Senior Data Architect - Automotive Data & Software Telemetry

Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Data Engineering · Data Science · Software Engineering

In short

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to join our Data & AI team, focusing on automotive truck systems analysis using data from software deployments. You will provide architectural leadership for our Azure-based platform, design scalable data solutions, and enable advanced analytics and AI. The role requires expertise in data architecture, Azure Databricks, and data modeling to drive innovation and collaboration.

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 for 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 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.
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 a Data Architect or in a similar senior architecture role.
Strong expertise in data architecture, data modeling, and data platform design, including dimensional modeling (Kimball, star schema), medallion architecture, ETL processing, Data Products, data governance, integration patterns, analytics architectures, and modern Data & AI architecture patterns for batch and streaming data processing.
Experience designing and implementing scalable data solutions supporting analytics, reporting (Power BI), and AI use cases.
Strong expertise in Azure Databricks and Azure data platforms, including platform setup and management (subscriptions, resource groups, Azure Storage), Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, PySpark, compute clusters, orchestration, Databricks Genie, GitHub Copilot AI-assisted development, and access management.
Strong knowledge of Azure data and integration services, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage, Event Hubs, Azure Functions, and related Azure platform services.
Understanding of security, identity, and secrets management for data platforms, including Entra ID users and groups, Managed Identities, Service Principals, OAuth 2.0, Single Sign-On (SSO), Azure Key Vault, and secrets management.
Proficiency in SQL and a good understanding of Python and Apache Spark.
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

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

Skills

Azure DatabricksAzure Data FactoryAzure StorageDelta LakePySparkSQLPythonApache SparkPower BIUnity CatalogGitHub CopilotOAuth 2.0Single Sign-On (SSO)Azure Key VaultEntra ID

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About Volvo Group

The Volvo Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of trucks, buses, construction equipment and marine and industrial engines. The Group also provides complete solutions for financing and service. The Volvo Group, with its headquarters in Gothenburg, employs about 100,000 people, has production facilities in 18 countries and sells its products in more than 190 markets.\n\n

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