Solution Architect Digital IPDS

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.

What we offer?
The Solution R&D Engineering Enablers & Digital consists of several ARTs/Clusters. The solution is an agile set up of two organizations, R&D and Digital.
In our cluster Insights and Product Development Support (IPDS) we are now hiring one Solution Architect. The Cluster’s main goal is to support different stakeholders with digital solutions. The IPDS cluster is working with enabling product development within Volvo Cars with digital tools and solutions. We are also working with leveraging insights and analytics to support in the development of new products and services. The cluster is using a wide array of technologies and platforms and the stakeholders are spread out both internally within Volvo Cars and externally at our partners.
To achieve this, the cluster consist of 10 different products where Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Product teams work alongside according to the agile framework SAFe to deliver value to the Products that are aligned to the architectural runway. 

What you’ll do
The Solution Architect defines a common technical and architectural vision/runway for the Cluster and participates in defining the systems, functions, modules, interfaces, validate technology assumptions, and evaluate alternatives within the solution context. 
We are looking for someone that can have an agile approach to designing and building systems and have a systems-thinking mindset. Someone with customer centric design thinking that can guide and lead the product teams to moving in the right direction and help us in continuing our transformation towards a DevOps future. You will work closely with the teams in our cluster and help them align their products into the architectural runway.
You will be working with other Solution Architects outside the cluster such as R&D architects as well with our existing Solution Architect in the IPDS cluster. The role will be focusing on data flow from vehicles which indicates that the solutions and architectural runway you design will focus to support vehicle data.  
You will also participate in Program Increment (PI) Planning and Pre- and Post-PI Planning, System and Solution Demos, and Inspect and Adapt events where you support the teams as well as the Product Manager and Product Owners. 

Personal qualities
• Team player with an open, positive and service oriented mindset
• Structured way of working and delivering on time
• Customer-centric mindset
• Driven, you have the ability to take initiative and see your efforts through to resolution
• Ability to coach, guide and lead others. Leader experience is a must
• Building relationships within a varied community 
• Being visionary and motivational with ability to inspire and influence others

Requirements, knowledge & skills
• Understanding of key data concepts such as warehouses, marts, lakes, etc.
• Experience of challenges and possibilities using the cloud
• Bachelor in a relevant field
• Broad experience from defining architectures in multiple different platforms
• Experience from complex global environments
• Experience from managing stakeholders
• Ability to have a holistic architectural and business mindset
• Understand information and data lifecycles.
• Being forward looking within the business and research data and information spaces 
• Passionate to create an information eco-system 
• Ability to analyze information usage patterns and performance 

How to learn more and apply
Last application date – 3rd of October 2021. Please note we don’t accept CV’s over email due to gdpr – please apply using the career page. We are looking forward to your application!