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Our People! We know each employee’s individual contributions make us the #1 Express Delivery and Logistics Company in the world.\nDHL Express is committed to maintaining an environment that empowers every team member to make the greatest possible impact on our business. Our corporate culture is about personal commitment - to our business, to each other and to our global communities. DHL is dedicated to being a great place to work. Start YOUR career with DHL today…\nRole Purpose:\nAt DHL Express, technology connects people and enables global trade. We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect who can establish architectural coherence, set enterprise technology direction, and foster high-performing architecture capabilities across Global Business IT and ensure our technology roadmap balances immediate operational resilience and multi-year business growth.\nIn this role, you will lead the Enterprise Architecture practice, own the Express-level Enterprise Architecture Roadmap and align domain-level roadmaps into a unified global view that drives cross-domain coherence across all platforms and business functions. You will establish policies, golden rules, standards, patterns, and principles that are findable, current, and independently usable by Solution Architects and delivery teams\nThis is a senior leadership position within the IT Architecture job family. It combines enterprise-scale strategic thinking with pragmatic governance, architecture capability development, and hands-on facilitation of complex cross-domain decisions. 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