Company description

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 around 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming lives through innovation for over a century. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within a generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.

About the role

Vattenfall is recognized as one of the pioneers in the energy transition and through that we enable climate-smarter lives for all our customers.

However, our investment power, our innovation and our ambitious agenda to become fossil-free in one generation can only be achieved if we can rely on reliable and competitive production from our nuclear power plants. To meet this challenge, we are investing in our people and continue to hire exceptional IT talent. Together with our team, we are driving Vattenfall Nuclear to become a data-driven company, enabling them to optimize decision-making and investment planning.

This means that we design

• Our enterprise resource planning and logistics solutions on SAP S/4HANA
• An integrated and hybrid SAP and surrounding system environment consisting of multiple instances (cloud and on-premises)
• Solutions that are critical to the Swedish infrastructure and society and regulated under the Security Protection Act (2018:585)
• Full IT/OT collaboration to ensure frictionless transfer of data in (near) real-time to support predictive maintenance use cases
• IT infrastructure and solutions that have high security, scalability and reliability
• Strategic solutions/environments to optimize nuclear maintenance strategies

Our team needs skilled solution architects with a business focus; You know how to use technology to make nuclear power run like clockwork, you act as a timekeeper to ensure we reach our ambitious goals and be a warning bell if we can do even better! We have an extensive SAP and Microsoft presence, with over 20,000 users in six countries.

Our Group IT Architecture team, consisting of 30 Enterprise/Solution Architects, is involved in around 100+ key projects simultaneously and focuses on enterprise architecture and solution architecture for all of Vattenfall's business units. We act as the hub to understand the business needs and to see the bigger picture for Vattenfall and help our teams to confidently adopt tomorrow's technologies.

Your main responsibilities:

• You will participate in major strategic projects to guide them to successful execution based on appropriate architecture.
• You will advise and educate the nuclear business on SAP, IT strategy, integration strategy, data strategy and SAP strategy, etc.
• You have a solid understanding of IT security and will support the nuclear plants in appropriate adaptations.
• You will have (or build up) knowledge in nuclear and SAP to become the main contact person to promote their journey with S/4.
• You will help us develop our Enterprise thinking and establish standards and architecture principles.

You will be our trusted advisor to our nuclear plants and other business areas to enable their operating model through technology - even if it means radical change!

Requirements

Our ideal candidate:

We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect with hands-on experience in SAP Solution Architecture, preferably (in previous assignments) as an SAP Architect in the water or energy supply, manufacturing or automotive industry.

You feel comfortable communicating with both IT and non-IT colleagues at different levels of the organization. You thrive in a constantly changing environment. In addition, you have:

• An academic degree in IT or related field
• You speak Swedish and English - Experience with Enterprise architecture and frameworks in an international environment
• You have in-depth technical knowledge of SAP and general IT knowledge
• You have worked in a capital intensive industry and understand security aspects, IEC 62443, ISO27001, etc.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Well Architected Framework
• Ability to produce enterprise-ready architecture documents and to translate complex problems into concise actions for a board.
• And we love architects who talk business and know TOGAF, rather than those who talk TOGAF and know business...

Location: For this position you are expected to be based in Sweden with willingness to travel regularly to the office (Stockholm, Solna). Occasionally there may also be travel to key nuclear sites, such as Ringhals, Forsmark, Oskarshamn or team meetings in Amsterdam and Berlin. You will be expected to travel approximately once a month for two days to these locations.

Our offer:

• Become part of a massive transformation mission - not just on paper, but in reality - where you can influence the outcome!
• We offer a challenging and international working environment and the opportunity to work with some of the best in the field.
• You will work in a multidisciplinary team with other experienced IT architects - we do this together!
• A professional environment where your experience, knowledge and attitude will take us a step further and the opportunity for you to grow further.
• A central office location with good communication facilities.
• A healthy work-life balance (smart work) and time to develop your profession.
• At Vattenfall you will have the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that strives to create fossil-free energy within a generation.
• And last but not least: an international and multicultural working environment with energetic and motivated colleagues who also like to have fun!

More information: We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via our website no later than July 31, 2023. For information about the position, please contact Recruitment Manager Emile Das, +31 6 5250 4359. For more information about the recruitment process, please contact Recruiter Folmer Koper +31 6 38710915.

We at Vattenfall are convinced that striving for diversity helps us build a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to strive for a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural background.