Business Platform Architect

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 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 Europe has launched a business transformation program: North Star Program Common Core. The objective of the program is to transform and unify organization and processes in all European countries by new common platform enabler. The program was launched 3 years ago, and it has now entered a new phase to manage the roll-out in upcoming countries as we have already gone live in number of countries.

As a Platform Architect, focusing on ERP, you will be a part of the North Star Program Architecture team with the responsibility to enable a successful program delivery. Your work will directly influence our technology strategy and the achievement of our business goals.

Your responsibilities:

• Architecture Leadership – you will be responsible for the architecture in the ERP domain, overseeing its development and implementation together with teams and individuals.
• Defining target architecture – you will create a clear and well-defined target architecture for your domain, ensuring it aligns with business goals and is implementable.
• Roadmap creation and updates – you will regularly update the architecture roadmap to ensure alignment with the target architecture and business priorities.
• Leading architectural activities – you will lead architecture-related activities in your domain, making key decisions and providing expert technology guidance.
• Domain expertise – you will provide expertise for business plans, roadmaps, feasibility studies, and design workshops, helping guide strategic planning and solution design.
• Setting and enforcing standards – you will create, maintain, and implement architecture standards and reference architectures, ensuring consistency across the organization.
• Shaping project architectures – Your architectural designs will lead projects or change initiatives, ensuring they adhere to standards and meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Governance of solution design – you will oversee that the solutions being developed conform to the architecture and meet agreed-upon standards.
• Architecture reviews – you will lead and participate in architecture assessments and reviews, ensuring the highest quality of technology solutions.
• Technology life cycle management – you will be involved in managing the life cycle of technology and solutions within your domain.

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

Requirements:

• 10+ years of working experience within Architecture and the broader IT industry.
• 5+ years of relevant & documented experience of Domain Architecture responsibility.
• Experience of driving change, leading an architecture roadmap and collaborate across company functions.
• Experience in leading an architecture roadmap agenda and collaborate cross functionally at all levels of an organization.
• Oracle ERP experience.
• 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 work with a positive and open approach.
  
• Strong communication skills.

Working conditions

Please note that the anticipated start date for this role is at the beginning of 2026. While the position is not immediately available, we encourage interested candidates to submit their applications in advance. CV reviews and potential candidate outreach may begin in late autumn 2025. We appreciate your interest and look forward to connecting with you

Location: Role is open for candidates in Sweden.

Working model: Hybrid, traveling across European countries is required approx. once a month.

If you are the One who can bridge the gap between technology vision and business needs, we would love to hear from you