Experienced IT Architect for the Product Lifecycle Management Core

Position Description
You will be part of an engaged and kind team in an international and multicultural environment and within a department developing our future IT solutions in the Virtual products lifecycle management area.
Are you interested in digitalization, the latest technology and an organization that cares about its employees? Do you want to work with a bunch of incredibly driven, passionate, and skilled people? Great! Volvo Group is now searching for an experienced business analyst within the virtual lifecycle management domain.
Virtual Lifecycle Management solutions covers CAD, Virtual Product lifecycle management (PLM), Augmented and Virtual reality applications. The solutions are a key enabler to achieve engineering efficiency, virtual trust, and the digital twin capabilities across the Volvo Group.


THIS IS US, YOUR NEW COLLEAGUES
Volvo is driving several exciting transformation projects and initiatives to digitalize our business processes and leverage the value of data and become a fully data-driven company. We are Virtual Lifecycle Management Solution Centre working to increase efficiency through our current set of digital and IT solutions.
Our existing IT solutions comprises of a mix of varied technologies like Microsoft, Java, and Commercial Off the shelf (COTS) IT solutions and SaaS solutions from CAD and PLM vendors. We find ourselves on the cusp of a transformation with heavy investments to transform and modernize our overall IT architecture.
We are supporting the Volvo Group’s Digital ambitions to become a fully agile, data-driven company, and we are building the foundations for the virtual trust, supported by improved use of digital twins, i.e. the digital data representing a physical object as well as an improved digital thread, the integrated view of physical products’ digital data through its lifecycle.


Role mission & context
As an Architect you will be part of an environment that embrace change and trust. You will be the be part of creating a good team spirit and a fun place to work that appeals others to join the team and by that the results will follow. You have proven experience in developing and implementing new modern architecture in a Product Lifecycle Management context and are driven to improve the day-to-day experience for our PLM tool users.
You are used to communicate with different stakeholders in different levels in an organization since the delivery is touching the day-to-day operation on many levels
You will drive the dialogue to define the needed improvements down to requirements and will also be part of the delivery of the solution in a x-functional Agile context
You will be the PLM Core IT architecture specialist in the agile team. Members and stakeholders will turn to for guidance in the PLM area
You can help us further develop our skills in integrating all architecture disciplines (Process, Data, Application, Integration, Technology, and Security) and advise on functional and technical approaches for all concerned systems within the application landscape
You will work together with us to design and maintain architecture views, models, and target architectures according to defined standards and tools
You as an architect will help us in the Agile transformation and modern SDLC software development practices, DevSecOps, and technical documentation (requirements, functional specifications, test plans, etc.).
A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer science or similar, or proven competencies that connects to the Product Lifecyle Management domain is a merit
Experience of Scaled agile way of working (SAFE) is a strength
Fluent in English

We can offer you:
An attractive working environment where you will get an opportunity to work together with highly skilled colleagues in a global environment
An opportunity to work with the core applications for the PLM tools
To work with exciting techniques and development practices in a complex technical environment
To grow your competence both within IT as well as the automotive domain
You will work in close collaboration with our customers/users, suppliers and development team
You will be part of the Architecture team that is responsible for developing and maintaining the IT architecture
You will be an active member of an Agile SCRUM team

Together we are delivering cutting edge solutions and services which drive profitability and growth. You will be part of an organization where continues improvements and fulfillment of business value is vital. We are expected to deliver a state-of-the-art solution for a stable and effective Product and Production development environment, to develop the solutions in order to increase the efficiency for our stakeholders. We work closely together between the delivery teams within our Solution Center in a global environment.


Location will be Gothenburg.


For further information please contact:
Mikael Lundkvist, Delivery Manager Windchill Core & Virtual Manufacturing: +46 739 02 66 54
Andreas Bergstrand, Delivery Manager Windchill Core Gothenburg, +46765535804
Sreenivas Velayudhan, Solution Architect Virtual Lifecycle Management, +46 313 22 91 98
Sofie Nylander, HR Business Partner: +46 31 322 39 90


Union representatives for Swedish applicants:
Akademikerna – Therese Koggdal, +46 470 387855
Unionen - Jonas Ljungdahl, +46 31 3224985
Ledarna – Peter Svensson, +46 739 022687