Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.
At Saab, we operate in an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving security environment where software, cloud, automation, and digital infrastructure are becoming critical enablers of operational superiority and mission readiness. As Saab continues its international growth journey, technology plays a central role in strengthening resilience, accelerating innovation, and enabling next-generation defense capabilities across all operational domains.
Modern defense systems demand scalable, secure, and resilient digital platforms capable of operating across cloud, edge, and disconnected environments. The ability to rapidly develop, integrate, deploy, and evolve software-defined capabilities is becoming a decisive factor in maintaining technological and operational advantage.
Within Saab Technology, we are accelerating:
As an Architect, you will play a central role in shaping Saab’s future digital platform landscape and cloud strategy. You will drive architecture across mission-critical environments spanning cloud, hybrid, edge, and disconnected operational domains, ensuring that Saab’s platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with long-term operational needs.
You will work closely with engineering teams, tech leads, security specialists, product owners, and operational stakeholders to define architecture principles, guide strategic technology decisions, and establish modern platform foundations enabling next-generation defense capabilities.
Your main responsibilities include:
You will be part of the Container & Cloud Platforms section within Common Tech – a specialized organization responsible for enabling modern digital platforms, cloud capabilities, and strategic technology transformation across Saab.
You are a senior architect or technology leader with extensive experience in cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and modern infrastructure architectures. You are comfortable operating both strategically and technically, and you enjoy translating complex operational requirements into scalable and resilient technical solutions.
You thrive in environments where security, operational reliability, and long-term thinking are essential, and you are motivated by enabling engineering organizations to move faster through strong architectural foundations and modern platform capabilities.
You understand how to balance:
…within large-scale and security-sensitive organizations.
You are collaborative, structured, and forward-looking, with a strong ability to communicate technical concepts across both engineering and business stakeholders.
Required skills and experience:
Additional valuable experience:
What you will help enable:
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
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Saab is a leading defense and security company with an enduring purpose, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 28,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defense capability of several nations. Read more about us here