Lead Architect

If Insurance

Lead Architect driving IT architecture for a leading insurance company in the Nordics. Collaborating across domains and managing dependencies for sustainable solutions in a complex environment.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeStockholm • 🇸🇪 SwedenSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will be one of the key players in building and evolving world class IT systems that support the business in delivering best in class insurance solutions to our largest and most complex customers.
Operate at a cross-domain level in Business Area Industrial, ensuring architectural coherence, long-term sustainability, and alignment with both business strategy and IT transformation goals.
Supporting other solution architects, managing dependencies across Business Areas and ensuring consistency with group-level initiatives, shared capabilities, and architectural frameworks.
Define and own clear architectural roadmaps and transition paths, guiding our landscape from current state to target state while balancing business needs, technical constraints, and ongoing delivery.
Drive IT simplification by making complex problems into understandable and actionable solution design.
Close collaboration with business stakeholders, IT leadership, and delivery teams spanning across multiple locations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience driving architecture end-to-end, including mentoring solution architects, following up on architectural deliveries, and ensuring alignment with agreed principles and target states in a fast paced environment where strategic thinking and operational support go hand in hand.
Comfortability to work hands-on with solution architecture, while keeping responsibility for the broader architectural picture.
Strong ability to relate architectural decisions to business needs, and you excel in the intersection between business and IT.
You can comfortability navigate complexity, make informed tradeoffs, and support delivery execution.
An understanding and fluency in both business language and technical architecture, understand the end-to-end business processes and the system landscape holistically.
A skill to produce architecture viewpoint for different aspects and stakeholders such as business/process, Information modeling and application and integration architecture.

Benefits

Comp & perks

An including work environment where everyone is welcome
Career and development opportunities in the biggest insurance company in the Nordics
Social activities, as well as highly skilled professional environment
Possibility of hybrid workplace
Health promoting workplace with e.g., wellness allowance and various sports activities
Great insurance benefits
Lunch benefit

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Hard Skills & Tools

solution architecturearchitectural frameworksinformation modelingapplication architectureintegration architecturearchitectural roadmapstechnical constraintsbusiness processesIT systemsdelivery execution

Soft Skills

strategic thinkingmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationnavigating complexitytradeoff analysisstakeholder engagementbusiness alignmentoperational support