Senior Solution Architect

Traditionally, bearings are purchased on price. This transactional approach however ignores many interrelated elements, which contribute to rotating equipment performance and overall total cost of ownership. In response to these challenges, we have created the offer we call REP, Rotating Equipment Performance – an offer focused on improving the overall efficiency of our customers rotating equipment by combining our unique application insights, together with the right products, connected technologies and solutions.

Within our Digital Transformation Innovation organization, we are today about 60 people, with the task to deliver solutions that support our strategy and business needs. This newly formed organization will play a crucial part in developing the digital landscape together with other departments who are executing different parts of the decided solutions. Our mission is to create an open, fun and innovative organization with the aim to change the future, where we support each other and work together to secure our organization’s and SKF’s progress.


Do you enjoy stepping out of the box and trying new ideas? Are you passionate about interacting with people? Do you thrive when getting to use your business mindset in combination with software development experience?

Then you could be our next

Senior Solution Architect


As such, you will be responsible for designing solutions for different business needs and understanding gaps and potentials in our current digital landscape. You have a balanced mix of technical and business skills and will often work with other architects when designing solutions.


Key responsibilities
Understand the desired business outcome and define solutions to meet those, in collaboration with different areas within SKF
Understand the business' processes in order to create a cohesive vision of a usable product
Assess the digital landscape and architecture currently in place and work with different functions on how to enable solutions to business needs
Assess the business impact that certain technical choices have
Present how technology can be used to solve a given business problem
Continually research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed
Investigate which framework, platform, or tech-stack can be used to create a solution
Describe how the application/solution will look, what the modules will be, and how they interact with each other
Consider and describe how things will scale for the future and how they will be maintained
Figure out the risk in third-party frameworks/platforms
Provide guidance to development organizations


You will connect with your colleagues to support and coach them, as well as with the leadership team of Digital Transformation Innovation to plan coming tasks. Participation in different project meetings and demos are also common activities.


Knowledge and experience required
University degree, preferably computer science or related field
Solid experience from complex enterprise architectures including connectivity solutions, embedded systems and other business relative systems
Experience in defining solutions to business needs
Hands-on experience in developing software products
Leadership capabilities with ability to engage with others
Experience in agile development, preferable scaled agile
Fluency in English, other language skills are meriting
Open to travel if needed for specific activities


Meritorious
Knowledge within AWS or other Cloud providers
Knowledge and/or experience in microservices architecture
Knowledge and/or experience in data management
Experience from different industries (automotive, heavy industries or others)
Experience of working with digital transformation in a global company




You will enjoy working here if
You like to work in an innovative environment with focus on high speed in delivery. You are a team player that is driven by the interaction of team members as well as stakeholders. You have high integrity and the ability to build relationships with people on all kind of levels in different organizations. You are self-motivated, have strong drive and an action-oriented mind-set with high sense of personal accountability. You have a willingness to learn and support others to learn.


We offer you
A job in an international environment
To work at an entrepreneurial and agile department
To be a part of driving digital transformation within SKF
To be a part of a diverse team where you face exciting challenges and varied tasks



This position is global and will require frequent collaboration and networking via Teams, telephone and e-mail. Occasional travelling may be necessary.

For information and questions regarding the recruitment process please contact Patrik Schultzén, Recruitment Expert at SKF, +46 31 337 12 70 or Patrik.Schultzen@skf.com

How to apply
If you are interested and meet the above requirements, please submit your application with a CV in English no later than the 21st of October 2020.