Solution Architect

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.

Tech Lead / Solution Architect – Parts eCom
At Volvo Cars, we’re on a mission to make people’s lives less complicated. We design our services around people, and we innovate to provide mobility that is personal, sustainable and safe.

What’s in it for you?
In the Consumer Digital team, we work in customer-centric product teams to build products that make owning a car better. We work on products and platforms such as Volvo On Call, Connected Car Cloud Platform, Service Booking, Connected Safety, Customer Care Chat, Volvo ID, over-the-air updates, car connectivity, and APIs for building new innovative services.

In our daily work, we are working according to the SAFe (scaled agile framework) framework with 12 weeks program increment. The position is located in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Many of the people you will be working with have experience from start-ups and global tech companies such as Spotify, Google, Microsoft and Ericsson.
We are now looking for a Tech Lead / Solution Architect in the Parts eCom team. You will be working with a group of skilled developers, currently engaged in agile product development enabling the parts eCommerce platform.

What we offer
The Parts eCom team within Volvo Cars Service Operations area will utilize the Spare Parts Data Management product and Spare parts catalogue to build the parts eCommerce platform.

What you will do
-Work as a Tech Lead/Solution Architect within Parts eCom team from design to delivery.
-Provide effort estimates and solution approaches for different scenarios and integrations.
-Position solutions and options to business stakeholders
-Lead development process, solution design and build implementation towards the on-budget, on-time, high quality deliveries.
-Play a direct role in stakeholder communications and expectation/scope management.
-Participate in requirements analysis and documentation and development of acceptance criteria.
-Direct development methodology and play a role of technical leader within the team.
-Contribute to and execute on processes and practices towards delivery excellence, team happiness & stakeholder satisfaction.
-Supervise, mentor and coach Developers
-Act as a positive and supportive force within the team.

You and your skills
-You should have a global work experience in Information, Process & Technology sphere with domains of Data Management, Business Intelligence & Data Science, preferably within Automotive Industry.
-You should also have experience to lead a cross-functional team through the agile product development lifecycle for building microservices on top of managed key information assets.
-You have bachelor’s degree or corresponding knowledge obtained by practical experience.
-Successful delivery of Ecommerce projects
-Ability to coordinate activities needed to launch a successful Ecommerce project
-Client-facing experience
-Ability to communicate, produce documentation, prepare and lead client sessions, etc.
-Ability to sell technical concepts, sell our team and our capabilities to business stakeholders
-You are fluent in English; both written and spoken.

Tools & Technology
Productivity - Microsoft office suit, Azure DevOps
Analytics - Power BI, Azure Cloud suit
Database - SQL (all major RDBMS, like MS SQL, Oracle)
Collaboration - Teams, Slack, Confluence
Microsoft .NET Stack (C#, ASP, ADO)
Business Domains - Automotive, Process Modelling
Tech Areas - Data Management, Business Intelligence, Data Science (Statistics), Business & Information Architecture
Executions Methodology – Agile


How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position please contact hiring manager Håkan Sterner at Hakan.sterner.2@volvocars.com or recruiter Keerthi Veeraraghavan at keerthi.veeraraghavan@volvocars.com. We want your application at the latest 24th of October 2021. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted due to GDPR.

On a personal level

For this position, you need to have a very good communication skills, curiousness and a personal eagerness to investigate, learn and drive for change to be able to accomplish results. You are driven and have a passion for continuous improvements in your daily work. A sense for good logic and structured way of working will be important in this role, as well as a high ability to work in teams, individually and multicultural.