Step into the role

MilDef specializes in crafting custom, rugged IT solutions for the military and government sectors, ensuring robust and reliable technology tailored to challenging and extreme environments. As we experience significant growth, the need for a clear and scalable IT architecture becomes increasingly important.

As IT Enterprise Architect at MilDef, you are responsible for shaping and governing the overall IT architecture in line with business strategy and defense industry requirements. You act as a link between business and IT, ensuring that solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain MilDef’s Enterprise Architecture framework, principles, and target architecture aligned with business strategy and defense industry requirements.

• Drive architectural strategy to ensure security, compliance, resilience, and scalability across the IT landscape, aligning business objectives, digital initiatives, and IT architecture roadmaps

• Govern architecture decisions across projects, platforms, and integrations, ensuring consistency and risk mitigation.

• Translate regulatory, security, and compliance requirements (e.g. defense, export control, information security) into architectural standards and design patterns.

• Act as architectural advisor to the CIO and IT leadership team on strategic initiatives and investment decisions.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and ERP teams to ensure secure-by-design solutions.

• Review and approve solution architectures to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and long-term sustainability.

• Support M&A, system modernization, and ERP/digital platform initiatives from an enterprise architecture perspective.

• Maintain documentation of current-state, target-state, and transition architectures.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Proven experience in Enterprise Architecture, IT Architecture, or similar strategic architecture roles.

• Strong understanding of enterprise IT landscapes, including applications, data, infrastructure, and security.

• Experience working in regulated industries, preferably defense, manufacturing, or mission-critical environments.

• Strong ability to balance business needs, security, compliance, cost, and long-term maintainability.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of operating at executive level.

• Strategic and analytical mindset with the ability to balance big-picture thinking and detailed execution

• Strong integrity and security awareness, with confidence operating in complex, high-stakes environments

• Collaborative and authoritative without being bureaucratic.

• Fluency in English and Swedish, both written and spoken.

It is considered a merit if you have

• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks.

• Experience supporting ERP platforms, system integrations, and large-scale transformation initiatives.

• Background in information security, risk, or compliance-related architecture.

Get to know us

At MilDef, you'll be part of a company that values hands-on involvement, strong team spirit, and the development of defense technology. With us, you will have the opportunity to develop new skills, contribute to cross-functional projects, and make a real impact on our continued success. We encourage continuous learning and collaboration, and we offer excellent opportunities for career development. We are proud to actively promote health and work-life balance. We do this, among other things, by offering attractive employee benefits and wellness initiatives, such as wellness activities during working hours.

Would you like to know more about MilDef, our products, and our culture? MilDef.com

For further information, please contact Martin Karlsson, Director of IT or Linnéa Blixt, HR.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Due to the summer holiday period, candidates will receive feedback after the summer.

Important information

We conduct drug tests on all our future colleagues before employment.

Due to the nature of our operations, employment regardless of position may be subject to background and security related checks.

MilDef - WE ARMOR IT.

MilDef is a global systems integrator and full-spectrum provider specializing in rugged IT for military, government and critical infrastructure sectors. MilDef provides hardware, software, and services that shield and protect critical information streams and systems, when and where the stakes are the highest. MilDef’s products are sold to more than 200 customers through companies in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Australia, and through partner networks in more than 40 countries. MilDef was founded in 1997 and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 2021.

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