IT Solution Architect with focus on Operational Technology
Workplace: Sundbyberg, Sverige
Expires: August 25, 2025
Svenska kraftnät is a key player in the energy transition. Their IT division is growing to enable doubled electricity production and a fossil-free future by increasing infrastructure capacity and advancing digitalization and processes. They are seeking a Solution Architect for the unit close to OT systems, supporting the Network division in Operational Technology, which is responsible for maintaining the power transmission system including extensive power lines and stations. The role involves strengthening architecture around IT systems with OT focus linked to stations and facilities during their digitalization. The position offers a complex and exciting environment with opportunities to develop modern IT and OT technologies. Responsibilities include participating in discussions and planning for power system application needs, creating architectural descriptions and reporting in IT architect forums, ensuring IT solutions fit the IT environment and meet operational needs and quality requirements, compliance with target architecture and IT security architecture, evaluating working methods and processes with product choices, participating in information and system classification and risk analyses, recommending project and strategic pathways, and developing IT/OT architecture enabling safe and efficient communication between IT and OT.
Main requirements:
- Collaborative with strong relationship-building and trust skills
- Ability to communicate complex issues clearly to diverse audiences
- Driven to achieve high-quality results and capable of holistic and structured thinking aligned with overarching target architectures
- Education in relevant technical field or equivalent competence
- Several years of current and relevant experience in solution architecture within industrial control, command and protection systems and IT/OT software development
- Experience working with infrastructure maintenance and management processes such as electricity networks, telecom, or real estate
- Experience in system design or similar architecture roles following established methods, tools, and processes
- Experience from mission-critical and integration-heavy enterprise systems
- Proficiency in spoken and written Swedish and English
Responsibilities:
- Engage in discussions and planning for power system applications with development and maintenance teams
- Produce architectural descriptions and present them in IT architecture forums
- Participate in a virtual architecture group coordinating architects within the network domain
- Ensure IT solutions fit Svenska kraftnät's IT environment and meet operational requirements and quality standards
- Ensure compliance with target architecture, architectural principles, and IT security architecture
- Evaluate and recommend working methods, processes, and product selections
- Contribute to information classification, system classification, and risk and vulnerability analyses
- Recommend paths forward to achieve project and strategic goals
- Develop IT/OT architecture to enable secure and effective communication between IT and OT environments
Required hard skills:
- Solution architecture in industrial control, command and protection systems
- IT/OT software development and integration projects
- Knowledge of maintenance and asset management processes for critical infrastructure
- System design and architecture methodologies, tools, and processes
- Experience with mission-critical and integration-intensive enterprise systems
- Strong Swedish and English language skills
Recommended hard skills:
- Certification in IT architecture
- Experience with security solutions for IT/OT integration
- Work experience in security-sensitive operations
- Experience in power supply and power transmission sectors
Soft skills:
- Collaboration and relationship-building
- Adaptable communication to different competence levels
- Ability to explain complex issues clearly and engagingly
- Result-oriented with high quality standards
- Holistic and structured thinking aligned with overarching architectures
Natural languages:
- Swedish (Proficient)
- English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Understanding of energy sector challenges and digital transformation
- Commitment to security and confidentiality requirements
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