Senior Solution Architect

"Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to driving prosperity and shaping the future landscape through sustainable transport, mobility, and infrastructure solutions. By offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity.

Our headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Group shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm."

Introduction
Are you interested in digitalization, people and making a difference? Do you want to work with a bunch of incredibly driven, passionate, and skilled people? Great! Volvo Group is now searching for a Solution Architect within the aftermarket domain. 
You will be part of an engaged team consisting of people from Service market logistics together with Group Digital & IT that are dedicated in launching next generation of planning solution for the aftermarket of AB Volvo.

Who are you?

You are a senior person with a genuine technical background including a number of years of experience from development and IT architecture.
You have documentation skills and can explain complex problems in a way that people understand. Since PlanIT is a product in the middle of a quite complex structure you need to have a holistic view to assure uptime from end to end perspective.
You are open-minded, positive, creative, and a person that makes a difference.  You can take decisions quickly and enjoy solving problems while collaborating with your network to deliver high quality solutions. You have a strong drive to continuously challenge and improve.   

Responsibilities:

* Make fact-based architectural decisions assuring maximal business value and at the same time assure consistency throughout the product.
* Ensure that the solution design is in line with the Volvo Group target architecture (North Star) and architectural principles.
* Ensure usage of shared technical standards, tools, and platforms.
* Manage IT integration solutions using relevant platforms, support services, methods and guidelines.
* Proactively identify architectural issues and concerns and define cost efficient, pragmatic and appropriate solutions.
* Drive technical agenda of portfolio and ensure correct prioritization of technical issues in backlog refinement team.
* Define technical standards and practices that should be applied in the development process.

Required competencies:

* Strong Solution Architecture patterns knowledge and experience as a Solution Architect.
* Cloud Architecture knowledge (Azure) for Analytics Solutions.
* Experience with Event Driven Architecture (EDA) patterns.
* Experience of integration patterns for data streaming, API communication etc.
* Leadership skills to guide and collaborate effectively with DevOps teams.
* A university degree in Computer science or similar.

Nice to have:
* Python/JAVA knowledge and its usage for analytics solutions.
* Knowledge of working with NoSQL databases (CosmosDB).
* Microservice architecture knowledge and experience
* Experience with container orchestration like Kubernetes or OpenShift. Apache Spark knowledge.

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Who we are and what we believe in 
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Group Digital & IT is the hub for digital development within Volvo Group. Imagine yourself working with cutting-edge technologies in a global team, represented in more than 30 countries. We are dedicated to leading the way of tomorrow’s transport solutions, guided by a strong customer mindset and high level of curiosity, both as individuals and as a team. Here, you will thrive in your career in an environment where your voice is heard and your ideas matter.