Enterprise Information Architect
Purpose
Securitas vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner through being client centric, data driven, and people focused. Our protective services help make your world a safer place.
IT is a key function supporting the capabilities of a modern and powerful IT technology needed to fulfil Securitas business strategy.
In Europe, our 400+ IT co-workers support digital products and services for clients and transforming and protecting our existing IT landscape, making sure colleagues all over the European Division can work efficiently in a modern IT environment.
The commitment to invest in technology to add new or enhance existing capabilities is very strategic for the company as a whole and is part of overall company strategy, which makes this a very important role. This is a key role in shaping the future of Securitas, coming together as one company from a local and distributed environment.
You will have a great opportunity to influence ways of working and key architectural decisions and choices. You will be involved in the large strategic projects and programs in a global setting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Your scope and focus is on the strategically important Enterprise Information Services Platform for the European Division (North Star programme) with the responsibility to guide and advice our business and IT teams into making the best possible technology investments and decisions based on our business strategy and agreed goals
- As an Enterprise Architect, in this senior role - you are part of the Group Enterprise Architecture function with the mission to turn business strategy into reality by providing:
- A clear SSE target architecture based on Business needs and priorities.
- A roadmap for the future to reach the target
- Sequencing options of the transformation roadmap
- Decision-making, consultative guidance and support
- Budget and assignment management of the NorthStar Architecture Team
- Leading and line managing of the Architecture team (including budgeting) within the Securitas Leadership framework: “Driving Performance”, “Making Strategy Happen” and “Developing Yourself & Others”
- Manage, control and coordinate design of North Star target state architecture across North Star projects and in alignment with other divisional and global initiatives
- Ensure the key architecture design decisions support the North star business objectives and align with Securitas Enterprise Architecture guardrails and principles
- Drive and coordinate design and maintenance the of future SSE data model across North Star projects
- Drive development of country specific target state, transitional architectures and decommissioning plans.
- Support development, maintenance, and execution of North Star Transformation Roadmap and country specific plans
- Act as a design authority to provide architectural steering and decision to the workstreams and rollout projects
- Support & Actively shape and establish enterprise architecture skills and ways of working across the NorthStar Architecture Team
- Work very closely with Programme Management & Service Delivery Manager and the rest of the platform team, projects, architects and external partners.
- Execute Country Roll out assessments to build up as-is and gaps the to-be target.
- Identify major dependencies within the scope of the Platform plus in Country rollouts
- Chair Country Assessment Forums. Form part of the Programme Design Authority.
- Abstract the complex integration landscape in a previously fragmented decentralized to identify critical path architecture choices and provide recommendations
Key Deliverable and KPIs:
Make sure that the Enterprise Information Services Platform fulfills the business objectives:
- Improve top and bottom-line results
- Improved business mix
- Efficiency and quality in the execution of our main processes freeing up time for value add activities with our clients.
- Continue to enhance our capability framework (aka. Business Platforms)
Key Partnerships:
North Star program actors:
- North Star Program management team – alignment on roadmap and priorities
- IT Product Managers – escalate priority conflicts when necessary
- Integration lead and integration architect - alignment on integrations development, dependencies and maintenance aligned to the SAD
- Solution Design Architects – align on the enterprise architecture system and solution architecture description
- Business Architect – aligning on processes from a business standpoint to ensure a proper and lean user experience.
- Local /Country architects – communication on local systems and specificities
Other actors:
- Global architecture team – align on way of working and common procedures
- SSE IT leadership team – aligning on priorities and inform
Key Competences and Personal Skills:
- Broad Business knowledge and experience within business-outcome focused IT
- Excellent knowledge in Back-office systems and understand the importance of business and information architecture from an E2E business perspective
- Security or Service Business experience
- Strong understanding of Master Data Management
- Business process mapping and data modeling
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skill in a multi-cultural, geographically dispersed multi-organization team
- Highly structured and able to decide where and when to delegate.
- Ability to foster psychological safety in a critical programme.
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Fluent in English
Level of experience:
- 15+ years work experience of IT in general
- 10+ years of IT for ERP, Finance, Product Management, HCM and WorkForceManagement
- Enterprise Architecture framework like TOGAF - Lean IX knowledge (+)
- Experience of dealing with large, multi-year, multi-county, multi-application programme affecting critical business processes.
What we offer:
At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them a multitude of talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities.
If it all sounds good for you, don’t hesitate and apply!
- Department
- Securitas Group AB
- Locations
- Europe (flexible location)
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
We Make A Difference Every Day!
We work in an international, explorative, hands-on and dynamic business environment with customers and users in focus.
Our core values: Integrity, Vigilance and Helpfulness - are foundations that enable us to build trust with customers, colleagues, partners and our community.
We love going to work and doing what we do.
About Securitas
Securitas is a knowledge leader in security, that drives the industry forward. The security of the future is a combination of people, knowledge, technology and data. We call it Intelligent Security.
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