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Build the digital future of Örnsköldsvik Municipality – as an IT Architect

For you who want to help build a sustainable and cohesive digital municipality!

The Development Department is tasked with supporting and developing the municipality's work with digitalization, business management, innovation, and quality development. We are now looking for an IT Architect who wants to contribute to structure, coherence, and long-term sustainability in Örnsköldsvik Municipality's digital environment.

Here, you will have a strategic role where you create direction and context in a complex IT landscape – from business systems and integrations to data platforms and information management.

Responsibilities

As an IT Architect, you are responsible for developing and maintaining the municipality's overall IT architecture. You work close to the business operations and ensure that new and existing solutions are technically, functionally, and securely integrated.

The role involves:

• Developing and maintaining architecture principles, guidelines, and target images.
• Creating structure and interaction between systems, integrations, and data warehouses.
• Ensuring that solutions are robust, secure, and manageable over time.
• Supporting the implementation of new IT solutions from a holistic perspective.
• Participating in procurement processes through clear requirement setting.
• Documenting the current state, target architecture, and strategic choices.
• Contributing to long-term sustainable information management.
• Working closely with IT operations, system administrators, development functions, and the business operations, as well as participating in the municipality's strategic digitalization work.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who:

• Have a relevant university degree in IT, systems science, or equivalent.
• Have experience in IT architecture, solution architecture, or a similar role.
• Have a good understanding of integrations, cloud services, and modern platforms.
• Understand the relationship between technology, business operations, and information security.
• Are structured, analytical, and see the big picture before point solutions.
• Have good communication skills in both speech and writing.
• It is an advantage if you have experience from public sector operations and work in a Microsoft environment.

Personality

• You are unpretentious, communicative, and pedagogical.
• You have the ability to translate complex technical relationships into clear choices.
• You work independently but thrive in collaboration with others, seeing long-term sustainability as a natural part of good architecture.

We place great emphasis on personal suitability.

A valid Class B driver's license is required.

Please attach your CV and cover letter with your application.

Be inspired by what it is like to live, work, and thrive in Örnsköldsvik.

The Municipal Executive Office works under the Municipal Executive Board and is responsible for leading, coordinating, supporting, and monitoring the combined municipal operations.

Other Information

During the interview process, we will conduct an identity check and verify citizenship. Approved documents include a passport, international ID card, driver's license + personal certificate from the Swedish Tax Agency, or other ID documents that strengthen citizenship. For some positions, extracts from the police's suspicion and criminal record registers are required.

We welcome proficiency in Finnish and/or any of the Sami varieties, as Örnsköldsvik Municipality is part of both the Finnish and Sami administrative areas.

Several positions in our municipality are classified for security, so security clearance may be required. These positions may require Swedish citizenship.