Service Architect Test & Dev Services

The Test & Dev department helps thousands of engineers to code and move projects faster, as well as create a sustainable architecture that is both highly available and flexible. We support several hundreds of applications, where the goal is to deliver consistently and instantly. The delivery is performed in a service model providing a multitude of building blocks ready to be used by our engineers.

In this role you will be required to master all of these building blocks, be primarily responsible for some, including integration & development and life cycle management, and to support all other at an advanced expert level. Examples of current building block responsibilities could be Gerrit, Maven or Gradle as well as Jenkins or Artifactory. The department works with a number of technique frameworks where Java and .Net are common, as well as standard automotive frameworks more oriented towards C and Model Based, where an increase in C++ related tasks is anticipated. Improvements in the building blocks requires implementation among the broad user base, the software developers, and it's an important task for the Service Architect to drive, participate and facilitate these change projects. A large part of the role is to develop the future state of the tool chain, and to be up to date with the absolutely latest techniques available is a natural part of this role. The enterprise part is also integral to this role, solutions needs to be beneficial to the whole enterprise not just a single project, so a keen sense of suitability for standards and automation is needed, keeping in mind that a specific solution might not be the best practice overall.

Main responsibilities

As a Service Architect within Test & Development Services you are responsible for executing and contributing to strategies, defining the current and future design and ensure that the documentation and design adheres to Volvo Cars Group IT standards. This role will foremost concern the highly technical parts of the department, concentrated to DEV, CM, and TEST and enable these capabilities as coherent future development platforms.

Required Qualifications

.University Degree or equivalent experience
.Profound knowledge of software development and engineering software development environments
.Profound knowledge in development, application and technology architectures
.Understand and know the upcoming trends in Software Development environments, including development frameworks, source code management, build & test management and artefact management
.Understand and predict the end user use cases, drawing on Software Development trends as well as developing engineering requirements
.Understand how the services are / should be composed (infrastructure & platforms, applications, data, integrations)
.Understand distributed software development, and associated technology areas as virtualization and cloud
.Documented working experience including at least some of the services in the group (test, source code mgmt, build, artefact mgmt, open source mgmt, collaboration tools, development)
.Experience from Open Source, proprietary systems and embedded development systems

Personal Qualities

.Inspire and coach individuals and teams
.Enable international collaboration with the global community
.Bring your team to the higher levels of high performance and efficiency
.Excellent ability to take initiatives, plan and execute
.High interest and ambition in both leadership and technology
.Excellent ability to build good relations to executives, colleagues, customers and project teams
.Ability to deal with customers in a professional manner and to deliver in time with high quality (service oriented)
.Demonstrates, encourages and rewards openness, respect and willingness to question own suppositions and established ways of thinking
.A global and flexible mind set/attitude and cultural and diversity awareness
.Self-motivated and strong driving force for driving change and implementation

Meritorious

.Good knowledge of ITIL
.Experience of agile processes and DevOps
.Experience within the automotive sector and embedded systems

Contact

For questions about the job please contact Jessica Hofbauer, Senior IT Manager Test & Development Services, +46313254121. For questions about the recruitment process please contact Andreas Antefelt +46 728 889894. Please apply by register your application as soon as possible but no later than May 29th, 2017.