Lead Architect

Financial Services IT is part of the Digital Core Department at IT and its responsibility is to provide sustainable IT solutions and innovative IT expertise within the Financial Services area, thus one of our group’s primary purposes is together with FS to harmonize the global IT landscape.

So what is the plan?
We want to bring you and some other fantastic new IT colleague to our new group to support the transformation of our high-performance agile teams that consist of architects, developers, service managers, and some other stars that makes this constellation pretty special. The ultimate goal is to have happy users within all SFS communities who can use the power of software and data to make better decisions.

 

Your responsibilities as Lead Architect


• Lead architecture governance board and own architecture governance process, drive decision making
• Produce and maintain a high-level business IT target for the FS domain in collaboration with business representatives, IT lead architect network, and EA functions
• Ensuring that functionality is reused and that company-wide architecture principles and guidelines for standards are followed in the technical architecture
• Develop architecture management framework, models, and blueprints, to guide in the design and deployment of solution architecture
• Research and identify current and future technology trends, services, industry standards, and technology architecture viewpoints to address stakeholders' concerns
• Facilitate the reuse of ideas, applications, components, and proven patterns; within the FS domain
but also across the enterprise by collaborating with other Lead architects of the extended EA function


Your profile as Lead Architect
As a person, you are a driven architect who will support us in building and leading a new Architecture team. You have the ability to lead and guide your colleagues in the right direction, and good at collaborating with business colleges and other Solution architects to establish a flexible and future-proof IT landscape. You are self-confident and not afraid to question the organization and us. By being fearless, you also lead by example in creating and keeping an exploratory work environment where we all feel free to try new things. The right person has a strong will to deliver good results with good quality within set timelines. Other basic qualifications needed;


• Experience working with cloud & hybrid solutions
• Understanding business requirement needs, new technologies, and setting up/maintaining integrations
• Previous experience in leading teams
• Broad architecture diagramming capabilities, and data management
• Ability to constructively challenge ideas and design approaches
• Good communication and analytical skills
• English language skills both oral and written

What do we offer?
Besides amazing colleagues, we offer you remarkable development opportunities while working in a team, that takes having fun seriously. Other benefits that might give you an extra tickle are a company car, performance bonuses, a pension plan, flexible working hours, lunch at reduced prices, and much more. Scania has a relaxed view and approach to the working place and focuses more on achievements. We also offer a direct bus from central Stockholm to Södertälje with Scania Job Express.

Does this sound interesting to you? Please apply no later than 15th January 2022 by sending in your CV, the cover letter is optional. A background check will be conducted on the final candidate.

We are really looking forward to your application!

 

Scania is a part of Traton Group and one of the world´s leading manufacturers of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications. Scania is also leading provider of industrial and marine engines. Service-related products account for a growing proportion of the company´s operations, assuring Scania customers of cost-effective transport solutions and maximum uptime. Scania also offers financial services.
Scania’s IT organisation is an integrated part of the company providing products and services to all business units worldwide. Based on deep Scania business knowledge and internal relations we balance in-house core competences and service production with services externally sourced and governed by us. We are around 1500 people and the majority is located in Sodertalje.