Enterprise Architect- Volvo Energy

We shape the world we want to live in tomorrow! With an agile approach and can-do mindset we help accelerate the electrification transformation, every day in all we do. This is the opportunity of a lifetime!


Working at Volvo Energy is different
Do you want to make the world a better place and love architecting digital solutions? Welcome to a team unified by an important mission, great ideas, fun, diversity, and inclusiveness. Our colleagues are - and will always be - the most important part of the story. Whilst demands are high, there is also plenty of opportunities to learn and grow - as a professional and as a person. We look for colleagues that thoroughly enjoy our intrapreneurial journey, can hit the ground running and lead with passion, perform with purpose and transform with vision. Moreover, it will be essential you have a strong ability to form trustful relationships to effectively work with partners - inside and outside of the Volvo Group – in a cross-functional manner. You will make a difference!


Volvo Energy Digital & IT
Digital & IT is a function within Volvo Energy. We support our customers transition to a carbon-free world through great Digital solutions and experiences that users love and enables customers to shift to fossil-free operations. We truly care about the customer’s business in terms of up-time, safety, productivity and of course 100% green energy supply. We aim at having industry-leading simplicity and usability for our digital services, such as routing, find-book-pay and charging operator systems. The energy transition will not come for free – but we are committed to support this transition by hard and dedicated work.


So - what are we looking for in this specific role?
Volvo Energy is building a highly qualified digital platform to support the large need for Commercial Vehicle Charging solutions and services in the world. We are now looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect, responsible for the complete digital solution landscape related to Commercial Battery Electric Vehicle charging. This role will also reach into the battery space, defining the end-to-end perspective of charging.
In the role as Enterprise Architect, you will have the responsibility to transform business visions, strategies and customer needs into an Enterprise Architecture. This is done by identifying the change needed on business capabilities, information models, IT solutions and infrastructure - and transforming them into an architectural runway for all development activities - ensuring cyber security at all levels. As the charging market rely on standards for interoperability between vehicles, chargers and backend systems like ISO 15118, OCPP and OCPI, you make sure charging solutions are designed to be compliant with these standards.
You define which business capabilities that should be solved where in the solution landscape. You know when it makes sense to build own solutions, and when to partner with other players and suppliers in the Commercial Vehicle Charging Eco-system. Time to market is of great essence, so we strive to build and learn in short development cycles.
You will work closely together with several different qualified teams to help design and build the future Digital platform needed for Vehicle charging. As an Enterprise Architect in the Volvo Group, you will be part of an architectural community with high skills and abilities.
This role is placed in CampX, Gothenburg, Sweden. However, if you are the person we look for -Volvo Energy could support with re-location.


Qualifications likely required to be successful
Several years of practicing in senior IT or Enterprise Architecture roles
University degree relevant to the position: in electrical engineering, industrial engineering, computer science, Informatics or equivalent
Experience from electromobility services, charging systems or energy infrastructure
Experience from complex solution landscape design, combining Cloud/SaaS solutions with own development using Cloud/PaaS
Solid understanding of cyber security, data management and modern integration technologies
Experience from Agile development and DevOps practices
Strong technology interest - always interested in learning more
Ability to work in a heterogenous environment with several development teams, both inhouse and with players in the Digital Ecosystem
A “boots on the ground, get the job done” attitude
Fluent in English, written and spoken.

Please provide answer to the two following questions in your cover letter;


1) What are the main barriers impacting the adoption of electromobility within the commercial transport sector?


2) What are the obstacles from a truck driver perspective when shifting towards Battery electric vehicles and how could Digital solutions help overcome these?


We welcome your application as soon as possible but no later than July 18th, 2022.
We will review applications continuously and the position can be filled before the last application date.


Feel free to contact us if you have further questions
Claus Biller, Head of Enterprise Architecture
e-mail: claus.biller@volvo.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claus-biller-90046531/


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