Group VP – Digital Platform & Automation

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

Enterprise Architecture Governance & Standards

- Define and own the enterprise architecture vision and multi-year roadmap spanning systems, data, and security across all domains

- Establish and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures consumed by all three domain teams

- Chair the Logistics Architecture Review Board (LARB) — the governance forum for all significant technology decisions across Logistics

domains

- Act as the final authority for major architecture decisions, trade-offs, and exceptions across the entire logistics technology estate

- Approve or reject domain deviation requests from architectural standards; own the architecture governance cadence and approval rules

- Define the external integration framework — how DP World Logistics platforms connect to carriers, customs systems, and trade networks

Platform Architecture & Integration

- Define the platform-first strategy — identify capabilities built once and reused across all three domains to prevent fragmentation

- Own integration architecture standards: API design principles, event-driven patterns, async messaging, and data exchange protocols

- Maintain living reference architectures: microservices patterns, deployment topologies, scalability playbooks, and resilience patterns

- Own cloud architecture strategy (GCP, Azure, AWS) — including multi-cloud standards and cloud-native platform engineering practices

- Define Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD architecture expectations, container orchestration standards, and observability frameworks

- Track and drive remediation of platform-level technical debt across all three domains through a consolidated roadmap

Logistics Data Strategy & Data Architecture

- Own the Logistics Data Strategy — define the vision, architectural approach, and roadmap for how data flows across the logistics technology estate

- Define the data architecture: data mesh patterns, domain data ownership boundaries, and shared data platform approach