Solution Architect, Information Architecture

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Are you interested in understanding our huge entity at SOK, of technology projects that are visibly connected to our society? Do you have experience on multiple systems and multiple landscapes, having worked on requirements mgt and solution analyses and varying tech? And of course the integration behind different systems? We are now looking for a Solution Architect who will be responsible for the end-to-end solution and process for several cloud-based systems and applications, making sure that we choose the best tools and technologies throughout each systems lifecycle. 

SOK IT, Development & Design

We are a collection of 400 unique and diverse talents in Finland inside the 40,000 person S-Group which is Finland’s largest private employer. We are tasked with providing expert and strategic guidance to all of S-Group, its cooperatives and its owners, who are ultimately, millions of regular Finns. So essentially our shareholders, are you! We are therefore motivated to excel not by increasing profits for a small group of the 1%, rather to help our neighbors, our families, our fellow Finns and ex-pat neighbors, ourselves. 

We are uniquely positioned inside S-Group with billions of rows of data from multiple use cases and business domains, all intimately connected to Finns as they/we go about our daily routines. We build SW products, apps and services highlighted by the regular dialogue between digital and IRL worlds, which genuinely makes our work consistently intriguing. We are design conscious, we believe in community internally and externally, pride ourselves on our open source commitment, our blossoming DevOps culture, and our use of modern tools and democratic development standards for an holistic philosophy to modern and pure software development practices.

Department:

IT Category Management and Procurement

Team: Assortment Planning and Space Management

The Team:

We have about a dozen SOK internals, and another 40 or so externals. We are a big group with an annual budget of around 15M! There are large investments around renewing assortment planning and space management tools. Our team’s role is to make sure all category managers have the proper tools to make customer centric assortment decisions, and manage store and shelf-space for all our over 1050 stores across Finland. In addition to all the exciting new technology and analytics we are bringing to assortment planning, in space management our team helps create planograms, 3D store modeling, optimizing all retail things and support for stores as they modernize and renovate.

As a group we are basically changing the tools to enable more visual and more analytics driven metrics and applications. As Architect, we want you to have time for design work thinking, knowledge building. Giving you time to think, is important in this role.

The Job:

We are looking for a system analyst mindset, someone who has a good understanding of different kinds of technologies, AWS included. You will take over a huge entity and learn to understand the system landscape, and target landscape. Your work will focus on the integration and interfaces between these systems and then understanding the data models and features of the systems. With this understanding, you will be able to define the interfaces and integrations on a logical level to find the right tech needed.

From this work, you will create a roadmap how to move to the target landscape, requiring quite a lot of conversations with various stakeholders as specialists of each of the systems. With this, you’ll create clear documentation to create the architectural models and specifications to be implemented by our devs.

You don’t have to have worked as an Enterprise Architect, but it helps if you understand that role and what kind of documentation is needed, along with creating model tools.

We are integrating 3rd party ready applications for the core assortment analysis and optimization, and you will work on consumer goods processes and system landscape. Because this system does not support all processes, you will need to develop a lot of customized functionality on AWS. We also have our master systems that need to be integrated into this entity, ERP and replenishment systems, and whatever reporting and analyzing platforms we have. And then the other side is implementing the custom part and creating clear specs for that.

Requirements:

Experience working with diverse systems simultaneously, as Solution Architect

Experience in requirements analyses and requirements mgt

AWS experience

Experience in integration architecture and integration technologies

You are familiar with different modern programming concepts, and off the shelf solutions too

You are able to support others on technological issues and as part of the development process

You have experience driving and guiding technical design and implementation to be modular, scalable and resilient

Our Process:

Please submit your English CV and cover letter here. If you are a match, one of our recruiters will be in touch with you promptly! Once contact has been made, you will have the opportunity to ask what questions you may have about this job, our people, and what your future could look like at SOK.

Our interview process is comprehensive, and relatively painless. You will meet our hiring manager, your future teammates, and our HR team to give you a realistic picture of what it’s like to work here. As with our working culture, our candidate process exudes a nurturing environment of psychological safety coupled by a qualitative and quantitative analysis of your compatibility, technically and socially. In short: we are good people, looking for more, good people. 

We look forward to meeting you!

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