Head of Architecture & Tooling

Do you thrive at the intersection of business strategy and technology transformation? Here, you shape how architecture and tooling drive real business outcomes—creating clarity, direction, and long-term value across a complex, global organization.

About the job

You define, govern, and continuously evolve architecture and tooling across the organization, ensuring alignment with business strategy and digital transformation goals. You ensure that the technology landscape—applications, platforms, data, and integration—remains coherent, scalable, and fit for purpose in a complex environment.

Job responsibilities

• Govern the technology landscape to ensure long-term integrity and informed decision-making
• Drive and evolve a structured agenda that prioritizes and sequences technology change
• Build and strengthen architecture and tooling as a strategic capability across the organization
• Ensure alignment between divisional roadmaps and overarching architectural direction
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and represent architecture in governance forums

Location and flexibility

The role is preferably based in Sweden, Stockholm. International travel is required.

Your profile

You bring extensive experience in enterprise architecture, IT strategy, or large-scale technology transformation and feel confident navigating complex, global organizations. With a strategic mindset, you connect long-term direction with practical execution and lead organizations through meaningful change.

Your background includes:

• University degree in IT or related field.
• 10+ years in IT architecture roles, with large-scale IT operations experience.
• Expertise in TOGAF, ITIL, ServiceNow, Cloud & Datacenter, Network Security, Digital Workplace.
• Knowledge of automation frameworks, observability platforms, and AIOps.

Key Competencies

• Proven leadership experience
• Strategic thinking & business Acumen
• Advanced technical expertise
• Governance & risk management
• Collaboration & influencing skills
• Innovation in automation & AI-driven operations

You’re a confident and credible leader with an enterprise-first mindset. Clear communication comes naturally, and you translate complex topics into business-relevant insights that build trust and alignment.

Collaboration is at the core of how you work. You bring people together, challenge constructively when needed, and lead with integrity while developing sustainable capabilities for the future.

Our culture

At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. So, we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Denise Johansson, HR representative, [email protected].

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How to apply

Send your application no later than 15th July, 2026. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail. Job ID: R0093988.

We aim for an open and fair recruitment process and use different tools to ensure an objective assessment. Later in the process, you may be invited to complete a personality and logic test.

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services at [email protected].   

Sandvik is a global, industrial technology group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation and rock processing. In 2025 the Group had approximately 42,000 employees and revenues of about SEK 121 billion in more than 150 countries.