We are now looking for a Solution or Integration Architect to our Business Partner, for assignment at end customer Telia.
Description:
Telia is now looking for a Solution or Integration Architect – Entities to be a part of the Entities & Privacy team in Telia’s CPS CRM & Partner Functions IT Department.
We are aware of that this spec may be one that most people won’t fill completely, so we am primarily looking for familiarity with systems, ability to learn, the right attitude and a willingness/ability to assume responsibility for a large, critical system.
As a Solution/Integration Architect you will be responsible for facilitating customer centricity by connecting customer information across our 100’s of systems in 6 countries. This is an important role for Telia in their digital transformation journey and this team is building a solution which is critical for the teams working with customer engagement, global business, insight, and many other areas. The Party Manager system is a new core functionality that will help us transform the entire company from subscriber centric based architecture and models to a streamlined user centric architecture. It enables modern customer master principles for B2C, B2B, B2O, and omnichannel capabilities with consistent experience across brands.
As a Solution/Integration Architect you will be part of the start of a new team. We already have 2 developers working in Oslo, Norway but hope to grow the team in the next few months. We are an agile team so our 2 developers will immediately implement the solution design you create and first in Norway and then in the other countries as we have more team members join our area. We have defined some of the Enterprise level architecture and basic needs, and now need to start building the solution architecture for how to turn those high-level plans into actionable tasks. We are starting in Norway and will be rolling out features as they are developed in the other 5 Telia countries as well.
This role mainly focuses on providing solution designs and strategies in backend architecture for our core system. You will work with different projects and initiatives from our stakeholders as well as take part in meetings where you will discuss and present ideas to improve our architecture. We are currently focusing on transforming Telia from a subscription to a user-centric company and this is a critical tool in that process.
Who are you? Since you are going to be working closely together with many different development teams as well as other architects you need to have good communication skills and you need to be a true team player. We also think that you are driven, solution oriented, take ownership for getting things done and are not afraid to initiate new solutions or initiatives that can benefit our area and help us reach our goals. You also like to keep your eyes on the details, maintain a good structure and succeed in following up in a diverse variety of people and tasks. We are aware of that this spec may be one that most people won’t fill completely, so we am primarily looking for familiarity with systems, ability to learn, the right attitude and a willingness/ability to assume responsibility for a large, critical system. That will ultimately be more important than experience with the exact elements of the stack.
What the manager really want is a Solution Architect who would look at the system and think, “Sure, that looks interesting. I bet I can figure all that out…” English is our common language, so good communication skills is important to us. Do you speak any other Scandinavian as well? Great!
The main responsibilities will be:
• Break down the high-level architectural plan into programmable tasks.
• Design and work out architectural solutions based on concepts and feature needs.
• Support our developers making sure that solutions are scalable, maintainable and architecturally sound.
• Drive roadmap work for the team and related areas dealing with integration issues with new systems upon need
• Work according to modern, agile and devops software development practices and help create good engineering practices
• Co-operate with other technology areas on global deliveries
• Create solution and technical documentation
• Work closely with developers, stakeholders and enterprise architects
• This is not just an architectural job, but also includes a lot of practical work and problem solving
The team is small and you will get a lot of responsibility and work autonomously. Therefore, it is important that our new member have the level of seniority to manage to work independently. They are a great bunch of people with different skillsets, cultural backgrounds, age span, gender and nationalities and we have great fun together. Diversity is something they really value, and they are eager to get to know you who can bring a new perspective to the table by understanding the diversity of our customers in a way they haven’t yet.
We have several platforms in the company where we meet up to exchange knowledge and the environment is known to be informal and open. We also have flexible working hours with an opportunity for home office. (During Covid-19 times we have worked primarily from home with frequent meetings via Teams and Slack with optional 2 days in the office per week for those who want to).