CI Architect - R&D Software Factory

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future. Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent. We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What you will do
At Software factory at Volvo Cars we are building a community with highly skilled personnel. We are harmonizing the workflows and developing tools to be used across R&D, with the aim to accelerate the software development at Volvo Cars. We are responsible for. Developing continuous integration (CI) architecture & infrastructure. Maintaining the complete software build and CI flow.  Enabling high utilization of infrastructure, test objects and test artefacts. Creating automated tools & applications to secure an efficient flow. Supporting traceability to fulfill all legal requirements. We are applying manufacturing principles and techniques to software development to mimic benefits of traditional manufacturing and creating a software product line. Now we are looking for an CI Architect to join our Software Factory.
Your responsibilities will include –
* Work with CI pipelines to find common areas to optimize, consolidate and make more efficient.
* Make sure architecture decisions support both R&D and IT strategies, and when designs are made, they are aligned with Volvo Cars architecture standards, principles, and roadmaps.
* Work with architecture designs and build a balance between the short-term goals and the long-term strategies.
* Diving the work of the ‘To-Be’ architectures and the steps to get there from the ‘As-Is’ architectures.
* Driving solution evaluation and selection decisions, buy vs. open source vs. build.
* Make sure architectures and designs are robust and address business, information, and infrastructure architectural requirements.
* Contribute to the work of Software Factory, do concept studies and prototype tomorrows pipelines today.
* Configuration, implementation, and automation of Continuous Integration pipelines for software delivery, including test automation frameworks
* System integration and Software configuration management
* Building positive relationship in the developer community
* Continuously improve speed, efficiency, scalability and stability of continuous integration system and environment.
* Together with the product owner lead the architectural roadmap and vision for the area.
* Help to capture demand, trends etc from development teams.
* Working in an agile environment with agile methodologies like Scrum, Kanban, Safe etc.
* Support and coach the development teams across R&D.

You will work in a skilled agile team, where you make an impact. This role can be located either in Lund or Gothenburg
What you‘ll bring
We believe that collaboration and networking come natural to you as well as the goal that our SW Factory should enable our business. You have a passion for developing software solutions together with colleagues with high level of specialist competence and are motivated by creating new solutions. You are creative, analytical, curious and are motivated by finding new ways forward by coding, testing and operating the SW development flow. You are communicative and can use suitable value argumentation in dialogue with different stakeholders. 
Skills that will support you in your role include:
* M.Sc. in Electrical or Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or similar relevant experience.
* Experience as working as an architect for at least 3 years.
* Automation scripting Python, Bash, Groovy or Shell
* Knowledge in Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Artifactory or similar

 Meritorious 
* Experience working with Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS
* Certification with the architectural area such as "Certifierad IT-Arkitekt Master" or "CITA-A"
* Prior experience working with C/C++ and able to read and debug the code    
* Experience within Automotive and from working in an international environment
* An interest for cars

Want to know more? We hope so
We’d like to receive and review your application. If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply to learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the hiring manager at (roger.pettersson.2@volvocars.com) or the recruiter at (catharina.skog@volvocars.com). #LI-CS1