Enterprise Architect Director

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Chief Enterprise Architect

Do you want to work in a global company where you can contribute to a more sustainable food production? DeLaval is a leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of solutions for dairy farmers around the world. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers do more with less.

Role and responsibilities

DeLaval is seeking a senior Chief Enterprise Architect to own, define, and govern the enterprise architecture of the DeLaval Group. The role has end-to-end accountability for ensuring that DeLaval's business strategy is consistently translated into a coherent, secure, and scalable technology landscape across all business domains and geographies.

The Chief Enterprise Architect acts as the company's architectural authority, balancing long-term strategic direction with near-term execution, and ensuring that digital investments deliver measurable business value while reducing complexity and technical risk.

This role provides enterprise-wide leadership through mandate, governance, and influence. It does not initially include direct line management but carries clear functional leadership across a federated architecture community.

Scope and Mandate

The Chief Enterprise Architect has enterprise-level accountability for enterprise architecture principles, target states, and roadmaps; architecture governance, decision frameworks, and compliance; alignment between business strategy, operating model, and technology; and architectural coherence across ERP, CRM, CPQ, digital, IoT, data, and integration platforms. The Chief Enterprise Architect reports to the CIO.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy
• Define and continuously evolve DeLaval's enterprise architecture strategy and target architecture.
• Translate business strategy, growth ambitions, and industry trends into actionable architectural roadmaps.
• Ensure architectural decisions support scalability, security, sustainability, and time-to-market.
• Architecture Governance & Decision-Making
• Own and operate DeLaval's enterprise architecture governance model.
• Define architecture artefacts, principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Govern solution design and major initiatives.

Technology & Platform Leadership

• Set enterprise direction for core business platforms, integration and API strategy, cloud and infrastructure architecture, and digital and IoT platforms.
• Drive simplification, reuse, and reduction of technical debt.

Information & Data Architecture

• Own the enterprise information and data architecture.
• Define enterprise information models, data domains, and principles.
• Establish readiness for analytics and AI.

Business & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as a strategic advisor to the CIO and senior leaders.
• Bridge business and IT.

Architecture Community Leadership

• Provide functional leadership to solution and domain architects.
• Establish an enterprise architecture community of practice.

Success Measures

• Reduced complexity, faster delivery, increased reuse, stronger business alignment, and improved data quality.

Strategic Impact

This role is central to DeLaval's evolution into a digitally enabled, data-driven enterprise.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role we believe that you have:

• Several years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture.
• Strong ability to translate business strategy into architecture roadmaps.
• Experience with ERP, CRM, digital platforms, IoT, cloud, and data architecture.
• Solid understanding of architecture frameworks and governance (e.g., TOGAF).
• Skilled in driving simplification, standardization, and reducing technical debt.
• Strong stakeholder skills and ability to lead through influence.
• Excellent communicator who can bridge business and IT.
• Proven experience in driving projects and leading transformation.

Working at DeLaval

Our core values Passion, People, Professionals and Partnerships connect individuals across entities and geographies. Success is far more than knowledge - it is strongly related to behaviour. At DeLaval we are all guided by our three behaviours: Set Direction, Make Things Happen and One DeLaval.

We offer you a workplace like no other, where state-of-the-art technology goes hand in hand with animal welfare. DeLaval is a part of the Tetra Laval Group together with Tetra Pak and Sidel. In addition, we offer:

• Secure employment and benefits from the collective agreement (occupational pension, work-related accident insurance).
• Parental leave compensation (approx. 10 percent of the employee's monthly salary).
• Wellness allowance of SEK 4 000/year.
• Private healthcare insurance.
• Flexible working hours and reduced working hours.

Additional information

This is a full-time permanent position based at DeLaval's headquarters in Tumba, south of Stockholm. We offer a hybrid workplace model, allowing flexibility to work remotely.

We review applications ongoing. We do not accept applications via email, however if you have any questions regarding the role or the recruitment process don't hesitate to contact us.

Contact

Hiring manager: Jesper Särnholm, CIO and Vice President of Information Technology, jesper.sarnholm@delaval.com

Recruiter: Mathias Gunnstedt, Mathias.Gunnstedt@delaval.com

About DeLaval

Our vision is to make sustainable food production possible. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers, dairy farmers, do more with less by providing world-leading milking equipment and solutions.

Today, DeLaval has approximately 4,500 passionate professionals operating in more than 100 markets around the world. DeLaval is part of the Tetra Laval Group. See more at corporate.delaval.com