Solution Architect - Volvo Group Connected Solutions

Do you want to be part of a global organization leading the development of the
Volvo Group’s connected services and solutions? For us “connected for efficiency, sustainability and safety” is much more than a tag-line. If this sounds interesting to you, keep on reading!

At Volvo Group Connected Solutions, we work at the forefront of connectivity with data from more than 1 000 000 Volvo Group customer assets. Together with customers, partners and the Volvo Group we create real value, not only for our customers but also for society at large.

This is us, your new colleagues
As you can imagine, keeping track of over 1 000 000 connected customer assets rolling around the world is indeed a challenge. Now ponder, that vehicles in a few years will be autonomous – and you’ve got the challenge of your life. Consumer Services at Volvo Group Connected Solutions is responsible for the end user services, from idea to development and operation. Together with our partners and customers we create value through fantastic user experience and business enhancing services and products. Within Consumer Services we have the extraordinary great Tracking & Optimization team which manages the development and maintenance of our positioning, zone management and range prediction products – and your experience is needed.

We are now looking for a Solution Architect for the Range & Route product team within Tracking & Optimization.

Key responsibilities
The Tracking & Optimization service team consists of different product teams that delivers positioning services, zone management services, vehicle optimization services and range and route services. The main responsibility of the role is to bridge business problems and technical solutions within the product area for Range & Route. Also close collaboration with the Tracking & Optimization core team architect, the Range & Route product owner and the development teams. Finding the best solution for a business problem will be the core working process. In practice this means analysis, create design and enhance existing services for the future. The mentality of the role shall be to drive the design of micro services for the Range & Route product in Tracking & Optimization service team, learn our development platform and collaborate with many teams.
Features of the role are:
Through a holistic solution view, design services optimized both for business need, TCO and maintainability
Describe structures, characteristics, and other aspects of the design for involved development teams, both frontend and backend teams.
API design skills
End-2-End Flow Visualization
Drive reviews of architecture concepts and solutions
Perform presentation of solutions to stakeholders


Competence Profile & Qualifications
As a person we believe you are structured, innovative and have a strong technical focus in combination with a customer-oriented attitude. You like take responsibility and enjoy teamwork, solving our challenges together and contribute with team spirit!


Your personality is your major reason for success, but we also think you have:
A university degree in Computer science or similar
Experience from software engineering and agile development
Experience of fleet management systems and the Transport/Logistics domain area
You have several year’s documented experience from assignments in designing and developing systems in close cooperation with customers
Have a Java or Javascript development background
Developing and architecting with AWS Cloud Services
Ability to inspire, develop and motivate individuals and teams
Strong interest in process improvements and ability to create structure
Have capacity to execute against set targets and a “can do” attitude
Ability to establish and maintain good relations with your internal and external partners
You need to be fluent in English - both written and spoken. Basic skills in Swedish is preferred and you hold valid work-permit for Sweden, if not EU-citizen
And finally, but not the least, continuously reflect upon how we are doing things and where we can improve



What can we offer you?
You will be part of a team that creates great results through amazing people, strong relationships and a high-performance culture. We have a passion for people and making our customers succeed. We want to set a new standard for user experience, speed to market and customer value. We do this through modern leadership, people in focus and a true passion to really make a difference. We who work in this team have a lot of fun, are great collaborators and we all consider ourselves as leaders of our work and owners of our results. We are of course using the latest technologies delivering a very modern micro service based service platform hosted in the cloud. We use agile methods and as we are adopting the DevOps model your work will cover a broad spectrum, all the way from developing prototypes of future world class applications to managing the lifecycle of the existing ones.

Being based in Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg you will work in the heart of a vibrant area that lives and breathes new technology like IoT, autonomous driving, electromobility and digitalization.

Welcome to the heart of connectivity at Volvo Group Connected Solutions!

Want to know more? Contact us!
Please contact
Ulrika Törnqvist, Line Manager, +46 765 534363

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