Solution Architect - Cloud

This is us, your new colleagues
Diagnostics & Software is a Digital Delivery within Digital & IT. We are responsible for developing the next generation Diagnostic Service Platform which is a key enabler for our digital transformation for the future. We are involved in developing services in the areas like Proximity and Remote Vehicle Diagnostics, Embedded Diagnostics, Prognostics, Over the Air Update of complete vehicle, Fault Tracing and various other future product capabilities targeting multiple platforms. The main sites are in Sweden, Brazil, and India. We want to make a difference by being there for our colleagues and for our customers and by providing uptime and reliable services. All over the world. Every day.


We are now seeking an experienced Solution Architect with a strong background in Azure who has the drive and passion to contribute to our digital transformation and who sees that the key to success is to develop the organization and its people to meet future business challenges.

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 a Solution 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 Solution 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, 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 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.


Your background
We are now looking for our next piece to the puzzle. We expect you to have a solid background as a Solution Architect along with a relevant university degree. You have experience from working with cloud solutions (Azure, AWS or GCP), preferably with a certification in any of the services. Adding to this you have knowledge in container services (Kubernetes & Openshift). You also are familiar with using the programming languages C#, .Net or Typescript.


In addition to above you should have/be:
Proficient in at least one architecture diagram tool (Draw.IO, Enterprise Architect, Visio)
Knowledge about market-standard authorization protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect)



Additional experience in any of the below techniques will be considered a merit:
Microsoft Azure application services experience (APIM, Functions, App Service, FrontDoor, Key Vault)
JS frontend framework experience (React, Angular, Polymer)
Azure Devops YAML pipelines
SonarQube knowledge



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 a Solution 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. In your role you will have close collaboration with the business stakeholders, hence your communication and presentation skills will be core skills that will help you succeed. Along with a customer focused, and well-structured way of working you will most likely be the person we are looking for.


Are we a perfect match?
The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines. We are around 95,000 colleagues around the globe and our products and services are sold in more than 190 countries. Our brand portfolio consists of Volvo, Volvo Penta, Terex Trucks, Renault Trucks, Prevost, Nova bus and Mack. We partner in alliances and joint ventures with the Sunwin, SDLG, Eicher and Dongfeng brands.


The societies where many of us live would not function without the type of products and services the Volvo Group provides. Like a circulatory system, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment and different, related services are involved in several of the functions that most of us rely on every day.


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


For further information, please contact:
Senior Solution Architect, Robert Brasegård, phone +46 73 9024342
HRBP, Magdalena Armdal, phone +46 31 322 49 49




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