Senior Data Architect — AI & Data Products

Volvo Group; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Swedish culture collaboration

Work-life balance

Equipment provided

Career development

Volvo League

International projects

Job summary

Volvo Group in Wroclaw, Poland, invites an experienced Senior Data Architect to shape our Data Products & AI solutions on an Azure-based platform. You will lead end-to-end architectural strategies across data, analytics and AI, aligning with enterprise standards and security.

You will collaborate with Data Product teams, engineers and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into scalable data platforms, drive governance, and foster innovation in a fast-moving, global environment.

Qualifications

• 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 security and identity concepts, including Entra ID, Managed Identities, Service Principals, OAuth 2.0, Key Vault and Single Sign-On.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic architectural leadership for the Data and AI landscape, taking 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 the Data and AI, ensuring scalability, integration, reuse and sustainable growth.
• Shape effective use of our 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, while translating them into pragmatic solutions for the Volvo environment.
• 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 where needed.
• 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, creating alignment across multiple initiatives.
• Drive architectural maturity and continuous improvement by establishing common standards, reusable patterns, and ways of working that enable the organization to scale its Data and AI capabilities.

Skills

Azure

Databricks

SQL

Python

Spark

Azure Data Factory

Azure Storage

Event Hubs

Security concepts

Data governance

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Storage

Event Hubs

Azure Functions

Key Vault

OAuth 2.0

Job description

Volvo Group in Wroclaw, Poland, invites an experienced Senior Data Architect to shape our Data Products & AI solutions on an Azure-based platform. You will lead end-to-end architectural strategies across data, analytics and AI, aligning with enterprise standards and security.

You will collaborate with Data Product teams, engineers and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into scalable data platforms, drive governance, and foster innovation in a fast-moving, global environment.