Engineering Manager to Data Foundation

Company Description


Are you a technically skilled leader who is passionate about people and wants to join us on our fantastic journey to make a difference? We are now looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join us in our Data Foundation product area within AI, Analytics and data domain. Check out this video to meet a few of our colleagues in Business Tech.
We are on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
The best ideas evolve when great minds with different perspectives get together. We’re all on the same team in a global environment and we learn from each other. There are endless opportunities to grow – your development is all up to you!
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users. H&M Group – Business Tech.


Job Description


H&M is rapidly heading towards the digital future and we need people with a natural proactive drive who wants to make a difference. We are on a journey to bring data to the forefront of innovation. Our vision is to lead the H&M Group to become the most insight-driven organization on Earth. We will do so by ensuring structured and qualitative data is available for all. This will be done with an agile mindset and methodology, as well as working closely with all our friends throughout H&M Group. We always keep the customer in focus and our goal is to improve their decisions every day.
What you’ll do 
As a driven leader, you will play a vital role for us in our mission to make H&M Group a truly data and insight driven company. You will be responsible for engineering teams working with development of master data within and outside SAP. The teams work in an agile and cross-functional setup. You need to be passionate about people in all aspects, from recruiting, developing, coaching, and shaping the team. You need to drive a cultural shift from being reactive and accepting requirements towards actively engaging in the team mission. You do this in close collaboration with the teams Product Owner and Scrum Master, and together you are the trio that supports the teams becoming self managing and high performing with people as the center of your joint mission.
You will ensure that we have the best people with the right knowledge at the right time, to build and operate state-of-the-art solution fused with engineering excellence.
Moreover, you’ll work closely with your teams to ensure our vendors are performing up to our expectations, resolving any impediments that hinder the development of your team’s products, as well as budget and personnel responsibility.
Who you are
You are smart, humble, and passionate in helping shape the agenda for our future data transformation journey. To succeed, we believe that you have previous experience in leading highly technical personnel in an agile software development environment and have previous experience and passion for DevOps mindset.
We believe you are a person that makes an impact, easily engages people, and believes in creating a learning organization. You are a strong leader and act as an ambassador for the organization in how to coach and develop the team members. You believe in the power of people and you feel accountability for creating a sound and innovative environment for the teams and team members and take pride in challenging/changing the status quo. You dare to speak up when necessary and seek input and feedback to improve further. We believe that you have great abilities in building a big network within the organization. We think that you;


Qualifications


Be an available and approachable manager for team members bv inspiring and coaching them 1-1 on their personal development journey in alignment with the needs of the team and H&M.
Empower the teams in becoming self managing
Energize people and teams by being a catalyst leader
Identify future competence gaps
Help implement sustainable best-practices, and the technical strategy that will guide the short- and long-term plans
Align with compliance teams to make sure that you collaboratively provide for the company’s short- and long-term goals



Additional Information


Do you think we are a match? We hope so!
Please apply with CV and cover letter the latest 13th of February 2022. Please highlight your leadership experience.
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm.
We are looking forward to your application!