Establish and promote standards, best practices, and compliance frameworks for data management, security, and regulatory requirements

• Provide technical leadership by mentoring architects, evaluating emerging technologies, and helping ensure DSV remains at the forefront of innovation

Your workplace will be in our modern headquarters located in Hedehusene, near Copenhagen.

What you bring:

• Experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or senior solution architecture roles, ideally in complex or global environments

• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, including governance, lifecycle management, MDM, and data quality frameworks

• Knowledge of relevant infrastructure and technologies such as containerisation, MongoDB Atlas, relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL), and Kafka

• Experience working with modern data platforms and cloud ecosystems (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, data lakes, integration tools)

• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman) and their practical application

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, communicate complex topics clearly, and drive strategic decisions

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking, with a focus on innovation, scalability, and data-driven decision-making
  

Nice to have:

• Certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or similar

• Experience from transport and logistics or large-scale transformations
  

What you gain

• A key role in shaping one of the largest logistics transformations globally

• Direct influence on enterprise architecture at scale

• Exposure to complex, global platforms and data landscapes

• Opportunities to grow across functions and geographies

• A global, collaborative environment where your contribution helps keep the world moving

Our interview process

• Online Screening Interview with our recruitment partner, Christian Payne (45 minutes)

• On-site Technical Interview with the hiring team. We don't use a case – instead, we focus on discussing architecture. (1hr 30 minutes)

• On-site Final Interview, including personality assessment feedback. (1hr 30 minutes)

Ready to shape the future of global logistics?

Apply today – we will review your application and get back to you within a week.

Note: This recruitment process is being handled by our recruitment partner, Payne Talent.