Infrastructure Architect

Visma

Visma offers software and services that simplify and digitise core business processes in the private and public sector. The group operates across the entire Nordic region along with Benelux, Central and Eastern
Europe. With over 8. 5k employees, more than 900k customers and net revenue of NOKmillion in, Visma is one of Europe’s leading software companies. Visit .

Visma IT

IT service delivery in the digital age means rapid growth and major changes as emerging technologies introduce paradigm shifts. Cloud service delivery is the next major driver. Success in changing environments requires the ability to innovate, design and deliver while providing steady and secure IT deliveries.

In addition to providing IT services to our customer portfolio, Visma IT provides all Visma business units with the tools and infrastructure they need to deliver state-of-the-art solutions and services to their
customers. By giving employees access to the right technology, we ensure quality at all stages of the customer journey. We also provide data storage in on-premise environments, in hosting environments and in the cloud, both public and private.

Our international teams base their work on an extensive knowledge of IT service delivery in both on-premise environments and the public and private cloud. Security is our number one priority, and to ensure that we comply with all laws and regulations, we are ISO certified in the areas of security, quality, project management and IT service delivery.

About the job

Visma IT & Communications is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to strengthen its Architecture and IT development functions

You will support the organisation by engaging with other Architects, System Managers, domain experts, and support them with your broad understanding of technology, ranging from bare metal infrastructure,
compute, networking, virtualisation and public cloud.

You will engage with steering group committees and management team to advise on technology choices and their business impact.

As part of the Architecture board, you will help the organisation in defining requirements, principles and guidelines that enable us to build solutions that meet business needs.

You will apply strong communication skills, diplomacy, relationship building and problem solving skills, when engaging across all departments in the organisation.

By demonstrating a pragmatic and solution oriented approach, you will help the organisation in overcoming challenges.

Your skills:

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills and Experience)

*Bachelor degree in computer science or a related field and a minimum of 8 years professional experience

*Broad understanding of technology ranging from Storage, Network, Compute, cloud computing etc with a specialisation in at least one area

*Ability to gather and document stakeholder requirements and deliver innovative solutions that meet and exceed those requirements

*Strong oral and written communication skills and ability to work effectively with technical and business people alike

*Good presentation skills and comfortable working with highly demanding stakeholders

*When faced with incomplete information and complex problems, you demonstrate a pragmatic and solution oriented approach

*Strong organisational skills and ability to write business cases and create technical documentation

*Willing to adapt to change, alteration in work activities and ability to decide and act on limited information, balancing risk and benefit for the business

*Experience with Togaf and modelling in Archimate

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Experience & Skills)

* computer science or a related field and 10 years or more of professional experience

*Certifications in Togaf, Archimate, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc

*Hands on experience with Architecture tooling

*Experience with Architecture governance in Architecture Boards

*Experience in Architecting for public cloud environments

*Knowledge of network technologies and DataCenter technologies

*Hands on experience in compute and virtualization (VMware, Citrix, etc)

*Experience in the use of agile and iterative methodologies

*Familiar with Confluence and Jira as day to day working tools

Tasks:

*Lead design and review of new systems and pro-active roadmap building together with the System managers

*Gather and develop business and functional requirements from internal and external stakeholders

*Evaluate existing systems against business requirements and propose concrete suggestions for the future

*Support the organisation in large scale IT onboardings of acquired companies, ensuring that business needs for swift onboarding and risk are understood and balanced

*Working in the Architecture board, reviewing and improving Solution Designs

*Actively building and furthering the Architecture capability

*Travel to the HQ in Oslo several times per year

What Visma offers

We offer an exciting position in an international working environment where you will be part of a dynamic and highly skilled international team. You will have good opportunities for career development through
internal training and diverse work assignments in a prominent international company. We offer competitive terms and conditions.

We conduct background checks on relevant candidates through our partner Semac.