Senior Business Demand and Information Architect

Kintec Global Recruitment; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kintec Global Recruitment in Solna, near Stockholm, Sweden, seeks a Senior Business Demand and Information Architect to lead end-to-end business demand, translate needs into IT demands, and shape governance for Customers Nordic. The role drives data models and a shared glossary, collaborating with IT and business stakeholders for measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities include maintaining demand intake/analysis, KPI-driven value cases, and alignment with security standards within a large

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Systems or a comparable discipline.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of DAMA, Data Mesh, and data governance.
• Experience with data quality and enterprise architecture in a large organisation.
• Fluent in Swedish and English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and document end-to-end business demand governance across stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into IT demands with clear value and KPIs.
• Maintain a holistic view of the IT landscape and demand portfolio.
• Develop a shared business information glossary and data model for Customers Nordic.
• Collaborate with the Data Governance Lead, System Owner, Demand Architects, and BI/analytics teams.
• Define data ownership, domain boundaries, and standards with business and IT stakeholders.
• Evaluate development options against enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Support transformation programmes moving from current to target state.

Education

Master's degree in Information Systems or comparable discipline

Job description

Senior Business Demand and Information Architect

Location: Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Start Date: 16th October 2026

End Date: 31st December 2027

Role Purpose / Success Criteria / KPIs

• Lead and structure the end-to-end business demand process, covering intake, analysis, prioritisation, decision-making, and follow-up.
• Translate business needs into clear IT demands, value cases, and measurable outcomes with defined scope, acceptance criteria, and KPIs.
• Support implementation of the Data Governance Office and governance model to ensure business data is accurate, trusted, usable, and aligned with operational and analytical needs.
• Establish a holistic and future-proof view of information, data, and IT capabilities across the Customers Nordic business area.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in business demand governance and maintain transparent intake, analysis, prioritisation, and decision documentation across stakeholders.
• Capture, analyse, and structure business needs, converting them into well-defined IT demands with clear business value and measurable outcomes.
• Maintain a holistic view of the IT landscape and demand portfolio, balancing short- and long-term functional, commercial, and strategic needs.
• Develop and communicate a shared business information glossary across Customers Nordic.
• Establish and maintain a shared data model supporting consistent use of business information across the organisation.
• Define shared and local data needs, ownership, domain boundaries, and standards in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders.
• Work with the System Owner and Data Governance Lead to define common data-quality standards across Customers Nordic.

Tasks

• Structure data domains and organise shared versus local data using DAMA and Data Mesh principles.
• Support projects and business demands through information and data analysis, architecture guidance, and decision material.
• Use data and insights to identify business pain points and opportunities across customer behaviour, sales performance, and process efficiency.
• Translate identified opportunities into prioritised demands, value cases, and practical improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to business, process, data, and IT transformation programmes and help move the organisation from current to target state.
• Collaborate closely with the Data Governance Lead, System Owner, Demand Architects, business security representatives, internal IT, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate development alternatives against enterprise architecture, information security, data-governance, and organisational standards.
• Transparent demand-intake, prioritisation, and decision records supported by clear stakeholder governance.
• Defined IT demands with agreed scope, acceptance criteria, KPIs, expected business value, and follow‑up measures.
• A shared business information glossary and data model across Customers Nordic.
• Defined data domains, ownership, shared-versus-local information principles, and common data-quality standards.
• Architecture recommendations, value cases, and transformation roadmaps supporting delivery from current to target state.

Authority / Accountability

• Lead the business demand and information-architecture process from initial intake through to prioritised, measurable outcomes.
• Balance stakeholder interests, create alignment, and make or facilitate timely decisions needed to achieve agreed outputs.
• Represent sound IT and information-architecture practice in projects, programmes, and operational assignments.
• Drive change from current to target state while maintaining alignment with enterprise standards, security expectations, and business priorities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Master's degree in Information Systems or a comparable discipline and at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of utility and electricity-sector business processes and supporting IT capabilities.
• Extensive information-architecture experience covering demand intake, analysis, prioritisation, value cases, and follow‑up.
• Deep business and IT architecture experience across process, information, and system views, preferably within a large international organisation.
• Strong knowledge of DAMA, Data Mesh, data domains, ownership, data governance, and data quality.
• Strong analytical skills covering KPIs or OKRs, data‑led decision material, and collaboration with BI and analytics teams.
• Proven leadership and change‑management experience, including agile delivery and stakeholder influence.
• Ability to incorporate security regulations and information‑security considerations into architecture work.
• Fluent Swedish and English.
• Strong Enterprise Architecture expertise is essential; Solution or Application Architecture experience is advantageous.