MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is a global leader in the shipping and logistics sector. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, MSC is a privately-owned organization driven by the Aponte family. Evolving from a one vessel operation, today MSC is a globally respected business with a fleet of 730 vessels and more than 150,000 staff. With an international integrated Network of road, rail, and sea transport resources - the company prides itself on delivering global Service with local knowledge. Represented in 155 countries, MSC ensures that shippers can talk directly to our representatives, as well as using a variety of e-business solutions for digitalized cargo bookings. Responding to the needs of our customers, MSC is a major driving force behind the evolution of smart containers in our industry, helping to set the standards for digital shipping. The Global Information Technology (IT) Department of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is actively working on rationalizing and streamlining the diverse technological landscape within the Group. This ongoing initiative bears many aspects and lead to many projects mobilizing the overall workforce of the company. Product Architect: The Product Architect will work very closely with Enterprise Architecture, product teams, specialists, and all the transversal teams, like security and infrastructure. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The Product Architect is responsible for the assigned scope, expected he/she take ownership and leadership. He/She does not directly manage a team. However, this person will collaborate with many teams located in Switzerland, Italy, India, Belgium, US. This person will have to: Verify and contribute to the OneVision architecture standards and guidelines for the product design and development Teach and control Product Teams to follow the rules provided in these guidelines Identify, design, and drive the implementation of shared technical components Perform business case assessments and drive the implementation of applicable proofs of concepts Help Architecture Team, Product Teams and any other team involved on a common initiative to make the right choices Communicate with stakeholders using clear and concise language Report to the Manager Product Architecture, follow up on next steps, arbitrate on priorities Guarantee Application Performance, scalability, and security Ensure that each technical component can be replaced easily in the future when obsolete or no longer aligned with MSC’s objectives Anticipate and manage risks for each topic Provide reporting and supporting documents in time to the Program Management, Product teams or EA Team. Transfer of skills within Architects Team and Developers Stay tuned with technology updates relevant to OneVision context Advise, promote, coach, coordinate the use of these tools Ensure that all Projects and Applications effectively use technical components as per the validated Technical Architecture Design Applications performance (response time and availability) will be paramount to the success of the Program. Thus, he/she is to propose and lead the setup of a specific governance model to ensure that the right emphasis and focus is given to performance related topic. Build technical components user guides for the Project Teams Contribute to the training material and processes documentation Promoting and adopting a pragmatic approach Tolerance of ambiguity Organization and planning Curious and willing to learn. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE (P) Preferred, (R) Required General: Experience on Enterprise grade software development Methodic and with special attention to detail and quality Software, Processes, and data minded Didactical in sharing/teaching best practices. Technical: Solid experience implementing systems integration Detailed oriented with strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills Solid database knowledge beyond ORM usage and experience working on systems handling large amounts of data Solid Experience with testing practices and tooling Experience with event-driven or/and event-sourcing Experience delivering to at least one Cloud provider (Azure preferred) Fluency in English (oral and written)