IT & Strategy Talent Programme - Talent within Information Security

Company Description
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.


Job Description
Now you can shape the path towards fossil free living. We are searching for talented individuals to join us on our journey towards fossil free living. Individuals that challenge the way we think, lead us down new paths and contribute to solving the biggest challenge of humankind – climate change. Is this you?
By applying for the IT & Strategy Talent Programme you can become 1 of 23 talents working towards that goal. Each of the 23 positions in the program is unique and has its own specific responsibilities and challenges. This is a two-year programme with a strong focus on your development. You will have an individual development plan aiming at a targeted competence profile after two years and building blocks with learning goals towards that target. As part of the programme, you can look forward to assignments/rotations aimed at giving you a chance to really get into a project and deliver value.
Your role as a Talent within Information Security
As a Talent within Information Security you will be working close to our Protective Security officer and provide support within the Information Security regulation to our IT line management and project managers across the IT organization.
Focus area in this role is to apply the regulations and Swedish law, within the Information Security and Protective Security area of work within Vattenfall IT. Further you will:
provide advice and guidance as well as auditing of Protective security in projects, line organization and management groups across the organisation
deal with authorities ; establish contacts, writing formal documents and analysis

For this position you will work with our SPO, learn IT organization, the culture, process and learn much specifically about the IT-security environment as one of our main critical topics within IT. Moreover it is International environment, contact with Executive management and the IT organization.
Vattenfall IT organization operates in an international environment and your stakeholders will be based across the region. In this role you will have the opportunity to grow a wide network within our organization.


Qualifications
Who are you?
We are looking for a Talent with an academic background, preferably from the Master program in Information Security, but other programs within IT, Data or General Engineering, Business Management would be relevant to, if you have an interest in the field of work.
You are pro-active and a self-motivator with the ability to work independently.
You find structural working approach beneficial
We believe you are rather mature as a person although still new in your career, having the ability to keep your stands if/when facing resistance or being challenged
Most important to succeed in this position is that you are willing to invest time into gaining new knowledge and learnings and to implement these in the business context

As a Talent within Information Security, you recognize yourself in the following:
Fluent in both Swedish and English, as well in written as in spoken language
Focused and interested to learn more about topics in Security and Protective Security within IT
Able to handle a steep learning curve
Committed to a climate-smarter living
Ability to travel regularly

Do you often think of your logical separation in your network are good enough or how do you really use NTP from an external source without breaking the airgap? Have you read the 4 chapter of Säkerhetspolisens (PMFS 2022:1) guidance of protective security and wonder if there is a difference between import/export and communication? Maybe not. But you want to contribute to protect the information systems that supports the production and distribution of electricity to Sweden from antagonists. Then you might be interested of this!


Additional Information
Location
You will be working in the department of our CIO and our Protective Security officer and the location for this position is Stockholm, Solna in our head quarters.
Our offer
The IT & Strategy Talent Programme is a kickstart to your career within Vattenfall. It will give you the opportunity to visit different parts of our organization, e.g., in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Denmark. There are planned weeks including personal development and internal leadership development from our Vattenfall Management Institute. Each position comes with a competitive salary and an excellent remuneration package
Application process
We welcome your application in English, including resume and cover letter. Last day to apply is February 9th, 2023. The selection period starts in the middle of February, followed by online tests and interviews in March and April. The recruitment process will be finalized around the end of April. The last step will be a pre-employment screening. The starting date of the Strategy and IT Talent Programme will be 1st September 2023.
We look forward to your application! If you have any questions regarding the Talent Programme in general, please check our FAQ page. For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact responsible recruiter Elnoosh Farhoudfar, elnoosh.farhoudfar@vattenfall.com
Trade union representatives in Sweden (IT) are Sofi Wadström (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.
Our organization
At Vattenfall you can free your superpowers! We are one of the European market leaders in the generation of renewable energy and are primarily active in Scandinavia, Germany, Denmark, UK and the Netherlands. We take our responsibility seriously and together we are making the change towards fossil freedom.