Senior Data Architect - Data Products & AI Solutions

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.

What you will do

We are building a new Data & AI team focused on delivering end-to-end use cases, from onboarding data onto our Azure-based platform and building Data Products to enabling 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.

Who are you?

Do you dream big? We do too, and we are excited to grow together. In this role, you will bring:

Technical Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as Data Architect or similar senior architecture role.
• Strong experience with modern cloud-based data platforms, preferably Azure and Databricks.
• Deep understanding of Data Products, data governance, data modeling, integration patterns and analytics architectures.
• Experience designing scalable data solutions supporting analytics, reporting and AI use cases.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services such as Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Azure Functions and related services.
• Proficiency in SQL and a good understanding of Python and Spark.
• Familiarity with modern Data & AI architecture patterns, including batch and streaming data processing.
• Understanding security and identity concepts, including Entra ID, Managed Identities, Service Principals, OAuth 2.0, Key Vault and Single Sign-On.
• 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.

We believe great results come from working together. At Volvo Group, our teams collaborate mainly from our sites, where innovation, learning, and teamwork thrive.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a solid package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy:

• Collaborative environment in Swedish organizational culture
• Work-life balance: we make sure you enjoy quality time away from work
• Equipment and tools needed in everyday work
• Clear career path & extended competence development package (training, mentorship, conferences, internal upskilling programs, certificates)
• Private healthcare
• Volvo League: We run team games in various sports
• Participation in international projects and different pieces of training

Ready for the next move?

If you want to make a real impact in your career, the transportation business is where you want to be. We look forward to meeting you.

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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 established to integrate the capabilities of VG Digital & IT and VG Connected Solutions to accelerate the digital transformation in Volvo Group. 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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