Line Manager EDA Product Development Leader

Why is Ericsson a good place to work?


Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With over 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.


At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favourite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. More often than not, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.

As the tech firm that created the mobile world, and with more than 54,000 patents to our name, we’ve made it our business to make a mark. When joining our team at Ericsson you are empowered to learn, lead and perform at your best, shaping the future of technology. This is a place where you're welcomed as your own perfectly unique self, and celebrated for the skills, talent, and perspective you bring to the team.

Are you in?
Come, and be where it begins.

Our Exciting Opportunity
You will work in Karlskrona within the development organization for Operations Support Systems (OSS) within Business Unit Digital Services. Our responsibility in Karlskrona is the development of products within the Provisioning and Activation area, i.e. activation of Subscribers, Services and Resources. Currently, we have ~400 installations worldwide and our products serve over 2 billion users.
You will be at the forefront of Ericsson’s 5G core development enabled by a Cloud Native architecture. We use technologies like Java, Scala, AKKA, Cassandra, OpenStack, Docker and Kubernetes, and development is done according to Agile principles in multi-functional self-organized teams with typically 5-7 Developers. The cornerstones in our development include a very high level of test automation, continuous integration and daily deliveries in a DevOps approach.

Development Group Activation, based in Karlskrona and Shanghai, is responsible for the full E2E flow from requirements from the customer, through studies, development, verification and also support for Ericsson Dynamic Activation, EDA and as well parts of CCDM product, where we collaborate closely with UDM organization based in Madrid. EDA product is used in several solutions and context, 5GC, Private Networks, Ericsson Orchestrator, UDC, together with BSS etc, making our journey exiting!

The organization today has four units in Karlskrona, and three based in Shanghai, reporting to Head of Development Group based in Karlskrona. In addition to the line managers, the leadership team also includes the program roles and leaders for support flow. Now we are extending our organization with one more unit in Karlskrona, and are searching for a line manager to support the growth of our organization!

You will
Drive and foster technical leadership in the provisioning and activation domain
Drive change and optimize ways of working
Foster innovation
Report to Development Group for Activation/EDA and be part of the Activation leadership team
Coach agile teams
Drive quality mindset


To be successful in the role you must have
Genuine interest in development and support of products
Experience of leading roles and driving process change
BSc or MSc or similar in telco relevant areas
Strong business acumen
Working experience in the area > 5 years
Good collaboration skills as we want great teammates
Knowledge and experience in Agile work methods


What´s in it for you?
Here at Ericsson, our culture is built on over a century of courageous decisions. With us, you will no longer be dreaming of what the future holds – you will be redefining it. You won’t develop for the status quo, but will build what replaces it. Joining us is a way to move your career in any direction you want; with hundreds of career opportunities in locations all over the world, in a place where co-creation and collaboration are embedded into the walls. You will find yourself in a speak-up environment where empathy and humanness serve as cornerstones for how we work, and where work-life balance is a priority. Welcome to an inclusive, global company where your opportunity to make an impact is endless.

What happens once you apply?
To prepare yourself for next steps, please explore here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/careers/job-opportunities/hiring-process
Location for this role: Karlskrona, Sweden
Recruiter: Anna Magnusson (anna.magnusson@ericsson.com)
This position reports to: Head of PDG EDA

Selection is ongoing please apply as soon as possible
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Primary country and city: Sweden (SE) || || Karlskrona || [[mfield2]]
Req ID: 540864