Securitas Group

Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.

With around 341 000 employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world’s best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.

Securitas vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner through being client centric, data driven, and people focused. To achieve this vision, Securitas Group has an objective to transform and unify organizations and processes globally where integration is a key enabler.

As an Integration Platform Architect, you will be a part of the Securitas Group Integration Platform management team. Your work will directly influence our platform strategy and the achievement of our business goals while also giving you the opportunity to be hands on when need be.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Leadership – you will be responsible for the architecture in the integration area and will work closely with Securitas' architecture community and especially integration related Solution Architects supporting them with implementation related decision making.
• Defining target architecture – you will create a clear and well-defined target architecture and regularly update the architecture roadmap, blueprints and patterns to ensure alignment with the enterprise architecture and business priorities.
• Governance of integration architecture - you will oversee that the solutions being developed conform to the architecture and meet agreed-upon standards, lead and participate in architecture assessments and reviews, ensuring the highest quality of technology solutions. Sometimes you may need to step in to coach and support the integration developers.
• Community of practice – you will host a community where logical integration approaches, best practices and knowledge are shared across multiple teams and different integration technologies
• Integration Platform as a Service domain expertise – you will provide expertise for business plans, roadmaps, feasibility studies, and design workshops, helping guide strategic planning and solution design.
• Platform life-cycle management – you are expected to lead the Integration Platform life cycle including infra and related service versions, security controls, etc.
• Monitoring – you will be responsible for monitoring solutions.
• Documentation – create and maintain up to date platform documentation.
• Administration – you will be key person involved in Platform administration, including among others access and permission management, platform cost management.
• Platform Security – you will be responsible for making sure that Integration Platform Is secured based on Securitas Security Principles, as well as industry best practices.

Your focus will be on the Integration domain in enterprise context, guiding both business and IT teams to make the best possible technology design and investment decisions, aligned with our strategies and company objectives.

Requirements

Technical skills

• 5+ years of working experience within Architecture and the broader IT industry.
• 5+ years of relevant & documented Architecture experience from the Integration Domain and experience of Integration Pattern definition as well as associated standards.
• Experience in driving change, leading an architecture roadmap and collaborating cross functionally at all levels of a complex organization.
• IT/IS architecture experience in an Enterprise Architecture context.
• In depth knowledge of creating and leading an Integration Domain architecture.
• Very strong technical integration background, preferably Azure based, and highly resilient integration design.
• Optional Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture framework like TOGAF.
• English language proficiency to business standards.

Soft skills

• Excellent strategic thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
• Pragmatic and persistent way of working with a positive and open approach.
• Strong communication skills.

Working conditions

Location: Role is open for Europe based candidates, preferably located in Sweden.

Working model: Hybrid

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 you're passionate about building high-quality integration solutions and enjoy working at the intersection of technology and business, we would be delighted to hear from you!