Information & Integration Architect

Hi there, we are currently looking for an Integration & Information Architect to join our team.

If you are reading this, you probably already know that Polestar is an electric performance car brand. We work hard to create a unique experience for the customer, owner, and driver. The thrill of driving the car, the digital experience of buying, owning, and controlling a Polestar require us to push the limits of technology and software development. Sustainability has been there from the beginning, and we have set a moonshot goal for climate-neutral cars in 2030. There is an ocean of opportunities in this for talented IT professionals who wants to dive in and make a difference.



The Team

You will work in a team of architects covering enterprise architecture, software quality, technical standards and information & integration architecture. The team is oriented under the Deputy CDO and supports all the product domains and stakeholders across the organization. Our mindset is very focused on business outcome and being an embedded part of our delivery organization.

The role

To allow our product teams to build world-class customer experiences on a global market we need a common map of our information assets and how it flows between our systems. As the Integration & Information Architect you will enable this by working with the teams to define the policies and standards for how we design, use and exchange information in our system landscape, and ensure that such standards are followed by the teams. As the Information & Integration Architect, you will collaborate with the product domains in their implementation through guiding and coaching. You are also responsible for documenting our landscape and provide visualization of our information assets and flows.



What you'll do

- Design, develop and govern integration architecture principles to secure best practice architecture
- Enable effective data and analytics governance, develop information governance processes and structures, as well as sources and classifications - in close collaboration with the Information Security and Data & Analytics teams
- Conduct business information modelling, create and manage business information models in all forms - including conceptual models, database designs, message models and others.
- Have the responsibility to document the information/data flow and communication between systems.
- Act as an architecture evangelist, active in forums, working groups, functional and regional areas to ensure that communication and alignment is maintained.
- Enhance decision-making and provide the organization with a view of the information landscape for strategic planning etc.
- Improve business performance through enterprise information solutions and capabilities (master data management, metadata management, analytics, content management, data integration, and related information management or information infrastructure components
- Operational work planning cross organizational projects and tasks enabling solutions working End-to-End
- Communicate with solution development, deployment and legacy teams
- Proactively advice in architecture governance forums and design authorities for design decisions
- Document and govern architecture documentation artifacts
- Contribute to strategy development in alignment with the roadmaps of system vendors




Who you are

- Have a relevant background with 10+ years of experience in information architecture, integration architecture and solution design
- Experience in working with microservices based architecture in a cloud-based environment (AWS)
- Have an End-to-End process mindset, bridging between solution areas and applications to integration with standard and best practices as guiding principles
- Experience in design and governance of Cloud based solutions in a hybrid scenario with on premise solutions
- Knowledge of ERP landscape, process architecture and the ERP application portfolio
- Ability to translate business requirements into integration architecture requirements, roadmap and deliverables




Personal Qualities

- A team player with great collaboration and communication skills

- Have the ability to find great solutions through collaboration with different teams
- Self-driven and engaged with a will to encourage people.
- Resilient and result-driven with a persuasive, flexible, and passionate personality.
- A problem solver with detailed focus and a completer/finisher.


Polestar - the guiding star

Polestar is an electric performance brand, determined to improve the society we live in by catalyzing the change to sustainable mobility. We are a global team of highly talented individuals who share a passion to change the world. We challenge conventions and we challenge ourselves for the purpose of innovation. We believe innovation is a team effort and that just like each component is critical to the performance of our cars each person working at Polestar is as important to the team and its performance. We work in close collaboration across empowered global teams that don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

At Polestar, the sky is the limit.

Is this you? If you are interested in joining the Polestar family, don't wait with submitting your application. We apply a continuous selection process and the job post will be open until the position is filled.