Software Delivery Pipeline Chief Architect

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.

Our Exciting Opportunity!
As Chief Architect (CA) of the Software Delivery Pipeline (SWDP) in PDU BSS, you will be a member of the PDG Platform Leadership Team.
As a senior technical leader, the successful candidate will need to demonstrate a strong ability to innovate, collaborate, communicate and be problem solver in a highly fast-paced global organization.
The Chief Architect should maintain an Implementation Architecture describing the as-is architecture and based on the direction architecture, create and maintain the corresponding SWDP decided architecture.

Based on the SWDP decided architecture, the chief architects should support each product in the BSS portfolio how, or to what level, to reach the decided architecture.
The CA is the owners of the SWDP Technical Governance, cross the BSS portfolio. This includes a close cooperation with all the e2e stakeholders, especially Service delivery, to ensure we establish a pipeline all the way to the customer.

To be successful in the role:
You are driven by passion and seeks high personal development; willing to groom into this role.
You have a Master or Bachelor’s degree related to Software Engineering or similar experience.
Proven ability to drive team engagements and act in a time sensitive environment.
Strong skills in verbal and written communication (English) and making people work together cross products and teams, as well as strong change management capabilities and experiences.
Great abilities to present and adapt presentations to the intended audience, e.g. bridge and adapt technical insights from within the project to senior management.
Meriting also if you have experiences from multi-cultural and distributed development.


Qualifications:
You have knowledge and experience in software development using pipeline flows for build, package, deploy and test
You have knowledge about pipeline orchestration technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitLab, Ansible
You understand the main principles of containerization and cloud technology and their impact on development principles
You have knowledge in cloud and containerization techniques such as Docker, Kubernetes
It is meriting to have experience in software development environment and tools like Git, Gerrit, Artifactory, Maven, Sonar
It is a bonus to have knowledge in software programming languages or scripting, like Java and Python


Finally,
We really look forward meeting you and get inspired by your innovative ideas and challenged to perform even better. If you enjoy high speed, challenging tasks and great opportunities, you will for sure have fun with us!

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 Platform

Selection is ongoing please apply as soon as possible
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