EA / IT Architect

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 12 000 students, 400 professors and close to 4 000 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

Aalto University IT Services supports our researchers, teachers, students and other staff by producing world class services that make their work easier, more flexible, comprehensive and secure regardless of time and location. We are a community of over 140 committed and talented IT experts.

Want to be a game changer?

We are now looking for an EA / IT Architect​ to join our team.

Your role and goals

In this role you play an important part in strengthening the enterprise architecture and process architecture development at Aalto as a part of our ambitious digitalization strategy. You are enthusiastic about data and processes and can look EA architecture as a sum of technology, data and processes. First assignment will be to work on EA documentation update and get familiar with the EA landscape. You will participate in the Aalto University’s EA workgroup and have a change to contribute to national and international architecture frameworks and digitalization programs. 

What we offer

Aalto University has a strong focus on digitalization, development and enabling new methods of working, discovery, teaching and learning. Working with us, you will get to see and experience the latest developments in the IT industry and play an important part in big changes. In this position, you will get to work with and support Finland’s top gurus from different fields and be a part of an ambitious working environment that you can be proud of.

Aalto University is technically unique and interesting: we have a rich and versatile IT environment with leading edge technologies and latest developments in the field of IT research. Our significant in-house IT resources and capabilities enable experimenting and committed long-term IT development. We have an ambitious digitalization strategy and a diverse and vast community of innovative users.

We offer you an interesting and challenging role within Aalto’s digitalization with plenty of learning and development opportunities as well as good work-life balance. Although you are independently responsible of your own area of work, we offer you support and coaching when you feel you need it.

With us you will be part of an inspiring and supportive work community of ambitious game-changers who are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future. We support a culture of learning and experimentation. We fail fast and learn fast – together.

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Your experience and ambitions

What will help you to succeed and enjoy working in this position:

•           Experience in EA- and IT-architecture

•           Experience in data and business process modeling, EA tools and their frameworks (i.e. BPML; Archimate; JHS179)

•           Familiar with capability concepts and models  

•           Cloud-architecture

•           Solution-architecture

•           Service design

•           Utilization of BI tools / metrics

•           Experience in data science/analytics and data visualization

•           Flexible, open-minded and collaborative attitude. You have good communication and collaboration skills. You are able to work independently and you are solution oriented.

•           Strong analytical skills

•           Willingness and ability to learn and resilience to drive things forward

•           Aalto University is an international working environment, so we expect you to have an excellent command of English; good command of Finnish is an advantage.

•           Master of Science (Technology) or Bachelor of Engineering degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer engineering or related discipline preferred)

​More than anything, we hope you are passionate about your field of work and enthusiastic about constantly innovating and learning something new together with others. We welcome also junior candidates with less experience to apply.

You will be working in our strongly developing campus with amazing colleagues and possibilities for professional growth.

Ready to apply?

To hear more, you can reach out to Head of CDO office Sari Vehtari [email protected] .

If you want to join our community, please submit your application through our recruitment system by Sunday, May 1st, 2022. As we are eager to find the right game changer to join our team, we will start reviewing applications immediately.

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