Lead Architect Operations to Stena Line

Are you an experienced architect with a strong business acumen that can provide us with an architectural vision across the enterprise?

Your everyday life
At Stena Line, we believe everything is connected. By bringing people and goods together, we enable businesses and societies to grow. As a company, we are on an exciting journey driven by technology and new digital habits, developing our business to create outcomes that matter to our customers. Our goal is to deliver seamless customer experiences in more relevant, accessible and sustainable ways. At Stena Line's Digital Transformation department, we are driving change by aligning people, processes and technologies across our company. If you want to be part of building something and truly make a mark that matters, this is an excellent opportunity!

Transformation Operations is responsible for the digital development of Stena Line’s Ship, Port and Terminal operation. Our portfolio is a mix of inhouse developments, new purchased systems and legacy systems that jointly improve efficiency, reduce fuel consumption, and creates an awesome customer experience.

The area has a wide mix of OT and IT systems and the focus of the coming years is to integrate and develop internal as well as external system into innovative solution that will drive our business forward and provide a solid foundation for increased automation and support the transition into autonomous systems.

What will you do?
As Lead Architect your main responsibility will be to plan, design, support and govern implementations in the Operations domains to achieve our future target landscape across Cloud, on premise COTS and in-house developed applications. It will be your mission to determine the right design of applications and platforms to support the strategy while making sure our architecture principles are applied appropriately. Sounds like fun, right?! It is. And challenging.

You will report to and work in close collaboration with the Head of Technology & Architecture and be part of a team working on multiple initiatives across the department.

Some of your key responsibilities:

- Efficiently utilize your extensive experience and competence in delivering efficient and secure integration solutions on the appropriate platforms
- Take lead on design, support documentation and implementation of multiple simultaneous projects by collaborating with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintain close working relationships with the other Transformation departments and their architecture functions, IT Security relevant Group IT functions to ensure successful deliveries within established boundaries and in line with the overall target architecture(s) and governance structure.
- Support in further developing and evolving Stena Line’s EA strategy
- Capacity to act with integrity and safeguard the overall IT & Integration strategy and escalate concerns to relevant functions.
- Assist the teams in translating organisational needs into technical requirements or solutions, while constantly evaluating and balancing cost versus value.

You are
At Stena Line your personality matters as much as how good you are at what you do. We are looking for someone with a strong strategic background, with great leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, technology and their challenges. With your outstanding problem-solving skills and analytical mind-set, you will be a real contribute to the business. You work well independently and have experience leading decision-making in a complex organizational environment. You have an ability to both build and nurture relationships across the business and provide strategic support in your area of expertise. Your excellent communication skills are well demonstrated, both verbal and written as well in creating technical documentation.

Qualifications

- Significant experience from software architecture or design of relevant technology projects in an international company and a marine/logistic environment
- Experience from mapping enterprise architectures through solution and technical architectures
- Experienced in Cloud strategies and migrations, DevOps and Security covering both Infrastructure and Applications tiers
- Experience making architecture decisions across multiple business systems and across a broad enterprise landscape ranging from Business/Application/Infrastructure architecture
- Good knowledge of Enterprise Application Integration, Micro Services architecture, SOA, API Architecture including extensive familiarity with Integration Patterns.
- Experience/knowledge of Enterprise Architecture and preferably relevant certification (TOGAF/IAF/ArchiMate/…) are meriting.
- Fluent in English, written and spoken.
- Experience from marine and/or logistic industry is meriting.

Want to learn more?
This is a full-time, permanent position based in Gothenburg within Stena Line´s Digital Transformation department. We are collaborating with Sigma Recruit in this recruitment. For more information, please contact Patrik Jensen at patrik.jensen@sigma.se, +46 70 237 57 34. We look forward hearing from you!