Master Data Coordinator at the Swedish Armed Forces

Do you want to work in a key role where you contribute to developing and strengthening the operations of the Swedish Armed Forces? As a Master Data Coordinator, you are an important resource in creating structure, quality, and coherence in the organization’s information – from development to management.

About the Unit

The Defense Staff supports the Armed Forces leadership by processing and preparing incoming cases, questions, and tasks, while ensuring that decided operations are carried out and reported back.

The section is responsible for coordinating the development and management of the Armed Forces' war organization (KRO) and basic organization (GRO), as well as maintaining the authority's governance of the war placement work. The section is located at the Defense Staff in Stockholm.

The Organizational Section ensures that the Armed Forces' organization reflects current decisions and that correct data and master data are available in all of the authority's support systems.

Main Responsibilities

As a Master Data Coordinator, you will coordinate the management, development, and use of master data across the organization – regardless of system, operational area, or working method. You will work from a lifecycle perspective and ensure that shared data is quality assured, coordinated, and usable in several of the Armed Forces' central support systems.

The role is operationally close and involves supporting development, maintenance, and management work, where you contribute with a holistic perspective, analysis, and coordination.

Your main responsibilities:

• Coordinate stakeholders and provide advisory support to decision-makers
• Ensure uniform, quality-assured, and synchronized master data
• Support process leaders in development and improvement work
• Contribute to requirements specification and development of IT services
• Coordinate regulations, standards, and needs related to master data
• Participate in the development, testing, and implementation of system support
• Contribute to business architecture and information security analysis
• Promote high data quality, accessibility, and long-term sustainability

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications

• Approved upper secondary education
• Current experience in a relevant field for the role within a larger organization, preferably a government agency
• Very good knowledge of MS Excel
• Very good knowledge of SAP
• Good ability to express yourself well in speech and writing in Swedish

Personal Attributes

You are analytical and meticulous, with the ability to quickly understand complex contexts and see how details fit together in a larger whole. You have a strong user focus and strive to create solutions that work in practice.

You collaborate effectively with others and naturally take a leading role in the work, driving issues forward and contributing to change and development. You work in a structured manner, take responsibility for the whole, and have a high security awareness as well as good integrity.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal attributes.

DESIRABLE

• Experience of relevant work in the Armed Forces
• Experience in project management with a focus on implementation and change
• Experience working in PRIO/SAP

For the authority's mission to be successful, it is assumed that all employees act according to the values that exist. The Armed Forces' value base safeguards the equal value of all people, justice, and equality and promotes democracy and human rights (read more at www.forsvarsmakten.se (http://www.forsvarsmakten.se)).

Other Information

Employment type: permanent employment. The Armed Forces applies a six-month probationary period for those who are not employed by the authority.

Employment rate: full-time

Work location: Stockholm

Civilian position

Tests will occur in the recruitment process

Inquiries about the position

Contact the recruiting manager Marcus Appelgren

Information about the recruitment process

Contact HR Specialist Elin Dahlqvist

Union Representatives

SACO: Stefan Ungerth
SEKO: Monika Danielsson/Lise-Lotte Larsson
Defense Union, OFRS: Kjell Tetzlaff
OFRO: Roger Ericsson

All can be reached via the switchboard at 08-788 75 00.

Application

Welcome with your application by 2026-04-13. Your application should include a CV and a cover letter where you motivate why you are suitable for this position as well as answers to the specified selection questions.

Applications for this position will only be accepted via the Armed Forces' website.

Information about the recruiting unit:

At the Headquarters, there is the Chief of Defense and the Director General. The Headquarters has approximately 1,000 employees – both professional officers and civilian experts. The Headquarters consists from 2023-01-01 of the Defense Staff, operations management, military intelligence and security service, as well as the Headquarters' staff department and independent supervisory units.

An employment with us means placement in a security class. Usually, Swedish citizenship is required. A security review with a background check will be conducted before employment according to Chapter 3 of the Security Protection Act. With employment comes an obligation to be placed in wartime. The nature of this obligation varies depending on the type of position.

To the application for employment, a CV and a personal letter must be attached. If you proceed in the employment process, certified copies of grades and certificates must always be presented.

Calls from external recruitment companies and sellers are not welcome.