Vacant job

Digitalization Department, Section for Strategy, Architecture & Controlling

You have built complex solutions, led architecture forums, driven target architectures, and helped companies grow through smart technical choices. Now, perhaps you want to do something bigger. Something that actually makes a difference.

The Swedish Government Offices are in the midst of one of Sweden's most extensive digital transformations. We are modernizing our enterprise architecture, implementing generative AI, scaling cloud platforms, and building a data-driven organization. It is large, complex, and of significant public interest.

Your workday. Sweden's tomorrow.

We are now looking for a Chief Architect who wants to take a holistic approach to architecture and lead the direction forward. Our mission is unique: our solutions are used throughout the Swedish Government Offices and at over 100 Swedish embassies and consulates worldwide. Here, you will work with a combination of complexity, public benefit, and global reach that few other organizations can offer.

What you build has direct impact – nationally and internationally.

About the role

This is a central and strategic role with overall responsibility for shaping, developing, and coordinating all architecture within our organization. It is a key role in realizing our digitalization strategy.

As Chief Architect, you have a leading role but are not a line manager. You lead through expertise, influence, and collaboration. You are the hub that makes enterprise architecture function as a cohesive discipline, and you guide our architects toward a common vision. You work closely with management, business units, and architects, and have the mandate to shape a modern, sustainable, and strategically anchored architecture.

Your mission:

• Have primary responsibility for all architecture – business, information, application, and technical architecture.
• Lead and coordinate EA work, ensuring structure, direction, and quality.
• Be the organization's foremost architectural advisor and strategic partner.
• Ensure that architecture supports the business's goals, strategies, and change initiatives.
• Drive forward common principles, guidelines, and target architectures.
• Support and coach architects in various parts of the organization, without being their direct manager.
• Create conditions for long-term stability and innovation in our architecture.

Read more about our operations at http://www.regeringen.se/ (http://www.regeringen.se/)

Your background

Requirements:

• University degree or professional experience considered equivalent.
• Documented multi-year experience as an Enterprise Architect or Chief Architect.
• Experience in developing EA governance, principles, guidelines, and models.
• Experience in establishing a self-sustaining EA function.
• Experience in business-driven development and requirements analysis.
• Good understanding of modern technical platforms, integration architecture, and information models.
• Very good understanding of requirements for security, privacy, and regulatory compliance in complex operations.
• Experience in building internal architecture capabilities and training organizations.
• Excellent ability to communicate in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.

Merits:

• Experience from the public sector or other regulated industries.
• Experience in establishing common platforms and technical frameworks.
• Knowledge of architecture methods such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or similar.
• Experience with AI-related architecture, data platforms, or cloud strategies.
• Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud solutions.
• Experience with architecture governance and executive-level advisory.
• Experience in building internal architecture capabilities and training organizations.
• Experience with agile development methods.

Your personality

You are confident, clear, and analytical – and can explain complex issues in a simple and inspiring way. You build trust with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and thrive in environments where you can create structure and direction. You are pragmatic and solution-oriented, driven by progress, and take responsibility for sustainable and secure solutions. You are passionate about your work and visible within the organization.

The Swedish Government Offices' employee criteria are holism, development, and results.

Read more at https://www.regeringen.se/jobba-hos-oss/att-arbeta-i-regeringskansliet/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap-i-regeringskansliet/ (https://www.regeringen.se/jobba-hos-oss/att-arbeta-i-regeringskansliet/medarbetarskap-och-ledarskap-i-regeringskansliet/)

Other information

We are looking for one or more experienced Enterprise Architects. The position is a permanent employment starting with a six-month probation period. Start date by agreement. The position is security classified, which means a security check with register control will be conducted before employment. You must be a Swedish citizen, but may have a foreign background.

Are you interested?

If you want to know more about the job and what we offer, you are welcome to contact the responsible manager Maria Rune or recruitment specialist Filip Ristov. As we are currently in holiday periods, it may take some time before you hear from us. Union contacts are Johan Strokirk for Saco and Jan Wahlström for ST. You can reach them via the Swedish Government Offices' switchboard, 08-405 10 00.

We are happy to receive calls from you if you are interested in the job, but we decline calls from those selling advertising and recruitment services.

Please submit your application by August 31st.

The Swedish Government Offices' mission is to support the Government in its work to steer Sweden and realize its politics. Here, 4,800 people work, of whom 600 are abroad. The Swedish Government Offices welcome applicants with different backgrounds and experiences. We see equality and diversity as a strength and asset, and we work actively to be a workplace free from discrimination. The Administration Department is responsible for agency-wide issues such as change and renewal work, economy, employer issues, competence supply, communication, security, IT, library, archives, and registry, as well as for the common services in the Swedish Government Offices.