Business Architect

What you will do

Volvo Financial Services Global Headquarters is seeking a Senior Business Architect to join the Global Business Architecture team.

As a Business Architect, you will enable strategic transformation and deliver value for our customers and VFS. By championing our Strategy to Execution approach, you will help teams align their work to our business vision and accelerate safe, fossil free, and productive outcomes. You will also bring clarity to what we are doing and why—strengthening collaboration and focus across the organization.

Key responsibilities include:
•    Develop the knowledge base: shape and maintain the core business architecture framework and language, including key artifacts such as product, business model, value stream, and business capability maps.
•    Connect strategy to execution: bring clarity and transparency to the “why” behind decisions and link it to the outcomes we aim to achieve.
•    Drive cross functional alignment: partner with teams across the initiative lifecycle to define scope, objectives, business value, and required capabilities—ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
•    Support governance: provide guidance on business architecture standards and help ensure compliance with the VFS target architecture through participation in the VFS Design Authority process.
•    Serve as a trusted advisor: facilitate clear communication and shared understanding across teams to accelerate execution and maximize business impact.

Join us to help shape the future of VFS, making a meaningful difference for our customers and our business.

Your Future Team
You will report to the Business Architecture Center of Excellence Lead within VFS D&IT, a team with global responsibility. Digital & IT is central to the VFS business, and we are on a strategic journey to improve performance and deliver industry leading customer experience. We do this by focusing on digital innovation to meet customer needs in an increasingly digital world.

In many of our markets, VFS has earned the Great Place to Work award—where great work is done. By interacting with each other as onsite business, we build relationships, which allow us to work together more efficiently and form stronger bonds with our colleagues and customers. 

Preferred locations are Greensboro, NC (USA) and Gothenburg, Sweden.

Who are you?

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

You’ll be successful in this role if you bring the right mindset as well as the skills to work across teams and cultures:
•    Professionally aligned: strong understanding of the BIZBOK® Guide; you think in terms of value streams rather than only processes.
•    Global mindset: comfortable navigating complex, decentralized global structures and influencing stakeholders across cultures.
•    Collaborative and service oriented: you enjoy working with people, communicating clearly, and building a shared understanding.
•    Proactive and improvement minded: you take ownership, generate ideas, and make recommendations that improve productivity and efficiency.

Qualifications required to be successful in this role include:
•    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
•    Proven experience as a Business Architect or in a similar role, preferably within the finance sector of the automotive industry.
•    Strong understanding of business architecture frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
•    Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable strategies.
•    Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
•    Proficiency in enterprise architecture modeling tools and software.
•    Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards in the finance industry is a plus.
•    Open minded, creative thinker who can address complex challenges (e.g., using Design Thinking).
•    Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
•    Ability to act as a mentor.
•    CBA® (Certified Business Architect) certification is highly preferred.

Ready for the next move?

If you want to make a real impact in your career, Volvo Financial Services is where you want to be. We look forward to meeting you.