Solution Architect

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

The preparation for our digital future is done in many different parts. One success factor that we need is a platform that enables team to faster deliver their compound digital services that complement and enhance our vehicles, enables new business models, and increase the pace of innovation throughout the enterprise. The development is done in a human centric mind-set using Agile/DevOps practices at Design and Virtual Hardware Cluster. The purpose of the digital cluster is to support the hardware development process from product design via product development, manufacturing engineering and to geometry assurance of the physical product in the plant. This responsibility also includes product document management (PDM), such as 2D, 3D and all technotes throughout the complete product lifecycle, from Design to being virtually verified and built by Manufacturing Engineering. This cluster is one of the key enablers reduce lead time for engineers.

What you’ll do 
In the role as Solution Architect you will work in close collaboration with business stakeholders, fellow architects, colleagues, and teams to set the architecture roadmap within the Design and Virtual Hardware cluster. Develop stable solution architectures that realizes the system's functional requirements and quality attributes while ensuring that architecture principles are followed. Ensuring also that technical solutions are supporting the roadmap for each product team.

Required experience
•    5 years+ experience as solution architect 
•    Experience of working within the PLM area. 
•    Experience of working with both COTS and own developed applications.
•    Experience of working in the cloud (Azure) and understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Microservices and Serverless
•    Ability to drive a long-term thinking approach to elaborate the "big picture" and pragmatism to translate it into achievable short-term objectives.
•    Understanding of agile delivery methods and processes (SCRUM, SAFe, DevOps) and capability of supporting agile product teams by providing advice on impacts and risks.
•    Understanding of Evolutionary Architecture
•    Working with green field applications is seen as a bonus

Personal skills we are looking for
•     Analytical
•     Ability to think in a critical way
•     Ability to solve problems
•     Self-motivated with strong driving force 
•     A strive for continuous improvements
•     Open minded, curious, and flexible
•     Adaptable and reorganize quickly with unexpected changes
•     Team player, ability to collaborate and coordinate a global team.
•     Customer focused - ability to deal with customers in a professional manner and to deliver in time with high quality 
•     Cultural and diversity awareness

We also think you have seniority in developing Target Architectures in relevant business and IT environments, together with a substantial business acumen related to the domain and have experience of complex global environments and stakeholder management.
We think you share our passion for cars and development in the automotive industry.
Location - Gothenburg
How to learn more and apply 
We want your application at the latest November 28th 2021. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted due to GDPR. We are looking forward to your application!