Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
As the Principal Enterprise Architect - Business & Information, you will help Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America make better business and technology decisions by bringing business, information, application, and enterprise context to significant choices before major commitments are made.
You will connect strategy and prioritized business outcomes to capabilities, value streams, information, applications, and transformation direction. Success is measured by better decisions, earlier alignment, and fewer avoidable surprises - not by the volume of architecture artifacts produced.
Core Responsibilities
Responsibility examples of the Principal Enterprise Architect - Business & Information Architecture:
- Support significant decisions: Partner with business and product leaders to clarify intended outcomes, evaluate viable alternatives, and make material dependencies, risks, costs, assumptions, and tradeoffs visible before major commitments are made.
- Lead Business Architecture: Connect strategy and business outcomes to capabilities, value streams, operating models, initiatives, and investments, and develop practical target direction and transformation sequencing.
- Lead Information Architecture: Clarify important business-information concepts, ownership, authoritative sources, quality expectations, lifecycle, information flows, protection, and reuse.
- Identify enterprise consequences across domains: Surface duplication, fragmentation, dependencies, and opportunities to appropriately reuse existing capabilities, information, products, applications, platforms, technologies, and services.
- Provide enterprise context for significant technology and platform decisions: Collaborate with DTO, Solution Architects, and Technical Leads while preserving detailed solution-design and delivery accountability.
- Engage early and proportionately: Support significant decisions and established architecture or governance forums with the level of analysis appropriate to the significance and consequences of the decision.
- Maintain decision-relevant architecture knowledge: Use SAP LeanIX and other appointed repositories, models, roadmaps, diagrams, and architecture views to support decisions rather than documentation for its own sake.
As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you are expected to:
- Operate across multiple business and architecture domains and identify enterprise implications that may not be visible within an individual product, function, or delivery team.
- Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to senior business, product, and technology leaders on significant decisions, investments, and transformations.
- Lead complex and ambiguous engagements where the problem, desired outcome, ownership, dependencies, or viable alternatives may not yet be clear.
- Influence significant decisions through expertise, analysis, facilitation, relationships, and recommendations rather than formal decision authority.
- Establish direction, mentor others, and advance Business Architecture, Information Architecture, and decision-oriented Enterprise Architecture practices.
Business domains may include Dealer-facing digital products and services, Truck Sales, Parts Sales, Service Contracts and Support, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and other commercial or aftermarket areas based on business priorities.
The role works across domain boundaries and with Truck Brands and Volvo Group where decisions have broader enterprise implications.
The Principal Enterprise Architect - Business & Information Architecture demonstrates:
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Business & Leadership: Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, executive communication, stakeholder influence, constructive challenge, and the ability to develop a strong understanding of the supported business.
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Decision Support: Decision framing, alternatives and tradeoff analysis, dependency analysis, facilitation, and the ability to work effectively through ambiguity and competing priorities.
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Business Architecture: Business capabilities, value streams, operating models, strategy-to-execution alignment, target direction, and transformation planning.
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Information Architecture: Business-information concepts, ownership, authoritative sources, quality, lifecycle, information flows, protection, and reuse.
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Enterprise Architecture: Application, integration, platform, lifecycle, reuse, and cross-domain dependency analysis, with sufficient technology understanding to collaborate credibly with technical architecture and delivery organizations.
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Strongly preferred: Hands-on SAP LeanIX experience. Practical knowledge of TOGAF, BIZBOK, ArchiMate, BPMN, and related architecture methods is beneficial. Relevant automotive, commercial vehicle, manufacturing, aftermarket, dealer, customer, data, or digital-product experience is also beneficial.
At the Volvo Group, we strive for a clear, transparent, and straightforward compensation approach, motivating you to contribute to the company’s growth. For this position, the base pay is set at $128,300.00 - $158,400.00 annually, and where applicable, bonus eligible. The range for this role, as well as final salary offered, is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, work-related knowledge, certifications, skills, education, and experience. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
In addition to a solid package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off.
- Competitive matching retirement savings plans.
- Working environment where your safety, health and wellbeing come first.
- Focus on professional and personal development through Volvo Group University.
- Programs that make today’s challenging reality of combining work and personal life easier.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Founded in 1900, Mack Trucks is an iconic brand that embodies the American spirit: pioneering, hard-working, authentic and ambitious. Mack trucks are recognized around the world as “The American Truck You Can Count On,” thanks to our durable, reliable and application-driven vehicles that get the job done.
Volvo Trucks, founded in Sweden in the late 1920s, is a brand centered around innovating for people – to make life easier, better, and safer. We are determined to lead the way towards a sustainable transport industry, in which we are equally determined for our customers to be successful and stay in the forefront.
By joining our North American Group Truck brands (Volvo & Mack), you will be part of a global and diverse team, where we work with passion, we trust each other, and we embrace change to stay ahead. By working together, we can provide innovative solutions that add value over time and help us create the world we want to live in.
