Senior IT Architect (Wind Business)

Senior IT Architect (Wind Business)

Role Overview

Provide senior architectural leadership for strategic and transformational initiatives across the onshore and offshore wind business. Shape fit-for-purpose, scalable and future-ready architecture across business, application, data, integration and technology domains. Work closely with business stakeholders, project teams, enterprise and solution architects, and domain experts to support growth, digitalisation and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support architecture activities for strategic wind-business initiatives and transformation programmes.
• Assess and shape business initiatives from an architectural perspective, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, target states and strategic objectives.
• Provide expert guidance on IT strategy, integration architecture, data architecture and management, digitalisation, cloud adoption, platform strategy, and IT/OT convergence.
• Translate business needs and technical constraints into practical architectural direction and clear recommendations for decision-makers.
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvement, standardisation and technology optimisation.
• Support architecture governance through reviews, assessments, decision forums and the controlled management of architectural risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate workshops and architecture discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote architecture best practices and contribute to the continued development of architectural capability within the wind-business domain.

Architecture Deliverables

• Target architectures and transition roadmaps aligned with enterprise standards and the future needs of the wind business.
• Solution overviews, architecture assessments, architecture decision records and governance materials.
• Architectural guidance for integration, APIs, data platforms, cloud and hybrid environments, and IT/OT interfaces.
• Clear recommendations covering scalability, security, maintainability, standardisation and long-term technology value.
• Architecture input supporting project delivery, transformation planning and long-term capability development.

Skills and Experience

• Approximately 5 to 10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture or a comparable senior architectural role.
• Proven experience within an asset-intensive sector such as energy, utilities, renewables, manufacturing, infrastructure, transportation or telecommunications.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and methods such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, SAFe or Zachman.
• Practical experience with integration architecture and API-based ecosystems, data platforms and governance, cloud and hybrid architectures, digital transformation, business capability modelling and application portfolio management.
• Experience operating within large, complex and international organisations.
• Ability to translate complex technical and architectural topics into clear business recommendations for management and senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder-management, facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across organisational and technical boundaries.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within renewable energy, utilities, wind power, offshore operations or energy-trading environments.
• Knowledge of IT/OT architecture and operational technology environments.
• Exposure to industrial IoT, telemetry, SCADA and real-time operational data platforms.
• Experience supporting large-scale growth, acquisition or transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of data-driven operating models and advanced analytics capabilities.

Personal Attributes

• Strategic, business-oriented and able to balance long-term architectural direction with practical project-delivery requirements.
• Proactive, self-managing and comfortable taking ownership of complex architectural work.
• Strong in stakeholder engagement and relationship building across business and technology teams.
• Confident challenging established approaches constructively and driving innovation where it creates genuine value.

Languages

• Fluent written and spoken English is mandatory.
• Swedish language skills are advantageous.
• Candidate CVs must be submitted in English.

Working Conditions

• Assignment scheduled from 9th November 2026 to 30th June 2027.
• Some business travel is expected, potentially around once per month depending on project requirements.
• The engagement is offered on an hourly-rate basis. No additional benefits are specified.