Network Architect

Job description

As an IT Architect, you will have the opportunity to work in several exciting areas based on your knowledge, interest and ambitions for development. We believe in "on the job training", where you will have the opportunity to work with driven and talented people, both in the immediate network group but also in other constellations within the service area Infrastructure, and in this way develop both personally and together with other colleagues. You will work closely with the various network teams to jointly develop both new and existing services.

As an IT Architect in Connectivity, you will be involved in creating and designing our future technical platform with a focus on cloud connectivity. To thrive with us, you like to switch between different views and combine strategic thinking with operational action. As an IT Architect, you are responsible for ensuring that IT solutions are designed and implemented correctly according to regulatory and business requirements and in relation to other IT solutions. You ensure that the company-wide architectural principles and guidelines, around standards, are followed in the technical architecture and you make conscious choices to create maximum value for the business.

Your main tasks will be:

• Analyze requirements and needs

• Ensure that IT supports business goals

• Design solution proposals for Network that meet customer needs

• Develop target architecture and basis for roadmap and service portfolio

• Create basis for technical investments based on roadmaps

• Act as an expert and support service managers/service owners and Line managers

• Create decision-making data for both business decisions and technical choices

• Define principles and standards

• Ensure that requirements, regulations, laws, processes, standards and policies are complied with

• Document solutions

• Present and communicate solutions to different target groups and in different forums

• Coordinate architectural areas

- Business

- Information

- Infrastructure

- Security

Required skills and education

Skills

Your profile

We are looking for someone who has the ability to switch between detail and the whole. You can communicate and explain scenarios to different target groups. You like to take charge and can manage your own work, in return you will be given free rein to solve the tasks you are faced with in the best possible way. You are not pretentious and are used to working in a team where you share knowledge and get help from each other.

You are a Cloud Network Architect with a traditional networking background but with experience/knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity. Experience with Azure Virtual WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, SD-WAN and Zero Trust architecture. Responsible for the design, governance and strategic development of global network infrastructure with a focus on secure, scalable and automated connectivity between data centers, cloud platforms and users.

To thrive in the role, we see that you have:

• Relevant academic degree or equivalent experience

• Previous experience working in the infrastructure area and IT architecture at multiple levels

• Has broad knowledge in Infrastructure with deep knowledge/experience of networks

• Very good knowledge of Swedish and English

• Work with landscapes based on solutions in-house/on-premises (On-premises)

• SD-WAN solutions, Cloud solutions (Azure, AWS) and automation.

• Cloud networking/connectivity

• Work with larger infrastructure solutions or service design

Education

Relevant academic degree or equivalent experience