Enterprise Architect

Wallenius Wilhelmsen group; Göteborgs kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1 250 000 - 1 500 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Gothenburg is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to drive digital transformation by aligning architecture with business objectives. The successful candidate will establish architecture frameworks, ensure compliance, and guide architectural decisions across the organization. This role offers competitive compensation and development opportunities in a diverse, global workplace.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Health and life insurance

Social events and activities

Flexible working conditions

Pension scheme

Company cabins in various locations

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise architecture or technical leadership roles.
• Deep understanding of business processes and cross-functional dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern enterprise-wide architecture principles and standards.
• Ensure alignment between business objectives and technology decisions.
• Maintain architecture documentation and enforce compliance requirements.

Skills

Enterprise architecture frameworks expertise

Business process modeling

Analytical mindset in emerging technologies

Security and compliance enforcement

Clear communication

Collaborative influence

Education

Advanced degree in Technology, Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Job description

Overview

The Wallenius Wilhelmsen group is the market leader in roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) shipping and vehicle logistics, managing the distribution of cars, trucks, rolling equipment, and breakbulk to customers all over the world. Wallenius Wilhelmsen is committed to being at the forefront of the green transition and aims to be carbon-neutral by 2040.

The company operates around 125 vessels servicing 15 trade routes across six continents, a global inland distribution network, 66 processing centers, and eight marine terminals. With the head office in Oslo, Norway, the Wallenius Wilhelmsen group has around 9,500 employees in 28 countries worldwide.

Job Description

Purpose of the role

The Enterprise Architect defines and governs enterprise-wide architecture principles, standards, and capability models to enable digital transformation. This role ensures alignment between business objectives and technology decisions, driving consistency, scalability, and innovation across the organization.

All roles within the digital delivery organization are focusing on delivering digital solutions and support for the transformation workstreams. The roles are expected to work with the entire CDO including close collaboration with their respective counterpart roles within ITOPS to ensure stable operations and smooth transition from existing to future landscape.

Accountabilities

• Establishes and maintains the enterprise architecture framework (e.g., reference architectures, design patterns, integration standards) that considers business architecture aligns with business goals.
• Defines and maintains global business architecture frameworks (e.g., capability models, process frameworks) in tandem with technical reference architectures to ensure alignment process and technology.
• Reviews and validates major architectural proposals from Domain Architects and Business Process Analysts, identifying deviations or areas for improvement; evaluates business process designs for overlapping capabilities, redundancies, conflicts.
• Enforces adherence to security, data privacy, and compliance requirements in solution designs.
• Keeps architecture documentation current, accessible, and reflective of global best practices.
• Analyzes emerging technologies and trends, proposing updates to architecture standards as needed.
• Coordinates with Cyber Security Lead, Platform Architect, and Global Head of Data to address cross-cutting concerns (e.g., security, performance, data governance).
• Guides solution-level architects in best practices for system interoperability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Resolves architecture conflicts or escalations, in collaboration with SVP Digital Governance & Architecture.

Knowledge and skills

Hard/Content Skills

• Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, patterns, and methodologies (e.g., microservices, integration standards).
• Deep expertise in business process modeling (BPM) and enterprise capability frameworks.
• Ability to review and validate major architectural proposals from workstream architects, identifying deviations or areas for improvement.
• Skilled in enforcing security, data privacy, and compliance requirements in solution designs.
• Strong analytical mindset to evaluate emerging technologies, proposing updates to architectural standards as needed.

Domain Expertise

• Deep understanding of WalWil’s business processes (shipping operations, commercial models, back-office functions, etc.) and how they interconnect.
• Understanding of cross-functional dependencies across multiple transformation workstreams.

Soft/Leadership Skills

• Clear communication to articulate architectural decisions and rationale to a range of stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset to influence and educate Domain Architects without direct authority.
• Analytical abilities to spot overlaps, redundancies, or conflicts in processes across multiple domains.
• Ability to balance global standards with local customization needs, ensuring overall coherence.

Required Experience

• Advanced degree in Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years in enterprise architecture or technical leadership roles, covering large-scale, complex system landscapes.

Key interfaces / stakeholders

• Digital Workstream Leads, Domain/Solution Architects
• Workstream Leads, Business Process Analysts
• Global Head of Data, Platform Architect, Engineering Standards & DevSecOps Lead, Cyber Security Lead

What are the most essential competencies required to succeed in this role?

• Architectural Community Leadership: Cultivate a strong, collaborative architecture community by promoting knowledge sharing, mentoring peers, and driving adoption of shared standards and practices.
• Systems Thinking and Trade-off Navigation: Apply systems thinking to evaluate complex challenges from multiple perspectives, balancing competing priorities and guiding stakeholders through architectural trade-offs.
• Business-Driven Technology Stewardship: Operate at the intersection of business and technology—translating strategic goals into scalable, value-driven architecture decisions that enable enterprise transformation.

Benefits

• Terms and compensation at a competitive level.
• A great opportunity for development in a global company.
• Sporting and cultural activities (e.g., group training in our gymnasium, running, sailing, kayaking, pilates, football, theatre, concert tickets, etc.)
• Social events year-round (e.g., wine tasting, cooking classes, yoga, dance, rock-climbing lessons, etc.)
• Company cabins in Norway, Sweden and abroad.
• Premium health and group life insurance, including access to online medical services.
• A great pension scheme.
• Paid parental leave and compassionate leave.
• Flexible working conditions with a hybrid work setup.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: The Wallenius Wilhelmsen Group is an equal opportunity employer that strongly believes in diversity and a value driven culture that makes everyone feel welcome. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a global company with colleagues and stakeholders from different cultures and countries and where English is the working language.

Location: Oslo in Norway or Gothenburg or Stockholm in Sweden

Contract: Local

Application deadline: 26 Oct 2025