IT Architect

General skills required

• A strong personality and communicator
• Strong English written and oral communication skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
• Ability to meet the agreed targets, deadlines and goals without direct, day-to-day supervision
• Ability to work in an international team with colleagues that have diverse cultural backgrounds

Additional competencies and experience required

• Strong competence in designing and managing enterprise-level infrastructure solutions
• Strong competence of modern application and cloud solution architecture
• Experience with building architecture/solution roadmaps
• Experience from technical system solutions and overall design
• Experience from using frameworks like TOGAF, ITIL and modelling architecture using UML and ArchiMate standards

We can offer

You get an opportunity to work together with highly skilled colleagues in an exciting, global environment which provides opportunities to develop both professionally and personally. You will be a key player in the Volvo IOS organization. You will work in close collaboration with various stakeholders inside as well as outside the Volvo Group.

At Volvo Group, we are actively working to establish teams that will take maximum advantage of the strengths inherent in differences in knowledge, experience, age, gender and nationality. Volvo Group IT

Infrastructure & Onsite Services

Service Management

IT Architect, Application Hosting, Application Infrastructure

Volvo Group IT

Group IT governs the overall Process and IT efficiency within the Group. The function drives the usage of common processes, common IT systems and IT infrastructures.

Infrastructure & Onsite Services (IOS)

Infrastructure & Onsite Services is in charge of all Volvo Group IT infrastructure services. As the majority of these services are delivered by a partner, the mission is focused at governing and controlling this partner, as well as managing the remaining IT infrastructure delivery teams in Volvo.

Service Management

The mission of Service Management is to Develop and Govern the Infrastructure Services while ensuring their delivery and usage. By that, Service Management contributes to Volvo Group competitiveness by delivering standardized and fit for purpose infrastructure services, maintaining a balance between time to market, cost and quality.

We are now looking for one IT Architect for Application Hosting, Application Infrastructure

In this role, you will be reporting to the Director Application Infrastructure within Volvo Group IT/ Infrastructure & Onsite Services / Service Management. The Application Infrastructure Portfolio includes all infrastructure services enabling and supporting business applications.

The Application Infrastructure portfolio is divided into two sub-portfolios

The Application Hosting sub-portfolio - including on premise, hybrid cloud and public cloud, for all application hosting platforms used by the Volvo Group

The Data and Information sub-portfolio - including platforms for integration services, business intelligence, big data and analytics including artificial intelligence and machine learning

This IT Architect role will be located in the Application Hosting sub-portfolio.

Role mission & context

In this role, you will have the responsibility for the architecture of Volvo Group Application Infrastructure. In close relationship with the partner(s) in charge of the detailed technical architecture, you will identify, design and enforce architectural choices that can support Volvo long term strategy, while on the other hand preventing architectural choices that can be an obstacle to Volvo long term strategy.

You will be part of a team where you manage the Application Hosting infrastructure service portfolio. You will also work closely with other units within Volvo Group such as Solution Delivery units, CIO Office and Application method units.

Key responsibilities

Identify and manage infrastructure technical standards that are relevant to Volvo Group

Establish and maintain the long term technical architecture strategy and roadmaps for the area of responsibility, in collaboration with partner(s) and vendors

Securing infrastructure architecture compliance with corporate standards and directives

Infrastructure architecture quality assurance and making sure that EA certification is performed by the partner(s)

Contribute to the development of application infrastructure architecture and development guidelines

Support projects and development teams with infrastructure architecture design and recommendations, especially when introducing new technology and/or architecture

Contribute to service development or enhancement projects within the area of responsibility

Ensure documentation of the architecture landscape for the area of responsibility

The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines under the leading brands Volvo, Renault Trucks, Mack, UD Trucks, Eicher, SDLG, Terex Trucks, Prevost, Nova Bus, UD Bus, Sunwin Bus and Volvo Penta.

Volvo Group IT manages the Group’s overall IT strategies and plans and has the end-to-end responsibility for all development, delivery, support of IT solution and services for the Volvo Group.

We are more than 6000 people based in 36 countries working in a completely global organization. We are a team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.