Architect - IT

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an IT-architect to lead the architectural work within the Marketing area. You will work in an environment where fast pace and constant change is as important as a stable ability to produce marketing material for a global audience.

The marketing solutions are often related to the E-commerce solutions as well as the physical stores, which makes cooperation with other areas within the customer and external suppliers crucial.

As area architect you will work close to the delivery lead and take part in decision making and in developing the organization. You will also take part in and/or run pre studies, project governance, documentation and modelling. In order to succeed you need to be a leader with ability to delegate and work through your organization.

The position is based in Stockholm, Sweden, but some travel within Sweden is to be expected.

WORK TASK

Build business and IT knowledge.
Build relationship with business stakeholders, IT stakeholders and suppliers
Lead and/or take part in pre studies and architectural work within the area, together with the customers inhouse teams and external suppliers
Analyze, design and coordinate architectural work within the area and cooperate with system architects to help assure that we are moving in the right direction on all architectural levels
Take part in enterprise architectural work
Work with project governance for architectural aspects of projects within the area.
Support decision making
Collaborate with other areas within IT to assure delivery.
Lead efforts to develop technical documentation such as Quality System Requirements, Solution Architecture Descriptions and Solution Architecture Description

SPECIFIC COMPETENCE

Strong communication- and relationship building skills with a business oriented mindset
Experience of working with external vendors of IT services, managed service and/or offshore situations
Experience in conducting architecture engineering work in new development projects, maintenance and E2E perspectives
Experience of conducting pre studies from an architectural perspective
Experience in documenting the architecture of system solutions
Accustomed to working with information modelling and information flows
Ability to see patterns and structures that form the basis for the architecture to support business requirements
Understanding of the digital media business and the technical aspects of Marketing resource management/operations, production and content management.

TOOLS/SOFTWARE

Modeling of processes, information flows and logical structures occurs in MS Visio and Enterprise Architect
UML modelling
Programming languages: Java, SAP(not mandatory)
Basic knowledge of PPS or similar
Basic knowledge of ITIL (ITIL Foundation or equivalent).
MS Office

ADDITIONAL

Ability to delegate and work through an organization
A good ability to communicate, prioritize and focus on the most important things by balancing between short-term and long-term problems and solutions
Pedagogic and good communication skills in both Swedish and English
Result-oriented and a strong feeling of responsibility
Ability to apply the the companies values in the daily work
Ability to communicate about problems and solutions
Enjoy working in a fast pace environment and is driven in your work
Used to and enjoy working together with people in creative roles
Ability to communicate and co-operate with different types of persons and roles within both the Business and IT-Department in a proactive manner.
Enjoy leading and working in a team
A genuine interest for continuous improvements