Head of Enterprise Solutions & Data Integration Architecture

Head of Enterprise Solutions & Data Integration Architecture

Role Purpose

The Head of Enterprise Solutions & Data Integration Architecture provides enterprise‑level architectural leadership for Hillebrand Gori’s global BWS forwarding business. The role ensures that business strategy, operational execution, data, and technology platforms evolve in a coherent, scalable, and compliant manner to support growth, margin protection, regulatory requirements, and customer experience.

The role combines functional people leadership , enterprise governance , and strategic technology direction , with accountability for long‑term architectural integrity across regions, products, and applications.

How will you contribute to the success of DHL and Hillebrand Gori?

Enterprise & Business‑Driven Architecture

• Lead enterprise‑wide solution architecture in direct support of the Hillebrand Gori BWS forwarding value chain , including order management, transport execution, documentation, compliance, cost management, and customer visibility.
• Ensure architecture enables global standardization with local regulatory flexibility , especially for alcohol‑specific customs, excise, and compliance requirements.
• Translate BWS business strategy, commercial models, and operational priorities into integrated, end‑to‑end architectures spanning processes, data, applications, and integrations.
• Ensure solutions support volume volatility, peak seasons, margin sensitivity, and premium service differentiation characteristic of the wine, beer, and spirits market.
• Balance time‑to‑market and operational urgency with long‑term enterprise sustainability , avoiding fragmentation across regions and brands.

Functional Leadership & Direction

• Provide functional leadership and direction to solution architects , ensuring consistent architecture quality, capability maturity, and professional development.
• Set architectural guardrails, principles, and decision frameworks for all global application product owners within Hillebrand Gori .
• Act as architectural authority and escalation point for cross‑product and cross‑region initiatives impacting enterprise data, integration, or core processes.
• Influence without direct line control, aligning regional and global product owners to enterprise priorities and standards.

Master Data, Trade & Compliance Enablement

• Own enterprise master data alignment critical to BWS forwarding, including customers, products, locations, carriers, lanes, and regulatory attributes.
• Define and enforce canonical data models and stewardship structures to ensure accurate pricing, compliant documentation, and reliable reporting .
• Ensure master data decisions support customs, excise, bonded warehousing, and trade compliance processes across geographies.
• Prevent data inconsistencies that impact invoicing accuracy, regulatory exposure, or customer trust.

Process, Data & Analytics Architecture

• Govern end‑to‑end business processes across commercial, operations, and finance domains, ensuring global consistency with controlled local variation.
• Ensure operational systems (CRM, TMS, WMS, finance, documentation solutions) feed reliable, auditable data into enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Strongly influence data warehouse and analytical design to enable margin transparency, service performance insight, and regulatory reporting .
• Align process and data design to avoid reconciliation issues between operations, billing, and finance.

Application Integration & Platform Sustainability

• Act as internal product owner for enterprise integration capabilities supporting global BWS operations.
• Define and enforce integration standards that enable real‑time visibility, partner connectivity, and scale across regions.
• Ensure integrations are secure, resilient, and compliant , supporting both DHL enterprise standards and Hillebrand Gori business needs.
• Balance regional project demands with long‑term platform sustainability and cost efficiency.

Governance, Risk & Enterprise Sustainability

• Establish and enforce solution development and architecture governance aligned with DHL standards.
• Review and approve designs to ensure alignment with enterprise principles, regulatory requirements, and security policies.
• Actively manage and reduce architectural, data, and integration debt that increases operational risk or limits growth.
• Ensure controlled evolution of systems while supporting continuous delivery and business agility.

Senior Stakeholder & Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Hillebrand Gori and DHL senior leadership, product leadership, and regional business heads.
• Facilitate alignment between commercial ambition, operational feasibility, and technology enablement .
• Constructively challenge initiatives that optimize local outcomes but compromise enterprise coherence, compliance, or scalability.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive experience in enterprise or solution architecture leadership roles within global, process‑driven organizations.
• Demonstrated capability to lead and influence senior architects and global product owners in a matrix environment.
• Strong understanding of freight forwarding operations, preferably within Beverage, Wine & Spirits or regulated logistics environments.
• Deep expertise in master data management, enterprise data architecture, and data governance.
• Proven experience with application and integration architecture in complex, distributed landscapes.
• Ability to connect technology decisions directly to commercial performance, regulatory compliance, and customer experience .
• Strong strategic mindset combined with pragmatic, delivery‑oriented decision‑making.
• Excellent communication skills with senior business, operational, and technology stakeholders.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

DHL Leadership Competency Dimensions

HEAD

• Thinks and acts at enterprise scale, making decisions that balance business growth, risk, and sustainability.
• Applies sound judgment across complex, regulated, and multi‑regional environments.

HEART

• Builds trust with business, product owners, and architects through clarity and consistency.
• Encourages collaboration across DHL and Hillebrand Gori boundaries.

GUTS

• Challenges misaligned decisions that threaten enterprise integrity, compliance, or customer trust.
• Remains resilient under operational pressure and competing priorities.

BITE

• Demonstrates determination to deliver sustainable competitive advantage for the BWS business.
• Proactively identifies opportunities to simplify, standardize, and enable scale.

Mindset – Enterprise & Business First

• Sees technology as an enabler of forwarding excellence, compliance, and premium customer service.
• Connects operational reality with long‑term enterprise vision