Configuration Manager

The Context


The heart of any large industrial company is traditionally said to lie in the manufacturing and a company’s success lies in how well and efficiently high-quality products can be produced to the market. The brain behind success is normally found in the innovation and product development capabilities that the organization master. Today’s trends are pointing traditional industries to shift focus towards services, expanding the value proposition as far as providing holistic eco-systems for the society. We at Digital & IT community within the Volvo Construction Equipment are no exception. We provide a complete eco-system of IT Services & Solutions for the Volvo CE Product Development, Manufacturing, Sales and what not, so that Volvo CE can be in the forefront of this transition journey.


We at Digital & IT are in a transition journey as well. Implementing new ways of working to improve our efficiency and precision to provide the IT services & solutions that bring the most value for Volvo CE business capabilities. To enable the transition in our teams, we have some key positions we plan to establish to secure our success.


The problem statement


So what we are looking for is, let’s call it a Configuration Manager, even if it could as well be a Release Train Engineer, a SW Build & Release Engineer or even a SW Asset & Configuration Manager. Regardless of what title pops up in the search result, here is a bit about where we need your support.


We have established some agile teams to develop, maintain & operate some of our IT services & solutions and some more teams are just about to be formed. To be a bit more precise, your scope, together with us is the End to End Product Life Cycle Management IT Services & Solutions. In other words, the full spectra.
Currently, we are in a situation where we need to improve the management of dependencies, deliveries and deployments between the teams, to secure our E2E solution is consistent and stable. Sometimes we even have challenges within the teams.


We also see that even if agility means usually speed, sometimes we tend to increase speed too much and thereby forget to perform proper impact analysis or update critical information of the Configuration Items.
We master plenty of legacy methods like Continuous Integration & Delivery etc. but we do not always seem to remember to think about ourselves, we rather put our efforts on the Customer. So we would need your help here as well.


We work in truly global teams. We have team members all around the globe from Asia through Europe to the US. So it is important you appreciate occasional weird meeting times and the fact that we spend more time online than face-to-face, even after the Pandemic.


One additional factor, we have a nice mix of SW as a Service, Commercial of the Shelf and proprietary solutions. This means diversity in all dimensions when it comes to our team members, partners and stakeholders.
Oh, one more thing. We are accountable for the entire IT Services, from Infrastructure components to Applications, from Strategy through design to transition and operations. All of it.


As you see, there is no list of expected skills in this posting. Rather a set of strategic and tactical problems, which we want to solve together with you.


If you are up to the challenge and want to grow together with us in the Volvo CE family, please apply and find out more.