Head of Architecture

Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.

With around 322 000 employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world’s best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.

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

In Europe, our 400+ IT co-workers support digital products and services for clients and transforming and protecting our existing IT landscape, making sure colleagues all over the European Division can work efficiently in a modern IT environment. IT is a key function supporting the capabilities of a modern and powerful IT technology needed to fulfil Securitas business strategy.

4 years ago, Securitas Europe has launched a business transformation program. The objective of this program is to transform our organization and processes in all European countries with new common platform enabler. We now enter a new phase to manage the roll-out in the different countries as we already have some countries live to support in the business-as-usual mode.

Our goal is to leverage and centralize applications at the European level. To support this strategy, the Business Application IT team operates as a product‑oriented IT organization.

Delivery is structured around:

• Product Domains, accountable for product development and functional value.

• Roll-out Projects, responsible for large-scale, multi-country deployments and product implementation.

The Architecture tam acts as the design authority and architectural backbone for business application, ensuring coherence, consistency and sustainability of the European target IT architecture.

The mission of the Architect within the Centre of Excellence is to translate business strategy into a coherent, secure and scalable IT architecture, supporting multi‑country roll‑outs while managing complexity and technical debt.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Enterprise Architect who can operate effectively in a complex, multicultural environment.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Defining and maintain European target architecture.

• Governing all Architecture decisions for European application.

You will manage a team of 4 people for the moment including Business architect, PMO support, Solution Architect for 2 main products Oracle and WFM. You will coordinate and manage additional external consultants depending of the roadmap management.

Architecture Governance & Design Authority

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  Act as the design authority for Business Applications within the North Star scope.

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  Provide architectural direction and decision support to Product Domains and country roll‑out initiatives.

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  Review and validate major application, integration, and platform design decisions.

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  Ensure adherence to European and Group Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and guardrails.

Target Architecture & Roadmap

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  Act as the design authority for Business Applications within the North Star scope.

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  Provide architectural direction and decision support to Product Domains and country roll‑out initiatives.

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  Review and validate major application, integration, and platform design decisions.

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  Ensure adherence to European and Group Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and guardrails.

Country Roll‑out Support

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  Lead or support country-level architecture assessments (as‑is, to‑be, gap analysis).

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  Identify critical dependencies, constraints, and integration impacts for country deployments.

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  Chair or contribute to Country Assessment Forums and architectural design reviews.

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  Ensure architectural consistency and reuse across multi‑country roll‑outs.

Data & Integration Architecture

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  Contribute to the definition and evolution of the enterprise data model.

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  Ensure coherence and robustness of data flows, integrations, and master data management.

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  Support end‑to‑end business process mapping from an architectural perspective.

Collaboration & Ways of Working

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  Work closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Service Delivery, and AMS partners and business.

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  Contribute to the development of architecture standards, methods, and best practices.

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  Actively support the maturity of architectural ways of working across the organization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 10–15 years of IT experience.

• Strong background in enterprise, application, and integration architecture.

• Experience with large, multi‑year, multi‑country transformation programs.

• Strong understanding of back‑office systems (ERP, Finance, HR, Workforce Management) and digitalisation.

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF – LeanIX is a plus).

• Structured, pragmatic, and decisive approach.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, dynamic project environments.

• Experience working in matrix organizations and with virtual teams.

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to make informed decisions and execute effectively.

• Strong people management and leadership skills.

• Fluency in English.

This role is open for candidates based in Europe.

It's a hybrid working model (office regulations depending on the specific country).