Digital Architect Europe Digital

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.

We are People who want to make a difference
At Volvo Cars, we are always looking for world-class leaders who bring out the best in our people. If you want to be part of leading and inspiring our mission to change the automotive experience and make people’s lives less complicated, then we have the job for you.

Europe Digital – Let’s introduce ourselves
Do you like working in the intersection between business functions, digital teams and markets? Do you excel at working with new business demands and finding digital solutions to challenges, ensuring that multiple cross-functional teams are driving towards the same business goals? 

Come and join Europe Digital, a part of our business Commercial Digital unit. Europe Digital works with the mission to secure, develop and launch smart digital services & solutions to our 20 markets across Europe. We are a small team, working together with our business partners and digital colleagues on a Market, Regional and Global level to find efficient digital solutions to enhance our business processes across markets. We balance and find the right mixture of global & corporate strategies with local contexts, regional business needs and local entrepreneurship to maximize the customer satisfaction and revenue streams for the company. 

What you’ll do
As a Digital Architect, you will be part of a network of specialists and architects across Volvo Cars covering multiple business domains. You will be responsible for providing guidance and advising business areas in solution, infrastructure and data architecture best practice, ensuring they align to Volvos standards and guidelines. The key is data, and you will be identifying, optimize and advice on data flows, data transformation processes and data pipelines by collaboratively specify data integrations for systems and data products with business areas and/or hub & spokes. 

Leadership is an important part of this role. You will collaborate and engage with business stakeholders, solution partners, data engineers and architects. You build trust, maintain transparency, and ensure all involved stakeholders have the information and context they need to make informed decisions.

What you’ll bring
•    Solid experience as a digital architect/digital advisor/solution architect in a complex digital end-to-end environment
•    Proven regional experience, working with markets, as well as understanding of the collaboration between business and digital stakeholders
•    Possess an understanding of how to translate business goals and needs into data architectural deliverables
•    Knowledgeable and passionate about modern architectural practices and believe in a pragmatic approach to data architecture
•    Experience being a strong communicator, with competence in explaining complex concepts to business stakeholders with the ability to influence decision-making at management levels in a variety of contexts