Experienced IT Architect

Commercial Solutions
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Then Commercial Solution is the place to be!
We are a unit within Group IT with approximately 1600 people having full responsibility to manage the evolution of all the commercial solutions used by the truck brands and that are common for the Volvo Group.


The Volvo Trucks Aftermarket unit enable a multitude of customer services from profitable spare parts sales, reliable quality monitoring and novel uptime services. We take pride to connect and collaborate to deliver our services in close agile cooperation both within the Volvo Group and with our partners.

The Diagnostics department is based in Gothenburg, Curitiba and Bangalore and we have a strong focus on new development to provide our end customers with the latest technological solutions.


Experienced IT Architect

This is us, your new colleagues
You will work in a Global cross-functional team, developing the next generation Diagnostic Service Platform which is a key enabler for reinventing our digital experience in the Volvo Aftermarket world. The team is working agile in the true sense and is part of an agile release train where multiple teams work together to deliver new functionalities every 10 weeks. Being part of our department gives you an exposure and responsibility that goes just beyond the backlog.

Who are you?
As a person you are a team player with a positive mind-set, and you are curious to further take on the various challenges of an Application Architect. We believe continuous improvement is in your nature, you love quality, allow yourself to be inspired, have a “can do” attitude and take pride in your work. You are a believer in collaboration and interaction between teams and roles.


Your main activities and responsibilities
As an experienced IT Architect, you will lead and coordinate architectural work across different teams in the agile release train. You will define and develop the strategic and tactical direction of our full stack architecture. As part of a global unit and will actively cooperate with various stakeholders with ease in a multi-cultural environment.


You will be involved in designing and maintaining the architecture views, models, and target architecture for the solutions and drive the work to identify and reduce the technical debt. You will also contribute to the implementation (hands on) of our software components.


You will stay up-to date in architectural trends & relevant industry models and be a mentor for other developers, architects in the team.


Required competencies
Strong business understanding relevant for Diagnostics domain
Ability to work closely with business stakeholders
Excellent communication & presentation skills
Customer focused, teamwork skills and a well-structured approach
Strong analytical skills and enjoys solving complex technical problems

Development skills
Typescript / Javascript, Node.js
MongoDB, GraphQL
Docker
HTML5, JSON, CSS
Web Component techniques

Operating System
Windows
Android
iOS

Methodologies
Test driven development
DevSecOps
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
Tools
Visual Studio Code
GIT
SonarQube or similar code coverage tools

Good to have
Jenkins
Azure
VSTS Pipelines
Build
Polymer
Mocha/Chai/WCT (Web Component Tester) experience

Background
A Bachelors or Masters in Engineering science, Computer science, Business Administration or equivalent
A passion for IT
At least 4 years relevant work experience
Solid English skills

We offer
You will get an opportunity to work together with highly skilled colleagues in an exciting, global environment which provides opportunities to develop both professionally and personally. You will work in close collaboration with various stakeholders inside as well as outside Group IT, delivering innovative services in line with the Volvo Group Strategy.

At Volvo Group, we are actively working to establish teams that will take maximum advantage of the strengths inherent in differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender, nationality etc.

Application screening will start immediately; we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.


For further information, please contact
Delivery Manager, Diagnostic & SWDL Services, SC Volvo Trucks Aftermarket, Commercial Solutions, Rajib Dhar, +46 31 323 60 66
HRBP, Magdalena Armdal, phone +46 31 322 49 49