Event Streaming & Message Queuing Manager

Do you want to be the key enabler toward making Volvo Group a truly event driven organization? Have you read the book Data Mesh and want to practice it at scale? This is your opportunity.


Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future

At Group Digital & IT, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With Group Digital & IT, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. We have a very important role to play in reaching the Volvo Group ambitions for 2030. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the Group? The time is now.


This will be us - your new colleagues within Foundational Products & Chapters


Foundational Products & Chapters is part of Technology, a new function within Volvo Group Digital & IT with a big stake in the Group’s digital transformation. Technology will modernize Volvo’s core digital backbone making it a platform for digital products. Foundational Products & Chapters are responsible for API & Integration, DevSecOps, Cloud and Development Platforms. Our Foundational IT products are used by digital product teams and enable them and their products to outperform Volvo’s competitors. Our digital talents develop capabilities and digital technologies to improve business performance and create value for the Group with speed and at scale.


We collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in Group IT and the rest of the Volvo Group. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we win together.


This is how you can make an impact


As the leader of MQ & Event Streaming you will be a key enabler to the Volvo Group Digitalization Transformation by developing and leading a global team of high performing digital talents focused on Messaging platforms.


You will set the vision and strategy for MQ & Event Streaming while ensuring scalability, performance, security, and reliability. You will drive engagement and enablement through close alignment with teams and key stakeholders and act as an ambassador for MQ & Event Streaming in Volvo Group.


You will be accountable for the overall performance and availability of the platforms in close cooperation with our partners and vendors and will secure the needed investments to drive the modernization and transformation of the MQ and Event Streaming, aligned with our vision.


In collaboration with Chapters, you will secure the right competences and capacity within the product team/area and maintain close relationships with partners and vendors to enable value creation at scale whilst supporting the development of a learning organization.


Who are you?


We are looking for you who is a natural leader that displays energy and passion for modern Integration and establishment of dynamic infrastructure layer for distributing events among decoupled applications. You ideally have solid experience from leading people in the Integration (Messaging and/or Event Streaming) domain. Today you probably have a role as Engineering Manager or similar. Adding to this you have the technical knowledge to describe and define the possibilities and benefits of event driven architecture. Lastly, you have a university degree in a relevant field as a backbone to your knowledge.


You always put the consumer in focus and are curious to understand the needs of the business to be able to provide the best fit for each business area. You always have an ear with your stakeholders and believe in the power of collaboration. Working in a global context is something that comes naturally to you.


The right candidate will be able to think and act strategically but also to operate and implement change tactically when required, dealing effectively with ambiguity and managing changing priorities. You should be passionate about driving strategic & technological transformation in a business focused, fact-based, and collaborative way to achieve real impact. This role requires solid communication skills and a passion for leading, inspiring and developing people.


In addition to this, you are a passionate believer in continuous learning. You should feel energized by working both independently and interdependently, have proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and thrive in managing, foster and enable both the perform and the transform angles of the job.


Are we a good match?


In the Volvo Group, we have defined leadership as a set of observable behaviors that leaders exercise to achieve alignment towards our vision 2030, to better execute our strategy and for the Group to continuously renew itself in order to “Perform and Transform”. To reach our vision and deliver on our strong commitments, we need to pair “the will” with “the skill”. That is why our leadership principles are behavioral based. The principles Lead with Passion, Perform with Purpose and Transform with Vision are our values in action, and they will strengthen our culture.


In your role as Line Manager, we expect you to develop your area of responsibility by having the ability to define the right priorities based on a customer centric mindset. We encourage the ability to drive business forward and act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value (financial, cultural, or social) for others. We create an environment where of continuously improvements and learning maximize the outcome of our work.


Are you curious and have some questions? Call us!


Contacts:
Fredrik Blom, Head of API and integration, Volvo Group Digital & IT, +4670 91 19 930
Therese Envall, HRBP, Volvo Group Digital & IT


The location for the position is flexible, with Göteborg, (SE), Wroclaw (PL) or Lyon (FR) as preferred locations.


Union representatives for Swedish applicants:
Akademikerna – Therese Koggdal, +46 470 387855
Unionen - Johan Svedberg, +46 31 3222712
Ledarna – Ulrika Holmberg, +46 31 3225071


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