IT Solution Architect

1 week ago


Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden Essity Full time

About the Role

A Technical Leader is responsible for defining Reference Architectures, driving harmonization, simplification, and adaptation to best practices to achieve fully integrated solutions in a heterogeneous IT landscape. This role works with business partners, information architects, enterprise architects, business analysts, and external service providers to ensure new capabilities comply with the overall architecture across 2 or more domains.

As a Technical Leader, you will communicate with developers or tech leads to give direction and business stakeholders on why technical decisions are made. You will also build business cases to ensure accurate, optimal, and valuable architecture recommendations are made. This includes understanding the architecture impacts and consequences of different license models as well as the underlying business value and needs that drive the technology.

You will feel ownership and be responsible for the solutions you drive and know how to balance speed and quality in delivery. You will work with both internal and external partners and suppliers from multiple countries and cultures.

We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.

What You Will Do

  • Take a leading role in projects or other initiatives to ensure all requirements, including functional, integration, security, performance, quality, and operations are covered
  • Responsible to ensure that the architecture requirements for the development, execution, and operations are implemented as designed
  • Cooperate with other architects to ensure that the solutions and components work together to meet the objectives and work jointly to ensure collaboration between initiatives
  • Lead the IT Architecture analysis, design, and implementation, and ensure that policies and standards are followed in respective area
  • Validate requirements and obtain stakeholder buy-in for architecture designs
  • Create business cases, narratives, and assess architecture impacts for new/changed solutions and present to a broad stakeholder group from Business and IT
  • Identify and communicate any cross-area or cross-release issues that affect other project areas
  • Support development of architecture reference architecture, including standards and in management of exemptions
  • Actively seek out new technologies and trends and advocate for change within Essity

Who You Are

  • University degree in computer science, management information systems, or related discipline
  • More than five years of experience in IT development and business analysis in digital market-facing applications like eCommerce, content management, brand site development, loyalty, and mobile app business
  • Knowledge in user experience modeling, information design, and concept generation
  • Fluent in English, both written and oral
  • Knowledge of the SDL Tridion platform beneficial
  • Ability to travel

What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Our diversity makes us strong and creates an inclusive, inviting, and harmonious workplace where individuality is appreciated by everyone. For this reason, incoming applications are selected based on professional qualifications and working values regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual identity, nationality, disability, or age.

Collaborative and Caring Culture | Empowerment & Engaged People | Work with Impact and A Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning & Career Growth | Health & Safety Priority | Sustainable Value Together | Innovation | Sustainable Working Life | Total Reward

Collaborative and caring Work Environment | Empowerment | Job Impact | Work with a Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning and Development | Health & Safety | Social Responsibility | Innovation

Together, we are improving lives, every day.

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic, and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.



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