WHAT YOU WILL BE DEALING WITH
- You will secure the overall architectural quality in the IT investment
- You will be responsible for fact-based architectural decisions that secure the business value and keeps the total cost of ownership of the IT investment as low as possible
- You will lead and coordinate the overall architectural work within projects, covering all included solutions
- You will deliver appropriate artifacts to clearly communicate business, information, application, integration and technology architectures typically in the context of projects
- You will raise architectural issues and concerns
- You will be supporting Enterprise Architects with defining the VFS target architecture
WHO YOU ARE
- In order to be successful in your new role, you provide:
- Recognized university-level degree in Computer Science or related field
- At least 3 years of experience as a solution architect
- At least 5 years of experience as a software architect/lead developer
- Experience running several solution architecture projects
- Experience leading a team through architectural decisions and implementations
- Some knowledge and understanding of the financial services industry
- Good communication skills, advanced level of English (oral and written)
- Ability to assure an architecture according to Volvo Group Target Architecture and the 10 Architectural Principles
- Leading skills to be a role model for the IT-solution development team in balancing business requirements and architectural decisions
- Capacity to present architectural decisions to technical and non-technical audiences
- Goal-oriented and positive attitude to deliver against targets
- Strong problem solving & analysis skills: identifying, structuring and tackling a problem situation
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Experience with Agile practices
- Good understanding of design patterns and principles