Digital Architect Europe Digital

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

Want to know more? We hope so
We’re excited to receive and review your application. Kindly apply for this position through our jobs portal, enclosing your CV in English before 29th October and note that due to GDPR we do not accept applications through email. There will be qualifying questions, therefore a motivation letter will not be required. Once you receive a confirmation email from the system, your application will be acknowledged.
Please note that selections will be running continuously so don’t delay with your application as we may withdraw the publication of the advert before the due date.

Volvo Cars - Driving change together
Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations so you can reach your full potential.

And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!