Engineering Lead Digital Finance

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Nothing beats being part of positive change. We’re on a truly exciting journey, working together in a fast-paced global environment to break new ground in almost every aspect of our operations. Right now, we are looking for a purpose-driven lead engineer to the Digital Finance Product area encompassing the full end-to-end responsibility of the digital products used across Finance at Volvo Cars. You will lead the teams developing the current and future solutions and make sure that we make the right technical decisions. You will be taking on a crucial role, defining the technical roadmap ahead and being a sparring partner to engineering managers within Digital Finance.

Your mission:
You will be a part of the core leadership team driving the Digital Finance product area and engineering managers throughout the product area will be reporting to you. Being a servant leader, you will help them be great leaders, set technical direction, build talent and drive engineering solutions across the product area spanning from online payments, to performance steering and statutory financial reporting. Thinking ahead, investigating the future and innovating is key in this role.
You drive and set engineering principles and practice inside the product area and formulate the technical roadmap and technology solution design together with the engineering managers. Further, you ensure product area wide tech alignment as well as alignment with other product areas and their respective Engineering Leads in the broader tech community. Hence, you will play an important role in the group digital transformation.
You are responsible for ensuring and helping the product teams make sure the actual digital delivery takes place and as such, driving the engineering culture.
You will be building your internal network continuously and interact with other parts of the company. If you love pushing the boundaries and making people as passionate as you are, you’ll fit right in.

Who you are:
You have probably been an engineering lead for some time, managing larger teams, in the finance area for an online retain focused company, direct to customer business model, leasing companies or other subscription businesses. You have a deep technical/architectural understanding and have worked with ERP platforms including SAP S4/Hana, both from a delivery and strategy perspective. You understand what it takes to build great products and transform a digital landscape. You have experience of leading agile teams working across a variety of legacy and modern technologies.
We need you to be confident in delivering target digital blueprints of critical financial systems across e.g. pricing, transactions, accounting, reporting, tax and treasury.
You collaborate easily with colleagues across domains from product and development to business and finance. You are able to set high standards and have demonstrated the ability to build and lead a high-performance teams.
And above all, you are a good people manager. Attracting, empowering and growing incredibly talented engineers, and providing them with an environment in which they are set up for success.

Location
Stockholm, Gothenburg or Lund Sweden.

Contact & Application
Please apply via the link provided by the October 15th 2021. For questions regarding this role you are welcome to contact Senior Recruiter, Simon Almqvist at simon.almqvist@volvocars.com or the hiring manager, Emma Wallgren, at emma.wallgren@volvocars.com. Due to GDPR we will not handle any applications via email.