Architect Lead For Terminal Domain H/F CMA CGM

THE ROLE

The Architect Lead for Terminal Domain is responsible for defining, maintaining, and evolving the IT architecture for a network of maritime terminals worldwide.
You will act as the reference point for all architecture topics in the terminal domain, ensuring that local and global solutions are:
- Technically coherent
- Secure and reliable
- Cost-efficient and scalable
- Aligned with the company's overall IT and business strategy
You will lead and animate a team of enterprise, solution and technical architects, providing direction, standards, and guidance to ensure consistent architecture across all terminals.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

1. Domain Architecture & Strategy
- Define and maintain the target architecture for the container terminals domain (business, application, data, and technology layers).
- Translate business strategy, operational needs, and regulatory requirements into IT architecture roadmaps for the terminals.
- Identify and drive standardization opportunities across terminals (e.g., TOS, Gate Systems, IoT, OT/IT convergence, analytics platforms).
- Ensure alignment of domain architecture with enterprise architecture principles, cybersecurity policies, and global IT standards.
- Anticipate technology trends (cloud, edge computing, IoT, AI/analytics, 5G/private LTE, automation) and assess their relevance for terminal operations.

2. Governance & Standards
- Define and maintain architecture principles, patterns, and reference designs for terminal IT (e.g., network and connectivity patterns, integration patterns, data models, security controls).
- Establish and run architecture governance for the domain:
o Review solution designs for new projects and major changes
o Validate deviations and manage technical debt
o Ensure consistent application of standards across all terminals
- Contribute to and enforce cybersecurity, resilience, and compliance standards in collaboration with security and risk teams.

3. Team Leadership & Animation (Non-Hierarchical)
- Coordinate and animate a global community of architects (enterprise, solution and technical architects).
- Provide thought leadership and mentoring: help architects resolve complex design issues and make balanced trade-offs (cost, risk, performance, resilience).
- Organize knowledge sharing (forums, design reviews, best practices, reusable patterns).
- Lead the Terminal domain IT community and actively contribute to the Group's architect community.

4. Project & Portfolio
- Contribute to major transformation programs (e.g., TOS replacements, automation projects, OT/IT integration, cloud migrations)
o Shaping solution options and architectural scenarios
o Assessing impacts on existing systems and operations
o Providing clear architectural requirements and constraints
- Act as the architecture counterpart to project managers, product owners, and business sponsors.
- Ensure that project portfolios reflect the architecture roadmap, addressing obsolescence, risk reduction, and strategic capabilities (data, integration, automation)

5. Stakeholder Management
- Act as trusted advisor to terminal IT operations, IT Terminals Performance Leaders & Project Managers.
- Ensure regular reporting to relevant management on roadmap progress, major risks, and key architecture decisions.
- Communicate clearly on choices, risks, and tradeoffs, adapting language to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Influence internal stakeholders and external partners to support the architecture vision.

6. Risk, Resilience & Operations
- Ensure architectures support 24/7 operations, high availability, and business continuity.
- Work with infrastructure and security teams on resilience, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity by design.
- Contribute to postincident reviews and continuous improvement of performance and robustness.