Data Architect - Volvo Group Digital & IT

What you will do

At Group Digital & IT, you will contribute to the digital transformation of our company, the transport industry, and society at large. 

Data is the core component of the Volvo Group's digital transformation journey. In Group Digital & IT, we deliver value by fulfilling business needs within different data and analytics domains, in close collaboration with our key stakeholders and users.

Your key responsibilities in this role:

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and future-proof data architectures.
• Design enterprise-level solution and architecture blueprints, ensuring alignment with business strategy and compliance standards.
• Define and design data integration patterns, pipelines, and frameworks leveraging Azure services, Databricks, and GenAI ecosystem.
• Establish architecture principles and best practices for data processing, transformation, and storage across distributed systems.
• Integrate advanced capabilities, including APIs and AI models, into enterprise workflows while ensuring architectural integrity.
• Collaborate on DevOps strategy for data platforms, guiding CI/CD pipeline design, deployment automation, and environment configurations for data and AI applications.
• Support governance processes, including preparing architecture artifacts for different review boards and authorities and secure alignment.

Your future team

You will be part of a high performing team of skilled data professionals, such as Data Architects, Data Engineers, ML engineers & Data Analysts. You will closely collaborate with Digital Product Managers and Owners from Volvo Penta.This role is based in Göteborg, Sweden, and requires you to work on-site at our office.

In order to succeed in this role, we belive you have: 

• Demonstrated experience as a Data Architect or in a senior data engineering role with architectural responsibilities on large-scale implementations.
• Deep expertise in Azure Data Services, Databricks, and related cloud technologies & tool ecosystem.
• Advanced proficiency in data modeling techniques, including relational, dimensional, NoSQL & GraphDB models.
• Strong knowledge of API design, event-driven architectures, and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka).
• Familiarity with AI/ML integration, enabling seamless incorporation of AI models into enterprise workflows.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Azure DevOps, and infrastructure automation.
• Skilled in SQL, Python, and PySpark for data engineering and architectural validation.
• Solid understanding of data governance frameworks, GDPR compliance, and cloud security best practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.Ability to produce wireframes, architectural diagrams, and comprehensive documentation for governance and review processes.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Enterprise Architecture Frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman.

What’s in it for you?

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

This bullet-pointed section should answer the following questions. You may ask team members what they enjoy. 
•    Describe how you care for people and value their wellbeing. 
•    Talk about the atmosphere in the team together with the flexible arrangements and work life balance you offer. 
•    Highlight the opportunities to develop, build a career and work globally or cross-functionally. 
•    Relate to location, physical work environment and services on site when they are selling points. 

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.

Last application date: 2026-01-08. Please note that we won´t review applications until after the last application date due to the holiday period.