Team Architect

Team Architect, Waypoint
We are scaling up Waypoint, If’s largest digital investment; a digital platform built from scratch. A common platform for all services and business areas built on modern technology. Waypoint is If’s new digital insurance platform for the future, involving 200 employees working together in 15 cross-functional development teams in the Nordics and Latvia. Every single day, the focus is on finding smarter solutions for us and our customers.
We are now looking for a Team Architect to join our Policy Motor Team, based in Stockholm Bergshamra.
The role
To secure our architecture capabilities, all development teams in Waypoint will have their own Team architect. In our Policy Motor Team, we currently are looking for a senior developer that can take on the new role. As a Team architect you work both within your own team, as well as with other architects inside and outside Waypoint.
You will be:
Technical lead within the team
Responsible for application architecture and component design
Ensuring that implementation follows architectural principles, guidelines, and standards
Responsible for code quality, including code review process.
Ensuring that applications satisfy cross-WP operational and non-functional requirements.
Preventing new technical debt and ensuring that maintenance needs and technical debt are visible and prioritized
An important part of a Waypoint engineering body whose role is to promote best practice and common tools and ways of working.

We see that you as an architecture ambassador within the team understand and ensure adoption of platform capabilities. You also dare to raise perceived gaps with architecture rather than creating local solutions, as well as engages and work closely with Cluster Architect on all design work (incl business process & technical design).
Your team
The Policy Motor Team works within the distributed enterprise system with hundreds of integrations, maintaining and delivering API’s, front-end, infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline and other components. This includes integrations as well with some legacy systems. Our knowledgeable team members strive for a good code quality, solid design principles and other best patterns and practices. Thinking proactively and working in an agile mode is our way of reaching the goal. Our Azure cloud initiative is getting more and more attention as we want to move to the cloud as much as possible.
Who are you?
You are an experienced C# developer with at least 10 years’ experience within IT systems development.
You have spent a few years working as an Architect or Team Lead Engineer responsible for software design, team collaboration and coaching team members
You have spent a few years in a complex enterprise system working with multiple teams within distributed development environment
You clarify expectations for the engineering practices by providing the team with POCs for some solutions, sharing knowledge by presenting and demonstrations, giving feedback and helping team members when needed.
You are a collaborative team player with an agile mindset, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability.
You are self-driven, open minded and structured.

You also have:
Higher level education within IT.
Fluency in English, written and spoken.
Good communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.



Additional facts and recruitment process
To apply for the position: Please attach both your CV and a personal letter.
Work location: Stockholm, Sweden
Travelling: Expect some travelling in the Nordics
Start: As soon as possible/by agreement.
Additional information
For more information please contact John Hartman (john.frederick.hartman@if.no)
Read more about our Tech Community at www.if.se/tech
We look forward to hearing from you!
Background check
Final candidates will undergo a background check before a job offer can be presented.