AI & Data Solution Architect – HR

Do you want to help shape how AI transforms HR? In this newly created position, you combine hands-on technical expertise with a strong architectural mindset to turn business needs into secure, scalable, and valuable AI solutions.

This is an opportunity to:

• Build and shape an AI capability that’s new to HR Technology.

• Work at the forefront of AI while continuously developing your own expertise.

• Take significant ownership while collaborating closely with HR, IT, and architecture specialists.

About the job

You shape and govern the use of AI across HR Technology. You provide architectural direction for Workday-native capabilities, custom-built solutions and AI agents, ensuring that development aligns with the company’s AI strategy, technology architecture and standards. You report to the Head of HR Technology, with a dotted line to the Manager Architecture Advisory, Enterprise Architect.

Job responsibilities

• Define and maintain the AI strategy and roadmap for HR together with the Head of HR Technology.

• Identify valuable AI opportunities, translate business needs into viable solutions, and lead or contribute to studies, pilots, and implementations.

• Establish architectural and governance principles covering data, privacy, security, documentation, ownership, and lifecycle management.

• Assess development across our global Human Capital Management System Workday and its AI capabilities, as well as other large language models, agentic AI, and enterprise AI platforms.

• Design how AI interacts with HR systems, enterprise platforms and data sources, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective.

• Facilitate workshops, build AI awareness and collaborate with HR, IT, architecture, legal and data privacy specialists.

Location and flexibility

This position is based at the World Trade Center in Stockholm, or Sandviken, with a hybrid setup. For the right candidate, remote work from elsewhere within the CET time zone may be possible.

Your profile

You bring extensive experience from technical positions and have built AI solutions and worked closely with the technologies and architectural concepts behind them. We place significant value on curiosity, a willingness to learn, and the ambition to continuously develop both your own expertise and how AI can create value across our HR organization.

Your background includes

• Strong knowledge of generative AI, large language models, AI agents, and solution architecture.

• Hands-on experience with HCM or ERP systems and platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Claude, Azure AI, Foundry, Power Automate, MCP, A2A or similar.

• Understanding of APIs, integrations, data architecture, and cloud technologies.

• Experience in prototyping AI solutions, gathering requirements, and facilitating workshops.

• A university degree, or equivalent experience.

• Strong English communication skills.

You’re curious, self-driven, and motivated by continuous learning. With a structured approach and broad perspective, you’re comfortable taking ownership and managing stakeholder expectations.

The team

You belong to HR Technology & Information Management and work closely with the Head of HR Technology. Collaboration extends across HR and the business, as well as IT, enterprise architecture, legal and data privacy specialists.

Our culture

Our role is clear – through every action, every day, we make the shift and advance the world through engineering. We believe in an inclusive, equal and open-minded culture, and we nurture our diversities to form a solid foundation for achieving great results. Add fair and rewarding benefits, as well as many different career options. Are you intrigued? Visit our website, LinkedIn or Facebook page to get to know us further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Erik Dahl, hiring manager, [email protected]

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Union contacts – Sweden

• Johanna Beijer, Unionen, +46 (0)70 616 18 27

• Erik Knebel, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70 340 47 03

• Peter Olsson-Andrée, Ledarna, +46 (0)70 222 48 55

Recruitment Specialist: Lisbeth Häggström

How to apply

Send your application no later than October 20, 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: R0097702.

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.