Head of Architect Guild at Anti Financial Crime

Looking to lead a team of knowledgeable architects creating innovative solutions that contribute positively to society while driving progress towards business objectives? Join our expanding department responsible for the Financial Crime Prevention, Security, and AI Portfolios at Swedbank.


In Swedbank you have the opportunity to:
- Lead and develop a knowledgeable team of architects in an expanding department across a large variety of business-critical deliveries offering unique opportunities for growth and learning.

- Make a meaningful societal impact collaborating with key partners on the development of architectural vision and strategy in the areas of financial crime prevention, cyber security, identity and access management and AI.

- Help define the technology solution and environment roadmaps in collaboration with key collaborators to ensure adequate capacity and scalability, and to establish future capabilities, as demand and usage evolve.

- Actively champion new technologies and innovations to establish industry-leading systems, reduce complexity, improve information flow, and minimize costs.

- Oversee and ensure that the IT application landscape aligns with strategic needs and objectives.

- Support an agile development process, foster business agility within the organization and guide the implementation of architectural ways of working, standards, processes, and tools in accordance with Swedbank frameworks and industry best practice.

What is needed in this role:

- Demonstrated (formal or informal) leadership experience, a customer-centric mindset, business acumen, and excellent communication skills (to both technical and non-technical audiences).

- Strong team player with ability to build networks, skilled at collaborating and influencing at different levels of the organization in a geographically distributed and diverse environment.

- A solution-oriented mindset with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Genuine interest for innovation and curiosity to explore and internalize industry best practices and trends.

- Ability to think big and challenge conventional wisdom while cultivating a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion as well as build, maintain, and grow high-performing teams in an agile development environment.

- Experience with ambiguity, strong prioritization skills focusing on business advancement, and willingness to take bets on new technology.

- Extensive experience from IT architecture and technology transformations with accompanying repertoire of methods and tools and strong knowledge of Application/Data/Integration architecture and cloud services.

- Knowledge of Swedbank IT landscape and experience in one or more of the following domains - Financial Crime Prevention, Cyber Security, Crypto & Key Management, Identity & Access Management, AI - is highly meriting.

- Understanding of concepts of information security, information management and personal data protection to ensure compliance in Swedbank IT environments.

- Experience of working with external vendor procurements to enable improvement of solutions and impacting business activities.

What we offer when you join us:
- An open, simple and caring culture.
- Opportunity to create the best experience for our customers.
- An international, sustainable and inclusive work environment.
- Development opportunities and advancement in your career.
- Flexible working options.
- Access to Group performance program, company pension plan, optional health insurance, and other benefits (https://www.swedbank.com/work-with-us/compensation-and-benefits.html).

Join our team and...
be part of a cross-national, skilled, and innovative team of professionals, who jointly deliver a wide spectrum of business-critical products utilizing technology to shape the future of Financial Crime Prevention, Security and AI at Swedbank”. Peter Åsmyr, your future manager

We look forward to receiving your application by 22.10.2023.
Location: Stockholm HQ/ Sundbyberg, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius

Contacts

Recruiting manager: Peter Åsmyr, +46725510828

SACO: Henrik
Joelsson

Finansförbundet: Jonas Nyström, +46
8 585 946 52

If you are employed in Estonia, please note that the salary offered for this position ranges from 4100-6100 EUR gross i.e. before taxes. Read more here.

If you are to be employed in Latvia, please note that the salary offered for this position ranges from 3800-5700 EUR gross i.e. before taxes. Read more here (https://jobs.swedbank.com/pages/employment-in-latvia-and-lithuania?preview=true).

If you are to be employed in Lithuania, please note that the salary offered for this position ranges from 4800-7200 EUR gross i.e. before taxes. Read more here (https://jobs.swedbank.com/pages/employment-in-latvia-and-lithuania?preview=true).

We may begin the selection during the application period, so we welcome your application as soon as possible.

We have made our choice regarding recruitment media and therefore kindly decline contact with ad sellers or sellers of other recruitment services.

Swedbank does not discriminate anybody based on gender, age, sexual orientation or sexual identity, ethnicity, religion or disability - everybody is welcome.

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