First week at Sii Sweden

This week I started my new position as Atlassian Architect for Sii Sweden, an Atlassian Platinum partner, after a lightning fast interview phase. It has been quite the interesting week with onboarding and getting to know the massive organization that Sii International is. I am now working from a new location in Stockholm that I do not have been to very much, so it is interesting to explore the area as well.

Some of you might know that I have been looking for a new employer after QRIOS decided to close down the part of the organization I was supposed to work at after I left Sinch. I had the luxury of having three amazing companies offering me different positions. Sii Sweden cane in last minute and I had 3 interviews in just a few days, and then they gave me an offer. After weighing my options, which was not easy with three amazing offers, I picked Sii Sweden.

I started working on Monday this week and so far the journey has been great. The Swedish CEO Miguel Vergara is great, and he has done everything he can to make me feel welcome. The Sii head of Atlassian Maciej Szostek have provided a ton of information on what his vision and plans are for the Atlassian part of Sii and I have to say, he has me sold on those plans! I am really looking forward to work with Maciej and the rest of the Sii Atlassian team towards that vision.

Speaking of the Sii Atlassian team I have only met a few so far, and they are amazing. I am not easily impressed when it comes to Atlassian competence, but working with my fellow Atlassian architect Wojciech Miecznikowski and one of our amazing Atlassian consultants Piotr Mazij, I am impressed. They clearly know what they are doing and with experts like that on my side... well, let us just say I feel good about the future :)

As you might notice my Atlassian colleagues names are not Swedish and that is because Sii Sweden is a part of Sii Poland. Sii Poland is a massive organization with 7500+ employees and Sii Sweden is a small, but growing, extension of that organization. I was very impressed about the origin story of Sii Poland that was built from one man to the impressive organization we have today. You can watch the impressive story that our CEO Gregoire Nitot undertook to build the Polish branch of Sii in this video.

Globally Sii have 16,000 employees in pretty much all areas you can think of, and it all started with a French company called Groupe SII back in 1979. For me this is an interesting situation because in Sweden we are still small in terms of organization, but in Poland we are quite big and globally we are massive. It provides an exciting opportunity to help our Swedish organization grow, and I especially look forward to growing the Atlassian side of Sii in Sweden.

Although I have only been with Sii one week now, I feel very good about the work that has been done so far and the vision for the future for both the Swedish branch and the Atlassian business area. There are many exciting opportunities to explore and with the support of a massive organization with high competence in almost all fields you can think of and coworkers that are amazing...

The future is so bright I have to wear shades (Timbuk 3 - 1986).