Vacant job

Description

The IT department consists of approximately 50 dedicated employees, organized into three units. Together, we are responsible for the municipality's shared IT infrastructure and deliver IT services to the entire organization.

We work with daily support, maintaining and developing our services – while also acting as a strategic partner in the municipality's operational development, where digitalization is a key tool. We deliver our IT services using agile working methods.

We are now looking for an analytical and driven Solutions Architect for our unit, IT Project Office. Do you want to shape the digital solutions of the future and contribute to a sustainable and smart society by developing and designing effective IT solutions that make a difference – then this role is for you!

Responsibilities

As a Solutions Architect with us, you will play a key role in translating business needs and requirements into sustainable technical solutions. You will work closely with both the business operations and the IT department's various teams to guide and contribute to ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and user-friendly.

You will:

• Design and document solution architecture for new and existing systems
• Participate in projects and initiatives from idea to implementation
• Ensure that solutions comply with the municipality's IT strategy, architecture principles, and security requirements
• Provide advisory support on technical matters and contribute to competence development within the organization

Join the "Architecture and Test Management" team as one of several architects and test managers.

Qualifications

We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience working as a Solutions Architect or in a similar role
• Good understanding of integration solutions, cloud services, and modern architectural patterns
• Ability to lead the dialogue between business, IT, and suppliers, as well as communicate and create consensus regarding technical solutions
• Relevant academic education in IT or equivalent experience
• Good communication skills, proficiency in expressing yourself in Swedish, both orally and in writing.

Merits:

• Experience working with frameworks such as Arkitekturgemenskapen, TOGAF, ArchiMate, SAFe, Scrum, ITIL
• Experience with modeling and modeling tools, preferably Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience with public procurement
• Experience with agile working methods
• Experience with change management
• Knowledge of information security and data protection

We will place great emphasis on personal suitability, such as interest in and ability to take responsibility, both for your own work effort and for your part in the team's collective results. In your role, you will have many contacts and various interfaces, both internally and externally, which places high demands on you having a professional and responsible attitude towards colleagues and suppliers. You are social and enjoy having fun at work!

Extended background checks will be conducted in the final stages of the recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application!

What We Offer

With us, you will perform socially important, interesting, and developing tasks. We offer you secure employment conditions, collective agreements, and insurance. You will also benefit from other excellent perks. Read more about our benefits and what it is like to work in Karlstad Municipality at karlstad.se/jobbahososs

Information about salary levels can be found here (select "View salary statistics"). This recruitment relates to AID code 151014.

When you apply for a job with us, you will be asked to provide your CV and answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area. This means you should not attach a cover letter as part of your application.

About Karlstad Municipality

At our Municipal Executive Office, you will help shape the future of Karlstad. We work with leading, developing, steering, supporting, and monitoring the operations in the Karlstad Municipality Group – all for a positive development for today's and future residents of Karlstad.

We are approximately 300 employees who together focus on strategic and sustainable development in the municipal group, often in collaboration with business life and other parts of society. Our tasks include, among others, finance, law, procurement, HR, communication, and IT. We are also a driving force in the municipality's work with digitalization and innovation, where we develop smart solutions and new working methods that strengthen both service and efficiency.

Do you want to help create the Karlstad of the future? In the Karlstad Municipality Group, you can make a real difference. Here, every employee is an important part of the whole, and together we help realize our vision of "A better life in the City of the Sun." Come and grow with us!

Other Information

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process and simplify communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application via our recruitment systems and not via email or paper format. We decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.

If you have protected personal data, you should not register your application documents in our recruitment system, nor send them via email. Instead, contact the municipality's switchboard at 054-540 00 00 for further handling.