Solution Architect

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


Technology cannot tackle the climate change. People knowing technology can.
Join us in building together a new IT landscape for our Asset Optimization and become part Vattenfall’s mission to enable fossil free living within one generation. We are looking for the brightest IT minds that want to join us in our journey towards fossil freedom, in the position as Solution Architect.
Within Vattenfall, Business Area Markets optimizes assets and effectively sources and trades commodities, thus ensuring best value for both Vattenfall and our customers. Our team is driving smart decision-making processes for various energy products. We are helping to maximize our business portfolio value by providing a system landscape that is reliable, secure, scalable and highly flexible to produce the clean power the world needs.
Your tasks and responsibilities
As Solution Architect you will be responsible for the analysis and design of solutions which will accelerate business development and that are compliant with Markets architectural and development guidelines. You will be translating requirements coming from the IT Business Analyst / users in cooperation with developers into solution designs. You will have a close cooperation with the Enterprise, Application and Project Architects, working towards our IT target architecture. Further you will be:
Creating an IT target architecture for the agile team Asset Nordic
Coordinating and guiding developers in execution phases.
Advising the IT Management in project portfolio related IT architecture questions.
Participating in a 24/7 on-call team for our business-critical applications





Qualifications


Who are we looking for?
Are you attracted by cutting edge technology and innovations? Perfect. We are looking for someone with an enthusiastic open mind that has great willingness to explore and learn. We believe that you have an entrepreneurial behavior and be passionate about developing yourself as well as our business. You are a collaborative team player and have a strong level of customer focus and communication, but you are also self-driven and not afraid of working independently.


Education, Experience and Skills
A relevant graduate degree, e.g., Bachelor in (Business) Information Technology, Engineering or other related field
3-5 years of overall IT software development and IT operations experience.
Language skills: English (proficient) Swedish (very benificial)
Experiences with micro service architecture, cloud ideally Azure and Kubernetes would be appreciated
Knowledge and experience with complex soft- and hardware solutions is beneficial
Excellent understanding of the market and business processes in the area of responsibility
Experience in IT planning and IT ITIL processes are beneficial
Experience in a Trading or Generation environment is beneficial

You will report to the Manager Optimization Infrastructure Nordic in Business Infrastructure, BU Operations, BA Markets.




Additional Information


About us
Business Area Markets is active across Europe with around 450 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Within BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.
Location: Solna, Sweden. Travel to other Vattenfall locations may occur.
For more information about the position, you are welcome to contact hiring manager Beata Lesniewski, tel. 0705 39 63 51. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Elnoosh Farhoudfar, tel. 0730 60 25 49,


Trade Union representatives in Sweden via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00. Sven-Gunnar Gremlin (Akademikarna) and Jens Morell (Unionen)
We welcome your application in English no later than December 4th, 2022. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information.


Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.