IT Architect at the State Pensions Agency (SPV)

The State Pensions Agency (SPV) is one of Sweden's largest providers of pension services. We manage occupational pensions and insurance for employers in the public sector and have over 1,100,000 customers, including current and former public sector employees as well as pensioners. Our office is located in Sundsvall.

Join us in creating public value. We are a government agency dedicated to making occupational pensions simple for everyone who is or has been employed in the public sector. Our focus is on our customers, drive for action, and innovative thinking. We believe that working together across the entire organization is a key to delivering high-quality work.

1 position.

RESPONSIBILITIES

SPV has initiated a major business renewal and has several extensive development assignments requiring architecture competence, where you will contribute to some of them.

As an IT Architect, you are a key part of SPV's agile architecture governance. You contribute to developing SPV's target architecture by being a central part of SPV's architecture function. You take overall responsibility for business development within the architecture area by collaborating with colleagues in the architecture team and with other teams within SPV. You take the initiative for future important shifts and are ready to drive these together with your colleagues.

This includes, among other things:

• contributing to larger activities and assignments involving IT support
• leading work on IT architecture and system architecture within different business areas from a holistic perspective
• maintaining the architecture related to different business areas
• ensuring that the architecture follows the overarching target architecture and supports the laws, regulations, and strategic directions that have been decided upon
• contributing to the development of SPV's target architecture and other structural capital.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have an academic degree in a relevant field or work experience that we assess as equivalent. You have held leading IT architect roles in large projects for at least three years, where you were responsible for the architecture. You have worked with architecture in the delivery of IT support based on modern distributed architecture. Furthermore, you have at least three years of experience working with the analysis and design of IT solutions.

You have good knowledge of Swedish, both spoken and written, as well as good knowledge of English.

We consider it meritorious if you have experience of:

• working with architecture in an agile way of working
• web-based technologies on the Microsoft platform in .NET
• implementation of AI solutions

To succeed in this assignment, your personal qualities are very important, and we will place great emphasis on them in this recruitment.

As a person:

• you are proactive. You take initiative, start activities, and achieve results.
• you have good collaboration skills. You work well with other people and relate to them in a listening and smooth manner. You listen, communicate, and resolve any conflicts in a constructive way.
• you have problem-solving and analytical abilities. You work well with complex issues. You have the ability to analyze and break down problems into their components and solve complicated problems.
• you communicate clearly. You speak well-formulated and engaged in individual meetings as well as in both small and large groups. You listen and are receptive to the other party and adapt to the situation.

You are warmly welcome to contact us if you have any questions or thoughts. During vacation periods, it may be more difficult to reach our contact persons. Try calling the contact person you wish to speak with first; if you do not get an answer, you can email the contact person, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Employment type: Permanent.
Duration: Permanent, start date: As agreed. We apply a 6-month probation period.

You are warmly welcomed here. Here, 250 engaged people work, and we think it is important that you feel comfortable with us. We are open to new ideas, our surroundings, and each other. And we like to try new things and have a strong drive forward. We see recruitment as a long-term investment and think it is important that you, as an employee, feel good, have balance in life, and are given the opportunity to develop your talents.

We work at a flexible workplace, both in lovely premises and with the possibility to work from home 50 percent if you wish. In the SPV building, we recommend a coffee break in our winter garden or perhaps a while in our fresh gym. Additionally, we have various wellness activities you can participate in, as there is something for everyone. We strive for diversity and to have an inclusive perspective at all levels of the organization.

Our operations are based on the common public sector values. It is a fundamental starting point for us, regardless of what we work with. Democracy is the overriding principle in the values, and the citizens are our ultimate client. Other principles in the public sector values are legality, objectivity, freedom of opinion formation, respect, as well as efficiency and service.

SPV has individual and differentiated salary setting applied in accordance with the central wage agreements RALS/RALS-T. More information about us as an employer and the employment benefits you are offered can be found under "Work at SPV" on SPV.se.

A security clearance may be conducted. More information about what security clearance entails can be found here: https://sakerhetspolisen.se/sakerhetsskydd/registerkontroll.html (https://sakerhetspolisen.se/sakerhetsskydd/registerkontroll.html)

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