The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) is Denmark’s foreign intelligence service and works — both covertly and openly — to protect Denmark and Danish interests in a changing world.

FE is not alone in protecting Denmark, but it is the only authority mandated to use highly specific means to uncover what other states and foreign actors try to keep secret. FE contributes to peace, safety, and security for Danes, both in the analogue and digital world, by uncovering, assessing, advising on, and countering both current and emerging threats. FE draws great strength from its diversity of deep expertise and specialists, and is a unique, operationally oriented knowledge organisation with many different tasks, all sharing the common foundation of the knowledge that intelligence work creates.

FE’s Centre for Cyber Security (CFCS) forms Denmark’s national defence against cyber threats and works towards a secure digital Denmark. CFCS helps detect and handle cyberattacks against Danish interests, and gathers, builds, and shares the knowledge that can prevent the next attack. CFCS’s culture is strongly shaped by this purpose, and it is clear to every employee that they make a difference when Denmark is exposed to cyber threats and attacks.

The department

CFCS/FE handles a wide range of tasks within cyber security, from threat assessments, incident handling, alerting, and advisory work to hands-on monitoring of data traffic, identification of threat actors, and operation of the situation centre — all with the purpose of preventing, countering, and protecting against cyberattacks on Denmark’s critical infrastructure. These activities are supported by a wide range of tools run by the IT organisation in collaboration with the organisation’s Product Owners.

As Business Architect, you will become part of a small team in CFCS, in a newly created section that is being built up. The section consists of you as business owner, Product Owners, and two other business-support employees. The team works continuously to ensure that the skilled and highly specialised analysts have access to the best data solutions. Cutting-edge technologies and a wide range of data sources are used to prevent, counter, and protect authorities and companies against cyberattacks.

The section works closely together and relies on each other for professional sparring, with a strong professional community. Good colleagues and an informal tone also strongly characterise the team, who enjoy spending time together both professionally and socially.

The position

You will be employed in a newly created position as Business Architect, and in this role you will be responsible for strengthening the coordination between IT tools, processes, and CFCS/FE’s strategy.

As Business Architect, you are passionate about working with business architecture in practice. Your experience also means you have a solid business understanding.

You thrive in a role where you work with complex tasks and are the one responsible for bridging various data to create relevant and usable business models for FE/CFCS. Your analytical approach also means you are able to connect your knowledge and experience from previous solutions to reuse them in a new solution.

You will play a key role, working closely with management to help translate FE/CFCS’s strategy and vision, and continue the work of mapping, documenting, maintaining, and optimising value chains, processes, and workflows across the centre’s system landscape.

The major strategic lines have been drawn, but in this role you will get the opportunity to leave your own mark and have significant influence on the processes, the business, and future projects. It is therefore a big advantage if you are a “driver” and have done something similar before.

Areas of responsibility

Your tasks will mainly lie within the following areas:

• Strengthening and continuing the work of mapping, documenting, maintaining, and optimising CFCS/FE’s value chain, processes, and workflows
• Supporting management in translating strategy into concrete and coordinated product strategies across CFCS/FE’s system landscape
• Sparring and coordinating with Product Owners on planning, prioritising, and following up on efforts and resources for individual systems and backlogs
• Taking on a cross-cutting coordinating role between CFCS management, Product Owners, development teams, and a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation, with a view to developing and prioritising pipelines and dependencies
• Helping the organisation define and establish target images and vision for future workflows, processes, and system support

Requirements

Your professional qualifications include:

• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following roles: Business Architect, Business Analyst, and/or Business Consultant
• Solid experience with product and/or project management in a software context
• Concrete and documented experience with business analysis, giving you a solid business understanding
• Experience with or knowledge of IT architecture
• Process-oriented, with the ability to effectively connect processes and translate strategies
• Solid technical knowledge — it is an advantage if you have knowledge within cyber security as well