Senior Data Architect
Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Data Engineering · Data Science · Software Architecture
In short
Volvo Group is seeking a Senior Data Architect in Wroclaw, Poland, to provide strategic architectural leadership for their Data & AI landscape. This role involves defining target architecture for a modern Azure and Databricks-based platform, enabling data products, analytics, and AI solutions, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure scalability and alignment with enterprise standards.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic architectural leadership for the Data and AI landscape, with an end-to-end view across business, data, technology, analytics, and AI solutions.
- Define and drive the target architecture and long-term technology direction for Data and AI, ensuring scalability, integration, reuse, and sustainable growth.
- Shape effective use of the modern data platform based on Azure and Databricks, enabling trusted, governed, and reusable data to support Data Products, analytics, and AI solutions.
- Establish architectural principles and ensure alignment with Volvo Group Data Model, Volvo Enterprise Reference Architecture, enterprise standards, and security requirements.
- Identify and manage cross-domain dependencies, architectural risks, and opportunities, ensuring consistency and coherence across Data and AI ecosystems.
- Act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior business and technology stakeholders, influencing decisions and challenging existing approaches.
- Translate complex business needs into clear, scalable, and implementable architectural strategies, balancing innovation with governance, security, cost, and technical feasibility.
- Lead and orchestrate collaboration between business stakeholders, Data Product teams, architects, engineers, and external partners.
- Drive architectural maturity and continuous improvement by establishing common standards, reusable patterns, and ways of working.
Requirements
- Proven experience as Data Architect or similar senior architecture role.
- Strong experience with modern cloud-based data platforms, preferably Azure and Databricks.
- Deep understanding of Data Products, data governance, data modeling, integration patterns, and analytics architectures.
- Experience designing scalable data solutions supporting analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
- Strong knowledge of Azure services such as Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Azure Functions, and related services.
- Proficiency in SQL and a good understanding of Python and Spark.
- Familiarity with modern Data & AI architecture patterns, including batch and streaming data processing.
- Understanding of security and identity concepts, including Entra ID, Managed Identities, Service Principals, OAuth 2.0, Key Vault, and Single Sign-On.
- Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple stakeholders and delivery teams.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to connect business strategy, data, analytics, and AI into a coherent architectural vision.
- Comfortable working in a fast-changing environment and shaping new ways of working.
- Ability to influence decisions and drive alignment without direct authority.
- Curious, open-minded and willing to explore unfamiliar domains and technologies.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to bring together business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and Data Product teams around common goals.
Benefits
- Solid package of compensation and benefits
- Collaborative environment in Swedish organizational culture
- Work-life balance
- Equipment and tools needed in everyday work
- Clear career path & extended competence development package (training, mentorship, conferences, internal upskilling programs, certificates)
- Private healthcare
- Volvo League: Team games in various sports
- Participation in international projects and different pieces of training
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Company
Volvo Group
Job Posted
1 week ago
Employment Type
Full Time
WorkMode
On Site
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Wroclaw, Poland
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