Senior Solution Architect - Volvo Group Connected Solutions
Göteborg, SE, 417 55
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.
Do you want to be part of a global organization leading the development of the
Volvo Group’s connected services and solutions? For us “connected for efficiency, sustainability and safety” is much more than a tag-line. If this sounds interesting to you, keep on reading!
At Volvo Group Connected Solutions, we work at the forefront of connectivity with data from more than 1 800 000 Volvo Group customer assets. Together with customers, partners and the Volvo Group we create real value, not only for our customers but also for society at large.
This is us, your new colleagues
As you can imagine, keeping track of over 1 800 000 connected customer assets rolling around the world is indeed a challenge. Together with our partners and customers we create value through fantastic user experience and business enhancing premium services and products.
Map Tracking team, in the Transport & Fleet area, is responsible for developing and maintaining our positioning service, a premium tracking service in the map, that enhance our customers business – and your experience is needed.
We are now looking for a Solution Architect for the Map Tracking product team
Key responsibilities
The main responsibility of the role is to bridge business problems and technical solutions within the product area for Map Tracking.
Tight collaboration with the Map Tracking core team and the development teams is needed, and so also a close collaboration with our sister teams, that develop products that have dependencies to the map.
Finding the best solution for a business problem will be the core working process. In practice this means analysis, create design and enhance existing services for the future and innovating for new features. The mentality of the role shall be to drive the design of micro services for the Map Tracking product in Tracking & Planning area, learn our development platform and collaborate with many teams.
Characteristics of the role are:
- Through a holistic solution view, design services optimized both for business need, costs and maintainability
- Describe structures, characteristics and other aspects of the design for development teams, both frontend and backend
- Drive reviews of architecture concepts and solutions
- Perform presentation of solutions to stakeholders
Competence Profile & Qualifications
As a person we believe you are structured, innovative and have a strong technical focus in combination with a customer-oriented attitude. You like take responsibility and enjoy teamwork, solving our challenges together and contribute with team spirit!
Your personality is your major reason for success, but we also think you have:
- A university degree in Computer science or similar
- Experience from software engineering and agile development
- Experience of fleet management systems and the Transport/Logistics domain area
- You have several year’s documented experience from assignments in designing and developing systems in close cooperation with customers
- Have a Java & JavaScript development background
- Ability to inspire, develop and motivate individuals and teams
- Strong interest in process improvements and ability to create structure
- Have capacity to execute against set targets and a “can do” attitude
- Ability to establish and maintain good relations with your internal and external partners
- You need to be fluent in English - both written and spoken. Basic skills in Swedish are preferred, and you hold valid work-permit for Sweden, if not EU-citizen.
- And finally, but not the least, continuously reflect upon how we are doing things and where we can improve
What can we offer you?
You will be part of a team that creates great results through amazing people, strong relationships and a high-performance culture. We have a passion for people and making our customers succeed. We want to set a new standard for user experience, speed to market and customer value. We do this through modern leadership, people in focus and a true passion to really make a difference. We who work in this team have a lot of fun, are great collaborators and we all consider ourselves as leaders of our work and owners of our results. We are of course using the latest technologies delivering a very modern micro service-based service platform hosted in the cloud. We use agile methods and as we are adopting the DevSecOps model your work will cover a broad spectrum, all the way from developing prototypes of future world class applications to managing the lifecycle of the existing ones.
Being based in Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg you will work in the heart of a vibrant area that lives and breathes new technology like IoT, autonomous driving, electromobility and digitalization.
Welcome to the heart of connectivity at Volvo Group Connected Solutions!
Want to know more? Contact us!
Please contact:
Ulrika Törnqvist, Line Manager, +46 765 534363
Last application date: 2025-12-12
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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.
At Volvo Group Connected Solutions we drive transportation forward through connectivity. Our services and solutions are the key to a connected and more productive infrastructure, to ensure safer transport and reduced carbon emissions. By leveraging massive amounts of data from our customers connected assets, we are leading the way in a rapidly changing industry.