Digital Product Owner - Integration Event Streaming

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
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’s in it for you?
We are looking for a passionate and technically skilled Digital Product Owner for the product Event Streaming within the cluster Integration Center of Enablement (ICoE).  As a Product Owner, you take full responsibility of our Event Streaming Product. The product is based on Apache KAFKA technology platform and provides streaming capabilities to any application at Volvo Cars.  The Event Streaming product resides within the Integration Center of Enablement Cluster which manages a set of integration platforms, currently 8 of them, where MQ, 3scale for APIM and KAFKA are the key platforms. The event steaming platform Kafka is the most recently established. We maintain and operate these platforms and self service portals to enable (state of the art) integration capabilities for all applications at Volvo Cars. 

The purpose of the role.  As a Product Owner, you are in constant dialogue with our business stakeholders globally, the IT community and with external parties to understand their needs and to help create solutions that support business objectives together with the rest of the teams within ICoE cluster.  Kafka is our most recent integration platform and still growing into maturity. As a Product Owner you will be responsible for providing the right platform capability; finetuning operational excellence, life-cycling, continue to develop our capabilities on the platform, platform architecture, roadmap, provisioning of application solutions, ensuring monitoring, logging and visualization, and by automation and improvements continuously keep the event streaming platform modern and fit for purpose. Also you and your team needs to support our organisation as it learns how to make optimal use of Kafka. A very important part of your role is also to support the development of the self service capability. 

What you’ll do
As you will have a diverse set of responsibilities in managing and developing the platform, developing our self service Portal, provisioning solutions for applications and supporting the organisations to become mature KAFKA users, you need to have knowledge and experience of event streaming and Apache Kafka technology, integration concepts and patterns, cloud computing as well as software architecture in general. Having good strategic thinking is naturally key to this role as you will be setting the roadmap for the product, strategically, financially as well as operationally.

Who you are: 
We believe you have extensive hands-on experience in integration concepts and technology with focus on event streaming and KAFKA platform and strategies and understands the global environment in which Volvo Cars operates. You have work experience in a leading position - driving digital product strategy as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or equivalent role for a minimum of 4 years.  Your dialogue with stakeholders is strong and well-articulated. You have worked with suppliers and are very comfortable with the dialogues related to both critical operations and development. You are experienced in agile development methodologies and SAFE framework and have worked in distributed and global product teams. You are data driven in your approach to decision making and measuring your successes. You are also fluent in English, both verbally and written. 

As a person, you are customer focused and passionate about solving their problems. You are flexible, creative, open to new ideas and always looking for ways to improve, and you love to initiate and drive transformation. You are energetic, have forward thinking and you push for innovation. You are excellent at communicating, presenting and relationship building with teams and global stakeholders. You have a holistic viewpoint and an ability to inspire and motivate others to achieve the team goals. Also, you are a kind and positive person, with a clear technical interest. We would definitely appreciate female applicants. 

How to learn more and apply
Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter no later than November 19th, 2022. Please note that due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications via email. 
For questions about the position, please contact Team Manager Louice Johansen, louice.johansen@volvocars.com. 
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Abigail Gonzalez, Abigail.gonzalez@volvocars.com.