IT Architect Specialist
Workplace: Luleå, Sverige
Expires: August 17, 2025
Join Vattenfall AB as an IT Architect Specialist in Luleå, contributing to accelerating digitalization in critical societal operations and supporting a fossil-free life within a generation by shaping tomorrow's smart energy networks.
Main requirements:
  • Customer focus with holistic perspective
  • Ability to lead and drive architecture work balancing short- and long-term focus
  • Communicate and visualize complex solutions simply and accessibly
  • Skilled at anchoring and navigating in large organizations
  • Humility and respect in collaboration
  • Curiosity and staying updated in professional and industry developments
  • Relevant university education in IT, computer science or equivalent
  • At least 10 years of experience in architecture roles such as Domain Architect, IT Architect, Solution Architect, or System Architect
  • Experience in large IT modernization and transformation projects in complex IT environments with cloud solutions, preferably in transaction-heavy and security-classified operations
  • Experience with Azure PaaS, API Management, Kafka, Hybrid Integrations, Databricks, Dynamics, Microservices architecture, Zero Trust, IAM
  • Good understanding of information and data architecture
  • Experience developing decision support, target architectures, and IT roadmaps
  • Experience applying methods and frameworks (e.g., SAFe, TOGAF) and architecture tools (e.g., Visio, Sparx Enterprise Architect)
  • Experience working with agile methods and iterative deliveries
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in Swedish and English
Responsibilities:
  • Drive co-creation and anchoring of future IT landscape in close collaboration with IT and business
  • Facilitate IT solutions within and across delivery areas, conduct analyses and develop decision support focusing on data, analytics, infrastructure, and integration
  • Lead architecture and design work, analyze technical choices, guide initiatives, and develop designs following architecture principles, target architecture, and standards
  • Communicate and visualize architectural progress in roadmaps
  • Monitor and lead architectural evaluations of new technologies, tools, and concepts alongside relevant groups/teams
  • Ensure architecture is updated and coherent together with other architects and the business
  • Participate in further development of common architecture methods and tools
Required hard skills:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Integration Platforms and Middleware
  • Cloud Platforms (Azure PaaS)
  • API Management
  • Kafka
  • Hybrid Integration Solutions
  • Data Analytics Platforms (Databricks)
  • CRM Systems (Dynamics)
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Zero Trust Security Model
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Information and Data Architecture
  • Architecture Frameworks and Methods (SAFe, TOGAF)
  • Architecture Tools (Visio, Sparx Enterprise Architect)
  • Agile Methodologies
Recommended hard skills:
  • Experience in transaction-heavy and security-classified environments
  • Development of IT roadmaps and decision support documentation
Soft skills:
  • Customer focus
  • Holistic thinking
  • Leadership and initiative
  • Communication and visualization of complex solutions
  • Collaboration and respect
  • Curiosity and continuous learning
  • Organizational navigation skills
Frameworks:
  • SAFe
  • TOGAF
Natural languages:
  • Swedish (Proficient)
  • English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
  • Diversity and inclusion awareness
  • Sustainability orientation
  • Work-life balance sensitivity
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