System Architect (Cloud)

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 Connected Experience organization within R&D develop and deliver Infotainment, Connectivity and Car Cloud Platform and world-class digital user experience. ​​​​​​Our vision and strategy are to maximize the attractiveness of owning and using a Volvo, make all cars connected and provide a continuously enhanced experience for both new and existing cars.

Our Car Cloud Platform mission within the Department Car Cloud Platform and Remote Functions is to enable cloud services globally to contribute to the overall connected experience. We build, provide, and operate a highly secure run-time ecosystem for functions and applications serving our connected cars, and their users. We aim to optimize functional and organic growth by using standard cloud technologies with high level of synergies and re-use. With our car cloud solution, we provide cloud infrastructure, platform core & services to support software development lifecycle (DevOps) by providing tools for fast feedback & built-in quality.

Cloud technologies is therefore of paramount importance. We are responsible for developing and maintaining the car cloud platform as well as car-related functions running on the platform. We have architects and teams specializing in different technology areas in the end-2-end connectivity chain, and we are now looking for an Architect for our cloud platform, with the capability of having a holistic view and continuously drive the architectural evolution

What you´ll do

You will be a part of a network of architects across Volvo Cars, representing the Car Cloud Platform. You will, based on close collaboration with stakeholders, the Product Manager, the Product Owners, other Architects and the developing teams, be responsible for:
Developing and leading the implementation of architectural design patterns, methods and processes for cloud technologies
Drive the cloud arena, where we evaluate and take architectural decisions
Evaluate and recommend suppliers and tools in the area
Develop an end-2-end architecture for car connectivity
Work closely with business and strategy and develop architecture solutions to meet their vision
Define and drive future technical roadmap for the Connected Car Cloud
Create documents, specifications according to which solution is defined, created and managed
Help in defining and solving non-functional requirements
Take part in architectural reviews and support teams with architectural work

Tech we use daily within the ART:

SW Language: Java
Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot
Cloud Platform: AWS, Azure
Infrastructures: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), Istio
Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis
Log: Splunk
Middleware: Kafka, JMS, ActiveMQ-Artemis
Tools: GitLab, Kustomize, Grafana, Prometheus, PagerDuty, ArgoCD,
Task and Project/Code Management: GIT, Jira,
Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban), DevOps
Other: WebService (REST, gRPC), Junit Testing, Maven

Do you fit the profile?

For you to fully enjoy this opportunity, we believe that you have a background in software or information technology with at least a Master’s Degree or equivalent. You have a long professional experience in cloud technologies and an excellent knowledge in and hands-on experience of software development and software architecture. You have a proven ability to analyze and make recommendations for technical design, to collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders and to drive continuous improvements.

As you would be working closely both with our Leadership team including the Product Manager, our stakeholders, and our DevOps-teams, we believe you prefer working together in the office rather than remotely. And, since you will be working together with others both to set the way forward but also to see it through, we believe you have strong communication and collaboration skills.

You embrace teamwork, collaboration and are eager to learn and develop new competences. We also expect you to be on top of technology evolution within cloud infrastructure and software development and provide new ideas to continuously improve the product and our processes.