Solution Architect

Securitas’ vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner by being client centric, data driven and people focused. Our protective services help make your world a safer place.

IT is a key function in enabling the modern and powerful technology needed to fulfil Securitas’ business strategy.

In Europe, our 400+ IT co‑workers support digital products and services for clients, and transform and protect our existing IT landscape, making sure colleagues across the European Division can work efficiently in a modern IT environment.

As a Solution Architect, you help connect our operational services with our core enterprise platforms (such as ERP, CRM, HR, finance and data platforms).

You work closely with the Enterprise Architect and the Enterprise Architecture Team to:

• Document and understand our current IT landscape.
• Support impact assessments for changes and new initiatives.
• Contribute to transition and target architectures.

Over time, you will take ownership of defined domains and become a key partner for both business and IT in shaping how our IT landscape supports Securitas’ strategy.

The Solution Architect supports the definition and realisation of transition and target architectures, with a focus on operational services and their integration with core platforms.

You will:

• Support the Enterprise Architect in defining transition architectures and target architectures for selected domains.
• Develop a solid understanding of key business processes and how they are supported by enterprise applications and operational systems.
• Maintain and improve architecture documentation, including landscape views, integration maps and process‑to‑system mappings.
• Prepare and support solution design workshops with business and IT stakeholders; over time, facilitate parts of these workshops.
• Apply established design principles, standards and architecture guardrails for your domains when assessing solution options.
• Contribute to solution recommendations by analysing impacts, dependencies, risks and alignment with target architecture.
• Support impact assessments for new initiatives and change requests across applications, integrations, data and processes.
• Develop, maintain and communicate processes and standard practices related to high‑level design and implementation of solutions across a portfolio of initiatives and enhancements.
• Work with business and IT stakeholders to understand requirements, identify solution gaps and available capabilities, and help define solutions that meet business needs.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps for selected domains, in line with divisional and group architecture directions.
• Prepare material for architecture forums and governance decisions (presentations, diagrams, summaries).
• Interact with stakeholders in business and IT and support them in understanding architecture options and implications.
• Support the definition of scope for new implementation programmes and change requests, including functional/technical/process scope, dependencies and high‑level estimates.
• Lead and contribute to Solution Architecture Descriptions (SAD) and related documentation (investigations, analysis, design options, PoC input).
• Develop conceptual and logical models of applications, integrations, data flows and business capabilities.
• Update and maintain accurate architecture artefacts in the architecture repository (e.g. application catalogues, integration maps, capability/process maps).
• Provide input to cost and effort estimations for solution options.
• Perform impact assessments for change requests and new initiatives.
• Perform end‑to‑end mapping of key processes across applications and integrations.

• Enterprise Architect – align on the target EU enterprise architecture and solution architectures; escalate issues and decisions when needed.
• IT Product Managers / Product Owners – collaborate on solution options and priorities; escalate priority conflicts when necessary.
• Business Process Leads – collaborate to ensure solutions support agreed processes and ways of working.
• Country Solution Architects / Local IT Architects – support country‑specific solution creation and ensure…