STARK Group IT is looking for a Domain Architect - Supply Chain Management

Are you passionate about building digital products and want to be a part of a fast-moving and transforming organisation? Are you excited about impacting and improving our Supply Chain Management Capabilities across the Group? Then you might be our next Domain Architect!

Welcome to STARK Group IT
When joining Group IT, you will join a digital transformation journey as we replace our legacy monoliths and transition towards a modular and flexible integrated setup. Group IT, a dynamic and rapidly evolving part of STARK Group, delivers groupwide business-critical IT solutions. We strive to modernise and reimagine the IT landscape to ensure both scalability and composability to meet existing and future business needs, and we would like your help to rethink how things are done in our industry to offer our customers a superior experience.

What You Will Do
We are seeking a Domain Architect to support strategic initiatives to improve our Logistics and Supply Chain capabilities.

The Domain Architect's role is to provide architectural leadership to enable the effective governance, planning, implementation, and use of digital technology within the supply chain domain. The Domain Architect drives alignment based on STARK Group Architecture principles, domain roadmaps, and Business and IT Strategy. This role is essential for ensuring that the IT architecture is composed effectively to support various systems, including Supply Chain Planning, Warehouse Management, Transport Management, and Order Management.

In your role, you will work closely with our Enterprise Architects, Product Owners, and Business Process Owners to ensure that the supply chain architecture is well integrated within each product in the domain and aligns with the enterprise architecture and the architecture of other domains. Additionally, you will work closely with relevant software vendors in the supply chain space.

In your daily work, you will apply a best practice framework to align IT services with the business's needs to ensure a flexible and incremental approach to product development. You are expected to shape the system architecture to support the STARK organisation and use creative thinking to identify how business capabilities and processes can be reshaped to support better the scalability and efficiency of implementing digital products.

Some Of Your Key Activities Will Be To

• Lead the high-level solution design within the Supply Chain domain, ensuring they are scalable, flexible, and aligned with the overall IT architecture strategy.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the Supply Chain domain, including industry best practices, emerging trends, and specific business processes related to Supply Chain Planning, Warehouse Management, Transport Management, and Order Management.
• Analyse the existing IT architecture landscape and identify opportunities for composable architecture within the Supply Chain domain, ensuring seamless integration between systems like Supply Planning, Warehouse Management, Transport Management, and Order Management.
• Apply SAFe principles and practices to ensure that the architecture and solutions support Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and contribute to the overall value stream.
• Ensure that the Supply Chain architecture adheres to relevant compliance standards, data privacy regulations, and security requirements.

What You Bring
As our future colleague, you have some years of experience as an Enterprise Architect or Supply Chain domain Architect, focusing on supply chain systems. You have a passion for architectural modelling and design tools (e.g. Enterprise Architect, ArchiMate), and you enjoy working with and have an in-depth knowledge of the Agile methodologies. As a Supply Chain Domain Architect, you probably also bring the following capabilities and experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in Supply Chain processes and technologies, including Supply Planning, Warehouse Management, Transport Management, and Order Management.
• Proven Record of Supply Chain Domain Design, based on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., SAFe Scaled Agilist, TOGAF) are a plus.
• Workplace is in Denmark, Aarhus or Frederiksberg area
• Expected travel is approx. 15 days a year.

Want to know more and apply?
We will happily answer any questions regarding the position and your options in STARK Group. You are welcome to contact Kim Christensen, email: [email protected] or +4540603069, for any specific questions regarding the role.

STARK Group
STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a strong legacy. STARK Group was first established in Denmark in 1896 and has today evolved into a leading European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials with net sales of approx. EUR 9 billion. With a dedicated team of more than 20,000 employees and +1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK, we live and breathe to serve professional craftsmen with heavy building materials all the way from the Austrian Alps to Tromsø, close to the Arctic circle and everywhere in between. STARK Group is committed to reach net zero emissions by 2050 across the entire business, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and works within fully 2030 validated science-based targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C

At STARK Group IT, we believe in the richness diversity brings. We invite individual of all backgrounds to join us in creating and enclusive and welcoming environment. We believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their authintic selves to work.

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Location: Frederiksberg (Head Office)

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