Enterprise Architect Lead

About the role

Securitas IT is looking for an Enterprise Architect Lead in Stockholm to lead the European target architecture for business applications. The role sits in the Architecture team of the Business Application IT Centre of Excellence, which supports multi-country roll-outs after a European-wide business transformation. The architect manages a team of four people (business architect, PMO support, two solution architects for Oracle and WFM) and coordinates external consultants.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the European target architecture and govern all architecture decisions for European applications.
• Act as design authority for business applications within the North Star scope, giving direction and decision support to Product Domains and country roll-outs.
• Review and validate major application, integration and platform design decisions, ensuring adherence to European and Group enterprise architecture principles.
• Lead or support country-level architecture assessments (as-is, to-be, gap analysis) and chair or contribute to country assessment forums and design reviews.
• Ensure architectural consistency and reuse across multi-country roll-outs.
• Contribute to the enterprise data model, data flows, integrations and master data management, and support end-to-end business process mapping.
• Collaborate with Program Management, Product Owners, Service Delivery and AMS partners, and help develop architecture standards, methods and best practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10-15 years of IT experience.
• Strong background in enterprise, application and integration architecture, and experience with large, multi-year, multi-country transformation programs.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF); LeanIX is a plus.
• Strong understanding of back-office systems (ERP, Finance, HR, Workforce Management) and digitalisation.
• Fluency in English; the role is open to candidates based in Europe.

Required skills

• Enterprise architecture governance and design authority.
• Data modelling, integration and master data management.
• Leadership of a small team and coordination of external consultants.