System Administrator with Team Leader Responsibilities at the State Pensions Agency

You are warmly welcome here. We have 250 dedicated employees, and we believe it is important that you feel at home with us. We are open to new ideas, our external environment, and to each other. We enjoy testing new things and have a strong drive to move forward. We view recruitment as a long-term investment and believe it is crucial that you, as an employee, feel well, have a balanced life, and are given the opportunity to develop your talents.

We work in a flexible environment, both in our pleasant offices and with the option to work from home 50 percent of the time if you wish. In the SPV building, we recommend a coffee break in our winter garden or perhaps a session in our fresh gym. Additionally, we offer various wellness activities as there is something for everyone. We strive for diversity and an inclusive mindset at all levels of the organization.

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 serve over 1,100,000 customers, including current and former state employees and pensioners. Our office is located in Sundsvall.

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

1 position available.

Job Responsibilities

The IT Team is in need of reinforcement. The team currently consists of five people with diverse skills who together ensure the operation, development, and management of several different systems. We are now looking for a System Administrator who can contribute with experience, new ideas, and structure. The role currently includes team leader responsibilities.

As a System Administrator, you work as a specialist with a deep understanding of the systems' functions and are well-versed in the business needs, enabling you to understand what needs to be changed and improved. You participate in continuous development work through requirement and testing efforts, and ensure high availability through improvement projects, troubleshooting, analysis, and error resolution of production systems.

As a team leader, you contribute to the right prioritization within the team based on decided priorities, contribute to efficient working methods, and represent the team in various forums, such as cross-agency planning. You collaborate closely with the unit manager to ensure the right conditions for the team and contribute to a good work environment.

SPV is embarking on an exciting change journey within our IT environment. The system landscape within the IT assignment currently consists of IT solutions built with both older and modern technology. Together, you will drive your own development as a team and collaborate with other teams within SPV.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who have an academic degree in IT or several years of experience that we assess as equivalent. You have experience in identifying and driving changes for IT systems. You also have experience driving requirements and testing work in an agile organization and understand the importance of collaboration between IT and the business.

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

We consider it meritorious if you:

• have experience with SQL
• have experience from system administration models
• have experience with Azure DevOps
• have experience with .Net, C#, Cobol, NServiceBus
• are a certified Scrum Master
• are certified in requirements and/or testing work

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 have good collaboration skills. You enjoy working with other people and relate to them in a listening and smooth manner. You listen, communicate, and resolve any conflicts constructively.
• You are creative. You often come up with ideas and new approaches to work-related issues. You have innovative thinking that can be put into practice and leads to results.
• You have problem-solving and analytical abilities. You find it easy to work with complex issues. You have the ability to analyze and break down problems into their components and solve complicated problems.
• You have pedagogical insight. You have a good understanding of how humans acquire knowledge and people's different prerequisites. You adapt the way you convey your message to the recipient.

You are warmly welcome to contact us if you have any questions or thoughts. During holiday 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 position.
Duration: Start date by agreement. We apply a 6-month probation period.

Our operations are based on the common public sector values. This 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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