Applications Architect

Overview

CHAMP Cargosystems provides the most comprehensive range of integrated IT solutions and distribution services for the air cargo transport chain. Our portfolio spans core management systems, messaging services, and eCargo solutions. These include applications designed to meet customs and security requirements, quality optimization, as well as e-freight and mobility needs. Our products and services are recognized globally under the Cargospot and Traxon brands.

We serve over 200 airlines and GSAs, connecting them with approximately 3,000 forwarders and GHAs worldwide. Our solutions help customers, and their clients, adapt to the critical and ongoing changes in air transport logistics and meet the demands of global trade.

Headquartered in Luxembourg, CHAMP Cargosystems operates offices in UK, Zurich, Frankfurt, Manila, Singapore, and Atlanta.

We are looking for an Applications Architect to join our team.

The role will be reporting to VP Architecture

Responsibilities :

The job holder is in general accountable for the accomplishment of the following tasks & responsibilities:

• Provide or enhance technical roadmap of assigned technology product offering

• Work with leads to ensure teams are respecting the agreed design

• Must be able to learn and understand key cargo business process

• Understand industry standards especially on electronic data interchange (EDI) requirements or features

• Understand the CHAMP product, its design and architecture layers

• Understand and envision product strategic direction

• Design of new CHAMP products

• Continuously improve existing CHAMP products

• Take responsibility for technical solution in all layers (UI, Services, Interfaces, Data, and security)

• Ensure that CHAMP products will integrate with each other in a coherent manner

• Identify common features across different products that can be extracted to become shared service or an orchestrated micro services

• • Collaborate with Data Architects to catalog database or data structure being used in CHAMP products

• Ensure coherent data structure design supporting functional requirements

• Provide consultancy and support to product management during customer engagement and sales activities

• Prioritize and align technical developments with functional developments

• Collaborates closely with IT to align with infrastructure design, sizing and provisioning to ensure non-functional requirements are carefully reviewed and realistic

• Conduct product architecture presentation to customers and potential development partners

• Research constantly on technology and map potential areas of application in CHAMP context and strategic direction

• Ensure that future products acquired by CHAMP are properly assessed so that its business and technical value is worth the investment

• Wear multiple hats

• As a software architect and developer on the most complex element of CHAMP product

• As a technical evangelist ensuring that customers and product management

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Expert-level Java (8–17+): streams, concurrency, functional programming

• JVM performance tuning, memory management, garbage collectors

• Spring Boot (microservices, auto-config, starters)

• Spring Cloud (Config Server, Eureka/Discovery, Gateway, LoadBalancer, Sleuth/Observability)

• Spring Security / OAuth2 / Keycloak

• Spring Data + MongoDB (repositories, aggregation pipelines, schema design)

• Domain-Driven Design (DDD): entities, value objects, aggregates, bounded contexts

• API design: REST, OpenAPI/Swagger

• Event-driven architecture (Kafka or similar)

• Angular 13+ fundamentals: modules, components, services

• UI/UX integration, build & deployment optimization

• API integration and security (JWT, OAuth2 flows)

• MongoDB schema design for microservices

• MongoDB Aggregation pipelines & indexing strategies

• MongoDB Performance tuning and scaling (replica sets, sharding)

• Devops Containerization: Docker best practices

• Devops Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, or on-prem)

• Devops CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.)

• API gateways (Apigee, Spring Cloud Gateway)

Education and Experience :

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, IT Engineering or similar

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking, ideally in a Consulting/ Architecture position within a software and/or services company

• Extensive work experience within a Solutions Architect/ Application Architect role

• Proven ability to use tools and elaborate ideas and design using industry standard diagrams

• Can communicate with confidence and handle difficult questions that customers may raise

• Can think and make system design/proposals on the need to do basis (Just In Time and Just Enough)

The selected candidate may be subject to the provision of an up-to-date (not older than 3 months) criminal record certificate.

Security: the successful candidate will have to comply with CHAMP Security Requirements (including but not limited to CHAMP’s IT Security Policies, especially the ISMS Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy, mandatory courses, confidentiality and data protection, use of company assets, and incident reporting).

CHAMP Cargosystems is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, ethnic background, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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