Lead Solution Architect – Core Technology Team

Storytel

Stories have the power to make the ordinary extraordinary. They help us think bigger, see beyond ourselves, and deepen our connection with others. As one of the world's leading audiobook and e-book streaming platforms, Storytel brings unlimited listening to millions of users across 25 markets. Driven by our purpose, "Leading the future of storytelling, we move the world through stories", Storytel Group inspires and entertains people around the world by blending innovation with tradition. We bring stories to life across various formats for everyone to discover. Anytime. Anywhere. Ready for your next chapter? We're looking for an IT Operations Specialist to join our team in Stockholm! ABOUT THE ROLE Do you want to architect, develop, and take technical ownership of modern cloud Digital Workplace platforms while remaining hands-on, managing daily operations and handling routine workplace IT tasks? The IT Operations team is currently scaling our responsibilities and operations. While Storytel’s core IT landscape is primarily built around Google Workspace and macOS, we are in an exciting phase where we are taking over the IT responsibility for companies within the group that mainly operate on Microsoft 365. We are looking for this role to act as the technical bridge for this expansion, which brings an exciting increase in technical complexity, multi-tenant environments, and global reach. In this role, you will step into a vital and highly versatile position. While your primary focus will be acting as our internal driver for MDM and Microsoft 365 governance, this is a broad role where you will manage and work across a wide array of different systems, applications, processes, and projects. Simultaneously, you will remain hands-on, supporting the team in daily operations and taking ownership of Workplace IT. Growth & Opportunities For an ambitious candidate who successfully takes ownership and elevates our MDM and M365 environments, there are great opportunities to gradually shape the role and dive deeper into specialized infrastructure engineering and governance as our landscape evolves. CORE RESPONSIBILITIES * MDM Evolution & Management: Take ownership of managing and developing our device management across our hybrid device fleet with Microsoft Intune and Jamf. You will architect, build, and maintain secure device configurations while also focusing on creating a great user experience with a distinct Storytel look and feel across all endpoints. * M365 & Identity Governance: Architect, configure, and manage our Microsoft 365 environments within a complex multi-tenant structure. These environments are tightly integrated with Okta as part of an advanced identity architecture, utilizing HRiS as a Source * SaaS System Administration: Daily administration, user lifecycle management, and optimization of various SaaS systems used and provided across the group. * IT Projects & Continuous Improvement: Actively lead and execute various internal IT projects. You will be a driving force behind onboarding new group environments and constantly leveling up our technical setup. * Vendor Management & Procurement: Manage relationships and contracts with external IT vendors, hardware suppliers, and SaaS providers. You will oversee software licensing, optimize procurement processes, and ensure we partner with the right external stakeholders. Operational & Workplace Responsibilities * Office & AV technology: Driving the continuous improvement and development of our office technology and meeting rooms, while overseeing daily operations and support * IT-Equipment Management: Managing IT equipment lifecycle operations (procurement, inventory logistics, and on/offboarding setups) for a device fleet consisting primarily of MacBooks, alongside an increasing number of Windows devices. * Daily IT-support: Handling a broad variety of daily support requests from our end-users, both on-site and remote. Ranging from complex technical troubleshooting to routine, autopilot tasks REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS * Technical Experience: At least 3–5 years of experience working within IT operations, modern workplace management, or system administration. * MDM & M365 Expertise: Proven experience configuring and administering Microsoft Intune (device configuration, compliance policies, deployment) and managing Microsoft 365 environments. Experience with multi-tenant setups is a major plus. * Hands-on IT Support: Solid experience handling day-to-day workplace IT, end-user support, and hardware lifecycle management. * Advanced Workstation & OS Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of both Windows and macOS ecosystems, naturally becoming the go-to person in the team for anything related to computer management and troubleshooting. * Bonus Platform Knowledge: Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and Jamf is a strong advantage. * Language: Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken. Who You Are To thrive in this position, we are looking for a specific mindset and personality. We believe you recognize yourself in the following: * Autonomous & Driven: You don't wait for instructions. You identify what needs to be done, set your own agenda, and drive your initiatives to completion with high energy. * AI-Forward & Efficiency-Minded: You have a strong understanding of how to leverage AI to optimize your work. Actively finding ways to integrate AI into our systems to automate processes is critical to your success in this role. * Genuinely Tech-Savvy: You love technology and are motivated by continuous improvement. You take great pride in delivering high-quality, stable, and well-structured solutions. * People-Centric & Service-Minded: You are a genuine "people person" who excels at building relationships. You will interact extensively with users both at the office and in various other contexts, making a highly service-oriented mindset and strong interpersonal skills essential. * Humble & Versatile (Prestigeless): You move seamlessly between high-level cloud architecture and helping a colleague with an urgent hardware issue. You are ready to work broadly and jump in wherever the team needs you most. * Process-Minded: You have a natural ability to see the bigger picture and design structured, scalable processes rather than relying on ad-hoc fixes. Location & Workplace We operate on trust, meaning you have the freedom to manage your own calendar, shape your week, and adjust your daily working hours to fit your life. Since a vital part of your role involves managing our physical office ecosystem and hands-on device troubleshooting, this role naturally relies on your physical presence at our Stockholm HQ on a daily basis. However, you will have autonomy over your daily calendar and how you pace your hours. What We Offer A role with high autonomy, immense learning potential, and the chance to leave your mark on a global IT infrastructure from day one. You will join a skilled team that values initiative, continuous learning, and having fun along the way. JOIN A WORLD OF STORIES At Storytel, we're a team of creative story lovers who thrive on collaboration and new ideas. Our workplace is friendly, dynamic, and full of opportunities to experiment and make an impact. We believe in trust, flat hierarchies, and empowering you to grow with us. Does this sound like your next story? Simply fill out the application form and share your CV or LinkedIn profile. Please include your portfolio with your application. Answer a few questions, and you're all set.

Securitas

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 322 000 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 IT Securitas vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner through being client centric, data driven, and people focused. Our protective services help make your world a safer place. In Europe, our 400+ IT co-workers support digital products and services for clients and transforming and protecting our existing IT landscape, making sure colleagues all over the European Division can work efficiently in a modern IT environment. IT is a key function supporting the capabilities of a modern and powerful IT technology needed to fulfil Securitas business strategy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Role overview 4 years ago, Securitas Europe has launched a business transformation program. The objective of this program is to transform our organization and processes in all European countries with new common platform enabler. We now enter a new phase to manage the roll-out in the different countries as we already have some countries live to support in the business-as-usual mode. Our goal is to leverage and centralize applications at the European level. To support this strategy, the Business Application IT team operates as a product‑oriented IT organization. Delivery is structured around: * Product Domains, accountable for product development and functional value. * Roll-out Projects, responsible for large-scale, multi-country deployments and product implementation. The Architecture tam acts as the design authority and architectural backbone for business application, ensuring coherence, consistency and sustainability of the European target IT architecture. The mission of the Architect within the Centre of Excellence is to translate business strategy into a coherent, secure and scalable IT architecture, supporting multi‑country roll‑outs while managing complexity and technical debt. We are seeking a skilled and experienced Enterprise Architect who can operate effectively in a complex, multicultural environment. In this role, you will be responsible for: * Defining and maintain European target architecture. * Governing all Architecture decisions for European application. You will manage a team of 4 people for the moment including Business architect, PMO support, Solution Architect for 2 main products Oracle and WFM. You will coordinate and manage additional external consultants depending of the roadmap management. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responsibilities Architecture Governance & Design Authority * Act as the design authority for Business Applications within the North Star scope. * Provide architectural direction and decision support to Product Domains and country roll‑out initiatives. * Review and validate major application, integration, and platform design decisions. * Ensure adherence to European and Group Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and guardrails. Target Architecture & Roadmap * Act as the design authority for Business Applications within the North Star scope. * Provide architectural direction and decision support to Product Domains and country roll‑out initiatives. * Review and validate major application, integration, and platform design decisions. * Ensure adherence to European and Group Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and guardrails. Country Roll‑out Support * Lead or support country-level architecture assessments (as‑is, to‑be, gap analysis). * Identify critical dependencies, constraints, and integration impacts for country deployments. * Chair or contribute to Country Assessment Forums and architectural design reviews. * Ensure architectural consistency and reuse across multi‑country roll‑outs. Data & Integration Architecture * Contribute to the definition and evolution of the enterprise data model. * Ensure coherence and robustness of data flows, integrations, and master data management. * Support end‑to‑end business process mapping from an architectural perspective. Collaboration & Ways of Working * Work closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Service Delivery, and AMS partners and business. * Contribute to the development of architecture standards, methods, and best practices. * Actively support the maturity of architectural ways of working across the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. * 10–15 years of IT experience. * Strong background in enterprise, application, and integration architecture. * Experience with large, multi‑year, multi‑country transformation programs. * Strong understanding of back‑office systems (ERP, Finance, HR, Workforce Management) and digitalisation. * Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF – LeanIX is a plus). * Structured, pragmatic, and decisive approach. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail. * Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic project environments. * Experience working in matrix organizations and with virtual teams. * Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to make informed decisions and execute effectively. * Strong people management and leadership skills. * Fluency in English. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Working conditions This role is open for candidates based in Europe. It's a hybrid working model (office regulations depending on the specific country). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What we offer At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them many talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities. If this sounds like the right next step in your professional career, don't hesitate and apply!

Securitas

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 322 000 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 IT Securitas is organized in a global IT function as well as four operational divisions each with its own IT/IS organization. Securitas is launching a new strategy in 2026 extending to 2030 with high focus on digitalization, data quality, enhanced solutions for clients and improving internal ways of working through automation and AI capabilities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the role The Client Engagement IT capabilities resides in the global IT function and the platform consists of three main areas: * The Client Excellence Platform (CEP), which is the central customer relationship management solution based on MS Dynamics, * The Public Web which encompasses Securitas global and country websites and underlying technologies and the DXP (Digital Experience Platform) which includes sales lead and marketing automation tools. The proximity of our IT services to businesses in the countries is a key factor in success for Securitas. In this context we are recruiting a Business Analyst for the Client Engagement platform. You will report to the Client Engagement director who is responsible for the Client Engagement global platforms and capabilities from an IT perspective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Responsibilities Business Analyst * Define, interpret, translate, analyze, and document business requirements into technical specifications ready for prioritization, commitment, and implementation. * Manage requirement proposals and mediate information from both IT and Business including documentation of flowcharts and processes using relevant tools. * Facilitate the process of prioritization and decision making. * Support business in demand and development to realize business value. * Support project managers in creating business cases by ensuring all high-level requirements are well defined. * Identify involved business and IT stakeholders to get valid input and validate business needs. Development/Solution * Provide technical understanding of the service for business users. * Design user experience and/or build test cases for non-standard solutions. * Support the demand for Service-related items in the service catalogues. Job specific tasks * Support the business in interpretation of business demand and converting these into IT requirements with supporting processes for implementation in the defined IT services for the business. * Develop and maintain IT services and relevant tools to realize business benefit and service continuity over time. * Guide the business towards use of defined IT services and architecture to promote re-use of existing services and adherence to long term IT architecture and roadmap. * Acting as pre-project manager and support in idea and pre-study phases of projects to support business needs and project initiation. * Work in close cooperation with project managers over the entire project delivery lifecycle to ensure solutions are delivered according to business needs and are taken into use after project completion. Key deliverables * Well defined business requirements ready for implementationServices delivered in alignment with business and enterprise architecture. * Support people in the business regarding development initiatives to realize business benefits and use of new services and solutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements * Minimum 4 years’ experience from working in the interaction between IT and business to enhance or develop existing or new services. * Business analyst skills include process mapping, writing requirements and defining user stories. * Working cross functional including geography. * Passion for great customer – end user services, scalability, security, and agility. * Strong communication skills acting as a bridge and interpreter between business and IT. * Fluent in English, written and spoken. * Proactive and solution-oriented approach to new tasks with a strong desire to deliver high quality solutions aligned with business needs. * Background as software developer, architect and/or project manager is a merit. * Competence on Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Azure and Devops is a merit * Business Analyst training and certifications is a merit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Working conditions This role is open for candidates based in Warsaw, Poland (Hybrid model) or Poland remotely (1 day per month You will need to visit Warsaw). Hybrid working model is applicable (2x per week from the office). It involves occasional international travel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What we offer At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them many talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities. If this sounds like the right next step in your professional career, don't hesitate and apply!