Enterprise Architect

Can you engineer a brighter tomorrow?
It's crystal clear: the actions we take in the next few years will significantly impact our future. At Volvo Cars, we embrace change. We're committed to transforming the automotive industry and leading in electrification. For this, we're seeking out more creative minds to shape that future. Don't miss this opportunity to create your tomorrow.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides guidance and support in shaping a business-aligned digital ecosystem, fostering collaboration between business and technology functions to enable the organisation's strategy.

EA emphasises the importance of data-driven decision-making, ensuring that strategic and operational choices are informed by reliable data and insights.

Rather than prescribing rigid structures, EA encourages a shared understanding and flexible integration of business, information, application, data, and technology architecture, supporting innovation and adaptability as the digital landscape evolves.

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture across business, data, application, and technology domains.
• Translate strategy into architectural roadmaps, enablers, and guardrails.
• Establish and govern enterprise principles, patterns, and standards.
• Guide teams to ensure designs align with target architecture.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, and dependencies.
• Provide architectural input to investment planning and governance.
• Embed security, privacy, resilience, performance, and cost considerations into designs.
• Focus relentlessly on reducing complexity and accelerate delivery.
• Surface and help resolve cross-organizational dependencies early.
• Frame options and trade-offs to enable timely decisions.
• Balance delivery needs with long-term architectural integrity.
• Communicate complex topics clearly to diverse audiences.
• Apply economic thinking to recommendations and decisions.
• Foster transparency through documentation, knowledge sharing, and architectural thinking.
• Build trusted relationships with business and technology leaders.
• Mentor architects and elevate the architecture practice.

• Demonstrated experience developing target states and transition roadmaps for complex ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise capabilities, business architecture, and value streams.
• Proficiency in reference architectures and patterns for integration, data, security, and cloud-native platforms.
• Practical knowledge of identity and access management, cybersecurity, data privacy, and compliance.
• Hands-on familiarity with distributed systems, scalability, operability, and reliability engineering concerns.
• Experience applying fit-for-purpose governance to create guardrails without stifling delivery.
• Ability to deliver clear, communicated enterprise guidance and principles.
• Track record of establishing governed standards and patterns adopted by delivery teams.
• Experience reducing duplication and technical debt through reuse and rationalization.
• Proven ability to improve time-to-value and risk posture via aligned designs and roadmaps.

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Volvo Cars. For Life.
For nearly a century, Volvo Cars has empowered people to move freely in a personal, sustainable and safe way. Today, we are driving bold advancements in electrification, sustainability and automotive safety. To realise our ambitious vision, we are seeking innovative minds who are ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow – today.

In our company, we believe extraordinary things are achieved by ordinary people with the drive to make a difference.

Ready to take the next step?
Submit your CV in English and tell us why you're the ideal candidate for a new role at Volvo Cars. We are prioritising direct applications to ensure a fair and efficient application process.

We welcome your application