Job Posting Closes: December 5, 2025
Healthcare in Stockholm is undergoing a transformation, and the Service Administration is actively creating the conditions for the future of healthcare across the region, with a focus on mobility and digitalization. We are looking for someone who wants to join us on this journey by contributing in the role of Object Specialist in the area of authentication!
About the Position
The Identity and Access Management Unit is responsible for the management and further development of IT support for identity management, access, authorization, and trusted services. We are facing exciting tasks and projects in the coming years, which gives you as an Object Specialist the opportunity to work with new solutions while developing both professionally and personally.
As an Object Specialist at the Service Administration, you will manage, proactively maintain, and develop the region's central authentication service. You will play a central role in ensuring high functionality and understanding complex integrations, as well as how these affect various solutions and systems. In this role, you will participate in architectural issues and challenges, transforming them into practical solutions that meet the needs of the business. You will also monitor how changes and additions of methods, connection types, and processes impact future manageability, system complexity, and security, providing you with a broad overview of both technology and operations.
The Role Involves:
- Ensuring the delivery of authentication services for the region's users. This includes securing authentication methods, service descriptions, frameworks for service delivery, customer support, and requirements specification for subcontractors/technical management and operations.
- Acting as a point of contact for both customers and the administration's subcontractors within operations and technical management, which is a central part of the role.
- Working with the region's authentication service and the various methods used to authenticate users. This includes working with standards such as SAML and OIDC with dependencies on directory services via LDAP and databases such as X.500.
- Being responsible within the management organization for transforming the business's functional requirements into the best possible technical solutions and ensuring that changes fit into the technical environment, as well as further developing the process framework around the service.
Who Are You?
To be a good fit for this role, we see that you are a responsive and unpretentious team player who is eager to share your expertise and knowledge. The role involves many internal and external contacts, which requires good communication skills and the ability to express yourself pedagogically in both speech and writing. You are comfortable navigating different contexts while building relationships in a trustworthy and businesslike manner. You are also analytical and have a solution-oriented approach that can prioritize between the big picture and details. In this role, we expect you to independently drive activities from start to finish in a structured manner with good documentation skills. As we continuously work to improve and refine our work processes, you are flexible and adaptable. In this recruitment, we place great emphasis on your personal qualities.
We also see that you have:
- Post-secondary education in IT, system science, information management, or other experience that we consider equivalent.
- Insight and knowledge of X.500 structures.
- Knowledge of federation/SAML/OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0.
- Knowledge of certificates and their applications.
- Experience in delivering presentations and conducting workshops.
- Good ability to express yourself in speech and writing in Swedish.
It is also advantageous if you have:
- Previous experience as an Object Specialist in identity and access management (IAM).
- Knowledge in various areas such as the operations of Region Stockholm, regulations (PDL, NIS Directive, laws, regulations, and the region's policies), as well as SAML federations.
- Knowledge in the following areas: LDAP, Integrations, WSFED, PAM, ITIL, Linux, Networking.
Application
If this sounds like something for you, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.
In this recruitment, Region Stockholm is collaborating with Computer Sweden Recruitment. For inquiries or questions, please contact Johanna Nordberg, Recruitment Consultant, at
[email protected] or 0703343159. You can also contact Unit Manager Arnar Berg Olafsson at
[email protected].
Other
Tests may be included in the recruitment process, including a personality test and a problem-solving test, both based on psychological research. The tests are used as a complement to your experiences and competencies. A probationary period may be applied. Planned overtime (service window) may occur.
We are located in nice premises on Lindhagensgatan, easily accessible by public transport.
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