Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
Role Summary – Senior Data Architect
We are expanding our Data & AI team focused on delivering data use cases around automotive truck systems analysis. In this role, you will work with data generated from software deployments in commercial trucks, including deployment telemetry, diagnostic logs, error analysis and operational insights. You will help onboard data onto our Azure-based platform, build Power BI reports and Data Products, and enable advanced analytics and AI solutions. We are looking for a Data Architect who is curious, open-minded and comfortable working across different domains and technologies. This role requires someone who can bring people together, challenge assumptions, ask the right questions and provide architectural leadership as we expand our Data & AI capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic architectural leadership for the Data and AI landscape, taking an end-to-end view across business, data, technology, analytics and AI solutions.
- Define and drive the target architecture and long-term technology direction for the Data and AI, ensuring scalability, integration, reuse and sustainable growth.
- Shape effective use of our modern data platform based on Azure and Databricks, enabling trusted, governed and reusable data to support Data Products, analytics and AI solutions.
- Establish architectural principles and ensure alignment with Volvo Group Data Model, Volvo Enterprise Reference Architecture, enterprise standards and security requirements, while translating them into pragmatic solutions for the Volvo environment.
- Identify and manage cross-domain dependencies, architectural risks and opportunities, ensuring consistency and coherence across Data and AI ecosystems.
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders, influencing decisions and challenging existing approaches where needed.
- Translate complex business needs into clear, scalable and implementable architectural strategies, balancing innovation with governance, security, cost and technical feasibility.
- Lead and orchestrate collaboration between business stakeholders, Data Product teams, architects, engineers and external partners, creating alignment across multiple initiatives.
- Drive architectural maturity and continuous improvement by establishing common standards, reusable patterns, and ways of working that enable the organization to scale its Data and AI capabilities.
Technical Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Data Architect or in a similar senior architecture role.
- Strong expertise in data architecture, data modeling and data platform design, including dimensional modeling (Kimball, star schema), medallion architecture, ETL processing, Data Products, data governance, integration patterns, analytics architectures, and modern Data & AI architecture patterns for batch and streaming data processing.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable data solutions supporting analytics, reporting (Power BI), and AI use cases.
- Strong expertise in Azure Databricks and Azure data platforms, including platform setup and management (subscriptions, resource groups, Azure Storage), Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, PySpark, compute clusters, orchestration, Databricks Genie, GitHub Copilot AI-assisted development, and access management.
- Strong knowledge of Azure data and integration services, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Azure Functions, and related Azure platform services.
- Understanding security, identity, and secrets management for data platforms, including Entra ID users and groups, Managed Identities, Service Principals, OAuth 2.0, Single Sign-On (SSO), Azure Key Vault, and secrets management.
- Proficiency in SQL and a good understanding of Python and Apache Spark.
- Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders and delivery teams.
What Will Help You Succeed
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to connect business strategy, data, analytics and AI into a coherent architectural vision.
- Comfortable working in a fast-changing environment and shaping new ways of working.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive alignment without direct authority.
- Curious, open-minded and willing to explore unfamiliar domains and technologies.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to bring together business stakeholders, architects, engineers and Data Product teams around common goals.
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations (DTO) is a new division. The organizational set up is structured around domains, digital products with functions for digital excellence to deliver outstanding customer experience.
Joining the new DTO division means being part of a fast-moving digital product-oriented organization where teams truly own what they build from idea to delivery. In DTO, we work in agile, cross-functional teams, mastering the latest technology, and creating outstanding digital experiences that make a real difference for our colleagues and Volvo Group customers around the world. We put people first and build our culture on trust, passion, customer success, change, and performance. If you want to grow, collaborate across functions and entities, and help shape the future of digital products within Volvo Group, DTO is a great place to be.
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