Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact - ...
Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact - and your part matters.
Your role
We are looking for an experienced and driven Senior IT Architect to join our cross-functional team, Onboard Security & IT Architecture.
In this role, you will play a key part in shaping and governing the IT architecture across Saab's naval platforms, including submarines and surface ships. You will operate in a highly complex, mission-critical environment, working with a wide range of interconnected systems-both developed in-house and externally procured.
As a senior architect, you will be part of a team of architects that lead and drive architectural decisions, ensuring that onboard IT solutions are robust, secure, and aligned with both operational requirements and long-term strategic direction.
You will collaborate closely with system engineering teams, stakeholders, and project management to ensure cohesive and future-proof IT solutions across multiple projects and platforms.
Your main responsibilities:
Drive and lead IT architecture design, development, and verification
Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps
Ensure alignment between IT architecture, operational needs, and system requirements
Review, challenge, and approve technical solutions from an architectural perspective
Support and guide system engineers and development teams throughout the product lifecycle
Create and maintain architectural documentation (e.g. descriptions, guidelines, and policies)
Contribute to technical governance and continuous improvement of architecture practices
The position is based at one of our centrally located offices in Lund or Karlskrona, with occasional travel within Sweden and internationally.
Your profile
You are a senior and collaborative IT professional with strong communication skills and the ability to engage with stakeholders across disciplines. You thrive in complex environments and are confident in driving technical direction and influencing decisions.
You combine strategic thinking with hands-on understanding and have a proven ability to translate requirements and analysis into robust, scalable, and secure architecture solutions.
You are also a team-oriented colleague who contributes to a culture of openness, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
Required qualifications
A university degree in IT, engineering, software, or a related field (or equivalent extensive professional experience)
Extensive, proven experience working as an IT Architect in complex and distributed environments
Deep knowledge of IT architecture principles, methods, and best practices
Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and govern large-scale IT solutions
Strong experience translating business and system requirements into technical architectures
Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, both verbal and written
Desired qualifications
Experience working in defense, aerospace, or other security-critical environments
Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles and secure system design
Experience with distributed, mission-critical, or real-time systems
Familiarity with architecture frameworks and tools
Experience integrating heterogeneous systems (in-house developed and COTS)
Experience working in complex product development environments
Knowledge of networking, virtualization, and modern IT infrastructure technologies
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
Please note that the selection process will begin in Week 34, starting after August 14.
What you will be a part of
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.
Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here.
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We are now looking for a Senior IT Security Architect who wants to play a key role in helping our customers build resilient, modern, and business-aligned security architectures. With us, you will work at the forefront of cybersecurity alongside some of the industry’s leading specialists — in a company with a strong expert profile, a solid culture, and international reach.
This role is for someone highly senior who understands that good security architecture is not only about controls and technology, but about creating customer value: reducing risk, enabling transformation, supporting compliance, improving decision-making, and building solutions that remain effective over time.
You are expected to take ownership of the bigger picture, challenge stakeholders at the right level, build trust in executive-level discussions, and at the same time possess sufficient technical depth to make sound architectural decisions.
Example of responsibilities:
Lead and drive security architecture initiatives in complex customer environments
Develop target architectures, current-state assessments, gap analyses, and transformation roadmaps
Advise customers on Zero Trust strategy and architecture, including identity-centric security, segmentation, least privilege, continuous verification, and secure access
Design security architectures for hybrid environments, datacenters, networks, identity, endpoints, applications, and cloud services
Support customers in architectural matters related to AWS, Azure, and GCP
Ensure that security solutions support business objectives, risk management, and regulatory requirements
Facilitate workshops, lead design decisions, and prepare decision-making material for both technical and business-oriented stakeholders
Act as a strategic advisor to CISOs, IT leadership, architecture boards, and projects/programs
Contribute to the continued development of our offerings, methodologies, and best practices within security architecture
Your Profile
We are looking for someone clearly senior, with many years of experience in security architecture, complex IT environments, and advisory work toward customers or larger internal organizations. You are confident in your expertise, comfortable taking ownership, and capable of connecting technology, risk, and business value.
We believe you have:
Extensive experience working as a Security Architect, Enterprise Architect with a security focus, or a similar senior advisory role
Strong understanding of security architecture across several of the following areas: Zero Trust, IAM/PAM, network security, cloud security, hybrid architecture, endpoint security, application security, data protection, and logging/monitoring
Proven experience translating security requirements and risks into concrete architectural decisions and actionable plans
The ability to lead workshops, facilitate decisions, and build alignment between technical and business stakeholders
Strong consultative skills and a deep understanding of how security creates customer value
Experience working with strategies, target architectures, governing principles, reference architectures, and roadmap initiatives
Good understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
Meritorious Qualifications
Certifications such as CISSP, SABSA, CISM, CCSP, TOGAF, Azure/AWS Security certifications, or similar
Experience from regulated industries or critical infrastructure environments
Knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, or similar
Experience with SASE/SSE, microsegmentation, identity federation, or modern access control
Experience supporting customers in large-scale transformation initiatives or security programs
Why Orange Cyberdefense?
There are many employers within IT and security. But few are as clearly focused on cybersecurity as we are. At Orange Cyberdefense, you do not just get a new assignment — you become part of an environment where your expertise is taken seriously, continuously developed, and applied where it makes the greatest impact.
With us, you will:
Work in a dedicated cybersecurity company with deep specialist expertise and a strong market position
Be close to some of the industry’s most complex and interesting assignments, where security is business-critical
Collaborate with highly experienced colleagues in architecture, advisory, SOC, incident response, offensive security, and managed services
Continuously develop through training, certifications, knowledge sharing, and professional exchange
Make a real impact — both in customer engagements and in how we develop our services and ways of working
Work in a Challenger culture where initiative, accountability, and ideas are encouraged
Have colleagues who are passionate about cybersecurity, support each other, and generously share knowledge
Contribute to something bigger: building a safer digital society
About the Company
At Avaron, you get the security of permanent employment combined with the variety of working at different customers. We place specialists across everything from tech, IT and industry to project management and business support – and whatever the assignment, you have a consultant manager who is there for you and your development.
About the Role
You will shape a governed self-service data platform in a complex global retail environment where centrally managed reporting, domain-owned data products, and enterprise integration need to work together. The focus is on building the architecture capability for a self-service data platform and creating the patterns, guardrails, and target-state decisions that help teams scale with control. You will work closely with stakeholders across data, platform, governance, security, IAM, cloud, and domain teams, while also supporting a reporting organization working with Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. This is a strong opportunity to influence platform direction, governance, and architecture choices in a modern data landscape.
Job DescriptionYou define and evolve the target-state architecture and platform guardrails for the self-service data platform.
You guide architecture decisions in Microsoft Fabric across Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Dataflows, notebooks, semantic models, APIs, and integrations.
You create reusable patterns for workspaces, environments, capacity, tenant setup, deployment, and lifecycle management.
You shape data-product patterns covering layering, data contracts, metadata, lineage, versioning, and consumption standards.
You design governance approaches for catalog strategy, quality frameworks, federated governance, and platform controls.
You define integration patterns for APIs, batch, events, CDC, D365, Dataverse, and legacy-source connectivity.
You support secure access models, environment separation, retailer segregation, and identity patterns.
You assess when Microsoft Fabric is the right fit and when other platforms or tools, such as Databricks, should be considered.
You contribute architecture reviews, Architecture Decision Records, and technical guidance across both the platform and reporting domains.
RequirementsStrong and demonstrable data-platform architecture experience, including ownership of scalable platform designs rather than only individual solutions or pipelines.
Strong Microsoft Fabric, Azure data-platform, or equivalent modern cloud data-platform experience with a clear transfer path to Fabric.
Deep understanding of lakehouse architecture, data warehousing, data modeling, and data-product patterns.
Strong understanding of governance, security, IAM, lineage, metadata, and operational requirements at design level.
Experience with integration patterns including APIs, batch, events, CDC, and legacy-source connectivity.
Proven ability to create, communicate, and defend Architecture Decision Records with senior stakeholders.
Ability to define standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns that delivery teams can adopt.
Minimum approximately eight years of data-platform experience with demonstrable platform-level architecture ownership.
You communicate clearly in English.
Nice to haveExperience with Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, or Synapse.
Experience with Microsoft Purview, including catalog, Data Map, lineage, and governance tooling.
Knowledge of Fabric domains, workspace design, deployment pipelines, and tenant-level setup.
Experience from D365 F&O, Dataverse, CORE, or similar enterprise source systems.
Experience with data mesh, domain-owned data products, or federated governance.
Exposure to platform operations, observability, FinOps, and SLA or SLO design.
Experience from franchise, retail, or multi-entity data-segregation scenarios.
Relevant certifications such as DP-600, DP-700, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
What We OfferPermanent employment at Avaron AB
Occupational pension
Wellness allowance of SEK 5,000 per year
Application
Selections are made on an ongoing basis – apply as soon as you can.
Data Platform ArchitectMicrosoft FabricMicrosoft Azure
Shape the future of connected electronics as a System Architect. Join a team where your expertise in firmware and cloud integration drives innovation in Medtech and IoT, transforming complex requirements into reliable, high-performance systems.
About the role
You will take ownership of the system and software architecture for connected products, focusing on the intersection of low-level firmware and cloud backends. This role combines strategic decision-making with hands-on development in a collaborative environment.
You are offered
The opportunity to work on cutting-edge Medtech and IoT projects, taking a leading role in shaping the technical direction of complex, high-impact electronic products.
To take ownership of end-to-end system architecture for connected products, influencing both technical decisions and long-term product scalability across device and cloud layers.
To work closely with cross-functional teams and customers to translate complex requirements into robust, well-structured embedded and cloud-based solutions.
Work tasks
You will be responsible for the end-to-end technical design of embedded systems, ensuring high standards in documentation and architectural integrity from device to cloud.
Design system and firmware architectures for complex connected electronic products
Perform hands-on coding in C/C++ for embedded systems
Develop and maintain technical documentation and system visualizations
Lead technical discussions with customers to define product requirements
Oversee the integration between hardware devices and cloud platforms
Guide development teams as a technical lead without personnel responsibility
Implement CI/CD pipelines and version control strategies using Git
We are looking for
Minimum 6 years of experience in system architecture, embedded systems, or similar technical leadership roles
Advanced knowledge of C/C++ and Embedded Linux
Extensive experience with RTOS and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Strong background in system design and firmware architecture
Proficiency in Git and CI/CD methodologies
Background in Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering
Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
It is meritorious if you have
Experience within the Medtech industry
Knowledge of Nordic Semiconductor or NXP platforms
Familiarity with Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience with connectivity protocols like WiFi, Thread, or Zigbee
To succeed in the role, your personal skills are:
Goal oriented
Social
Orderly
Intellectually curious
Please note: Between mid-July and mid-August, our recruitment team will have reduced staffing. We are accepting applications as usual, but the process and our response times may take longer than usual during this period.
Our recruitment process
This recruitment process is handled by Academic Work and it is our client’s wish that all questions regarding the position is directed to Academic Work.
Our selection process is continuous and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the next phase. The process includes two tests: one personality test and one cognitive test. The tests are tools to find the right talent for the right position, to enable equality, diversity, and a fair process.
