Enterprise Architect

About the job

Vattenfall is recognized as one of the first movers in the energy transition – and by that power climate smarter living for all our customers.

Yet, our investment power, innovation, and ambitious change agenda to become fossil free in one generation, can only be met if we invest in Vattenfall being an high-performance organization. We do this by employing exceptional talent (to which we can hopefully welcome you), but also continuously challenging our operating model and business processes.

This means rethinking what it means as Vattenfall to repurpose

• from a country orientation to flexible and international processes

• from security policies to security-by-design

• from 100% owned by Vattenfall, to also joint ventures around the globe

• from stable business models to power multiple business models

Such an organization requires true Enterprise Architects; You know how to use technology to make Vattenfall run as clockwork, you act as timer to ensure we meet our ambitious goals and be an alarm if we can do better! We have a large SAP and Microsoft footprint, with more than 20.000 users in 6 countries.

You will join the Group IT Architecture team of around 30 architects involved in around 100+ key projects at any time, focusing on enterprise architecture and solution architecture Vattenfall wide. We act as the ‘spider in the web’ to understand business needs and to see the bigger picture to help our teams securely adopt the technologies of tomorrow.

Your main responsibilities:

• Guiding, governing, and designing our Enterprise Solutions (a multiyear program to our Next Generation ERP and organisational transformation)

• You will help us grow our Enterprise thinking and establish standards and architecture principles.

• You will be our trusted advisor towards our different business area’s to enable their operating model by technology – also if that is that means radical change!

Your profile

We are looking for a seasoned Enterprise Architect, that has hands-on experience with large scale enterprise transformations.  Preferably you have worked as Enterprise Architect,  Principal Consultant or Program Manager in the domains of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset Management or Billing and Sales (IS-U).

You feel comfortable communicating with both IT and non-IT colleagues on different levels in the organization. You enjoy being in an ever-changing environment. Furthermore, you bring:

• An academic degree in IT or related study

• Experience with Enterprise Processes, Asset Management or Sales and Data Modelling

• Experience in an international corporate environment preferably with SAP

• Skills to produce enterprise ready architecture documents

• Skills to direct complex problems into concise Management Board action

• And we love architects  talk business and know TOGAF, rather than those that talk TOGAF and know business …

Location

for this position you can choose to be based in Sweden (Stockholm, Solna); The Netherlands (Amsterdam) or Germany (Hamburg, Berlin). Although most work is being done virtually, you will be expected to travel approximately a few days per month between these locations.

Additional information

Our Offer

• Become part of a massive transformative purpose – not on paper, but in real-life – whereby you can influence the outcome!

• We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.

• You will work in an interdisciplinary team with other senior IT Architects – so we do this together!

• A professional environment where your experience, knowledge and attitude will bring us one step further and the opportunity for you to grow further.

• A central office location with easy access by public transport.

• Furthermore, a healthy work-life balance (smart working) and time to develop your profession

• At Vattenfall you get the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.

• And last but not least; International and multi-cultural work environment with energetic, motivated colleagues that like to have fun as well!

More information

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via our website no later ten January 31st 2023. For information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Emile Das, +31 6 5250 4359. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Recruiter Folmer Koper +31 6 38710915.

At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

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.

About the company

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.