IT Senior Solution Architect

GTO Powertrain Production is based on highly skilled people and great teamwork. We are a truly global organization, we rely on diversity and together we create a workplace that brings the best out of everyone. We are responsible for deliveries of unique and Powertrain common solutions used by GTO Powertrain Production plants and REMAN sites. We are located in Sweden, France, India, US and Brazil.


We are now looking for a Senior Solution Architect to strengthen our team, bringing expertise and skills, supporting the plants digitalization journey, more specifically Köping and Vénissiuex IT Solutions.


Your main activities and responsibilities
As a Solution Architect, you will lead and coordinate architectural work across the different teams and deliveries. You will define and develop the strategic and tactical direction of our architecture. As part of a global organization, you 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 align architecture with IT Security Directives and fulfill demand for information security. You will also contribute to the implementation of our solution components.


Bring in continuous improvement mindset by participation in the development of the architectural principles, processes and standards.


Ensure that IT integrations, the compatibility and interoperability across applications and modules follows guidelines stipulated by appointed architectural governance function.


Support the realization of digitalization journey and contribute in recruiting/building competent technical team within the unit towards one or more Future IT Skills - Microservices, Modern UX/UI Design, IOT, AI, DevSecOps, Cloud, Data Analytics, RPA


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


Required competencies
Strong business understanding relevant for Manufacturing domain
Ability to work closely with business stakeholders
Strong analytical skills
Independent, Self-Driven, and takes Ownership to drive deliveries.
Multitask/Effective time management for driving activities across multiple engagements
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and communicate effectively with business-leaders/stakeholders and IT community
Should be able to evaluate, interpret and capture the requirements, current state architecture of the enterprise and create future state and roadmap for the future enhancements accordingly
Experience in implementing different architectural styles like Microservices, N-tier, Event-driven, Big Data/Compute etc. and possess strong understanding of design patterns, methodologies and principles to secure architecture best practices and maintain operational excellence in Product
Collaborate with peer teams on responsibilities involving infrastructure, operations, enterprise architecture, information and application security, networking etc.
Experience working with multi-vendor, multi-culture, distributed offshore and onshore development teams
Experience in transforming legacy apps into modern intelligent apps and migrating on-premise applications to cloud
Be able to independently analyze and resolve production problems, identify potential issues to reduce technical debt, assess alternatives as appropriate and implement long-term solutions
Be able to provide technical guidance and coaching to junior architects/developers in the team, review deliverables, oversee progress and ensure consistency with standards, best practices, architectural and design guidelines
Ensure solutions meets all requirements related to quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
Be able to strike a balance between innovation and business and end user requirements
Experience in modelling and planning tools e.g Mind Manager, Mega Hopex Visio, JIRA, TFS



Technical skills
Experience in working with architecture governance while moving towards digital product orientation
Familiar with Agile Scrum methodologies/ ways of working, Agile tools, techniques and practices
Experience in cloud native development methods and technique with an ability to define technology stack targeting Microsoft Azure or AWS or OpenShift
Knowledge of building CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, setting up and managing Build and Release pipelines
Highly proficient in Microsoft technology stack and deep understanding in .NET (Core and Framework); MVC; ASP .Net, ORM Tools; REST / Web API; T-SQL;SQL Server; IIS
Strong knowledge and eagerness to stay abreast with information technology trends and emerging technologies
Explore automation opportunities



Background
Preferably one of the following, or equivalent:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge skills and abilities
A Master of Science in Engineering or Master in Administration or equivalent
Valid work-permit for the location you are applying for. No relocation assistance from Volvo

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


For further information please contact:
Hiring Manager: Jonathan Mewes, Delivery Manager, +46 728 624679
HR Business Partner: Hanna Liedberg, +46 31 3225529


Union representatives for Swedish applicants:
Akademikerna – Hanna Börjesson, +46 16 5414679
Unionen – Tonny Vikström, +46 16 5414601


Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.