Solution Architect

Bertelsmann is a media, services and education company that operates in about 50 countries around the world. It includes the broadcaster RTL Group, the trade book publisher Penguin Random House, the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr, the music company BMG, the service provider Arvato, the Bertelsmann Printing Group, the Bertelsmann Education Group, and Bertelsmann Investments, an international network of funds.

Arvato offers customers payment solutions that make everyday life simpler!
Our solutions contribute to a flexible and customer-friendly payment alternatives, offering customers the opportunity to choose when and how they want to pay for a purchase. Delivering a trustworthy and positive shopping experience, both for retailers and end customers makes us proud but not content. Our ambition is higher and now we have a great opportunity for a Solution Architect to join our growing team based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Just to give you a quick insight, our tech department has over 100 developers structured into 15 domain teams. The Solution Architect work closely with product experts, designers, and other roles as needed, so that each team can assume full responsibility for their specific products. The team gets the freedom to make their own decisions regarding product, technology, and process. To you as a Solution Architect this offers the time required to focus on your craft, and lots of room to shape what we ship.
A fast delivery cycle with frequent releases provides fast feedback and creates an environment for development and learning. Our ambition is to give you the best possible start with us with the opportunity to grow yourself. Your closest managers have a lot of hands-on experience, and take the time to set a development plan that suits just you. Our company-wide community is also there to help you learn — and to learn from you.
At Arvato, you will have a flexible working day with the possibility to work remotely.

About the role
We are looking for Solution Architect to join our Development Team .
A solution architect is responsible for the design and implementation of an end-to-end solution and its capabilities. As a Solution Architect you will work across all teams to ensure coherence and consistency of selected tools and frameworks. You guide the teams to define and develop the interfaces and services according to the selected enterprise architecture.
Solution architect tasks include e.g.:
* Analysis of current technologies used within the company and ways to improve them
* Finding and documenting solutions to business requirements
* Defining the shape and structure of the applications, and how they interact with each other
* Considering how solutions will scale and how they will be maintained
* Managing the risk in third-party dependencies
* Managing the complexity of the solution

As a solution architect you have also have the comprehensive development and architecture experience to fulfill these tasks. 
A Solution Architect at Arvato works with our clients and customers, product teams, and management to identify business requirements, defining the best service architecture to implement requirements, to monitor and verify that the implementation matches the expectations. 
Therefore, we think you have a solid combination of both people and process skills, that i.e. includes:
* Be proactive and forthcoming
* Able to negotiate a solution with various groups of people
* Able to understand and explain complex problems to all stakeholders in simple terms
* Be an agile leader


Is this you?
An architect at Arvato guide and coordinate the development teams to focus on and achieve business goals. We therefore think you have an extensive experience in developing IT and cloud infrastructure with a keen interest in and experience from software analysis, architecture, development, testing, security, and operations.
We also believe you have a degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering are fluent in English.

Apply now!
We are screening applications on an ongoing basis so don't wait with your application. Last day of application is the 2nd of September.

Who we are
Let's be honest, finance is complicated!
So we at Arvato Financial Solutions are proud to be guiding international as well as renowned local companies through the complex world of cash flows. Whether our customers sell shoes in e-commerce or offer telecommunications services, our services ensure efficient credit management for the best possible financial performance.
Our approximately 7,000 employees solve new challenges in payments and complex data riddles every day, and do so cleverly, analytically and with an eye for every little detail as that is our DNA. We are seeking colleagues who want to take an active part in this - whether they are young professional, IT specialists, data analysts, advisers, managers or lateral entrants. And thanks to our presence in around 20 countries with a focus on Europe and America, there will usually be the right job available nearby.
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