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Seize the opportunity to make a real difference, we are looking for a senior system developer who wants to be part of an exciting development journey!

Senior System Developer for the Future Traffic Management System

We are strengthening our IT organization and increasing the pace of innovation at the Swedish Transport Administration with a senior .NET developer for IKT railway. You will be part of a team that develops, manages, and participates in the operation of our operational and critical systems. Together with the team, you will maintain a high delivery capacity and continuously deliver benefits to users and train travelers.

IKT Railway is on an exciting journey where we are undergoing a transformation of both the technical platform and our working methods. The goal of the journey is to modernize our technical platform where we will work with the latest .NET versions, test-driven development, short lead times to production, and an application environment where we primarily want to work with containers and Kubernetes at the core.

Our teams consist of various roles and competencies that collaborate in an agile working method. In the teams, we constantly work to develop and improve our working methods. We exchange ideas and innovation proposals, and together we solve the challenges we face. As a Senior System Developer at the Swedish Transport Administration, you will help facilitate everyday life for residents and businesses across Sweden.

Manager's words about the position: We have exciting assignments that make a difference for Swedish train traffic both today and in the future. As a Senior System Developer, you are the spider in the web of a development team with great opportunities to influence solutions and quality regarding technology and development issues.

Employee's words about the position: As a Senior System Developer, you are an important cog in a development team at the Swedish Transport Administration. You become part of the glue between IT and Operations and gain a unique understanding of both parts. With a curious mind and the ability to think outside the box, you contribute daily to improving the Swedish transport system.

The location for the position is Linköping.

Do you want a flexible everyday life with the opportunity to work from home? In this role, you can work remotely up to two days a week over time; on other days, you will work alongside colleagues at the office in Linköping. In this recruitment, web-based tests are used as part of the selection process. Interviews will be conducted digitally via Skype and are scheduled to take place during weeks 15 and 16. To avoid missing important information about your application, please ensure you stay updated via "My Career Page"! We primarily use email (from the email address: [email protected]) for sending out information and invitations. Please check your inbox and also your spam folder regularly during this time to ensure you receive all information from us! You can also add that email address to your email contacts.

We are looking for someone with good problem-solving skills, who dares to try new things and is driven to develop both themselves and their colleagues. You are quality-conscious; meticulous and aware of goals and quality standards, and you place importance on meeting these. You thrive in a team environment, have the ability to take a leading position when required, and enjoy being surrounded by skilled colleagues. You care about a helpful climate and having fun at work, share your knowledge, and are ready to support and mentor more junior colleagues.

You love to dive into the technology and learn about the operations that the IT systems are meant to support, to develop solutions that satisfy users in collaboration with the operations. A prerequisite for succeeding in this is that you can communicate about the technical solutions in a way that is easy for others to understand, and that you eagerly take in different perspectives.

We are looking for someone who has:

• a university degree in IT 180 credits (120 ECTS), e.g., computer science, software engineering, or another education combined with relevant experience that we assess as equivalent
• extensive current work experience in system development throughout the entire chain; requirements specification, design, programming, testing, and deployment
• several years of current work experience in programming within the Microsoft platform with C# and .NET
• very good knowledge of Swedish in speech and writing

It is meritorious if you have current, practical experience in:

• working in a technically leading role, e.g., Lead Developer and software architect
• one or more of the following technology areas: Microservices architecture, container technology such as Openshift, graph database such as neo4j
• observability with e.g., Elastic/Kibana
• TDD (Test-Driven Development) and/or BDD (Behavior-Driven Development)
• systems within traffic management, transport, telecommunications, or other critical infrastructure

The questions you will need to answer when submitting your application will form the basis for the first selection we make. Unless stated otherwise in the advertisement, we would like you to attach your CV. We have stopped requesting personal letters as we do not include them as part of the selection material. If you have protected personal information, please contact the responsible manager for the recruitment so that your application can be handled according to special procedures. You can find the name and contact details of the manager in the advertisement. Within our IT organization, you will help develop Sweden with modern and innovative solutions. We are in the midst of an exciting change where we are trying to fully utilize the opportunities of digitalization. Digitalization places increasing demands, and we therefore want to adapt in terms of skills, working methods, and organization in line with development. We have a comprehensive responsibility for IT and telecommunications, an operation that runs around the clock, all year round - just like Sweden's transport system.