Senior Engineering Manager - Data & Analytics Platforms

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.

Data & Analytics Core - let’s introduce ourselves
The mission for D&A Core is to Transform the data ecosystem to empower our colleagues with trusted data, which supports the Volvo Data Vision of Powering innovation and every decision with trusted data. 

As a Senior Engineering manager in D&A Platforms you will lead teams in their work to design, develop, and maintain robust end-to-end platform capabilities that enable data and analytics teams across the organisation to deliver value from data, whilst building a culture of collaboration and data excellence.
What you’ll do
As a Senior Engineering Manager you provide senior technical leadership in designing, building and maintaining the central Volvo Cars Data & Analytics platform including infrastructure, tools and frameworks that support a decentralized, scalable and governed data ecosystem. 
You will be responsible for leading multiple teams within a product area in Data & Analytics Platforms. By managing people, technology, delivery and business impact you will be instrumental on our mission to transform the data ecosystem to empower our colleagues with trusted data.
We are in an early phase of our transformation journey so key priorities for this role are to build your dream teams through hiring and taking a leading role in setting our technical direction. 

We are currently looking for two Senior Engineering Managers, In both roles, you will:
•    Lead and grow a team of hardworking Engineering Managers and engineers through hiring, mentoring, inspiring and feedback. You will have Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers as your direct reports.
•    Ensure through user feedback and a tight collaboration with our Product Manager team that our platform capabilities are prioritized, designed and built to solve our user’s problems
•    Advocate and advance modern, agile platform engineering practices 
•    Help ensure the solutions are scalable, sustainable, architecturally sound, and technical debt is both incurred consciously and repaid in a reasonable time 
•    Be an active member of the D&A Platforms leadership team and collaborate with other leaders across the organization

What you’ll bring

We are looking for you who has a genuine interest in people, data and tech. You are comfortable in leading through ambiguity and are empowering your team to act and learn in uncertain and complex environments. You also have experience of building diverse and motivated teams. 

Furthermore, you are making sure the mission, strategy and goals are clear and are delegating authority and responsibility to your team members, giving them the autonomy and flexibility to make decisions and take actions.

We believe this is the role for you with several years of experience in the data engineering space, both as an individual contributor and as a manager. You have experience of large scale transformation initiatives and knows what a modern data tech stack looks like but also what it takes to harmonise a complex and heterogeneous data tech landscape in an iterative way.

You also have

•    Experience from leading leaders
•    Advanced English communication skills
•    Experience working with highly visible projects in an international environment
•    Knowledge of or experience with Data Mesh and data product concepts

Want to know more?

We’d love to receive and review your application. We welcome you to apply in English as soon as possible, we will go through applications on a regular basis.  Please apply through the provided link. Applications submitted via email will not be retained or taken into consideration. Once you receive a confirmation email from the system, your application will be acknowledged.

If you want more information about the role and its responsibilities or simply learn a bit more about the team, please reach out to the hiring manager at andreas.ragnarsson@volvocars.com or the recruiter at lovisa.ermell@volvocars.com. 

Location for this position can be in either Gothenburg or Stockholm.