Team Managers for Complete Software Electronics Test and Integration

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.

About our R&D – Complete SW & Electronics Test and Integration
Volvo Cars is taking a bold lead with electrification in the auto industry. Our department was established to take lead in the coming challenges with electronics test and integration on a complete level. The department is highly prioritized, and we are facing a new exciting stage.

We are now expanding our test, integration and SW factory community and are looking for two team managers to help us recruit and develop our teams.

The mission in our teams is to:
* bring integration driven development and test into product creation to continuously demonstrate that we deliver the best electrical system in the automotive world
secure a stable and robust electrical system for Volvo Car’s new SW and electronics platforms

To succeed in our mission, we need a solid Team Manager with a passion for coaching teams and people within embedded software systems in large-scale software development organizations or within software and electronics test and integration.

What you’ll do
You will be responsible for a team of 20-30 dedicated members. In your role as a manager of these, you’ll be responsible of recruiting for future key competences, creating development opportunities as well as establish a long-term competence development. You’ll support the group in their day-to-day work, secure software integration, test-strategy development and fault- and actively participate in the department’s management group.

The group will consist of teams working across R&D with one or more of the following areas:
* Software factory development including configuration management and tool-set development
* Test development on complete node or complete electrical system level
* Rig development on complete node or complete electrical system level
Strategies related to test, continuous integration and configuration management

As a Team manager you have a solid background and a hands-on practice within one or more of those areas. You have a strong people-centric view and have the ability to build and support strong empowered teams with a high level of specialist competence. You are a supportive and have the ability to lead through people, listen and coach and are motivated by creating new solutions together with cross-functional teams. Also, we believe that you are creative, communicative, analytical and curious and are driven by finding new ways forward by supporting your teams in delivering to the best of their ability.

Qualifications/skills:
* Senior leadership experience from working on SW or test and integration in large scaled software developing organization
* Senior management experience from leading organizations with complex tasks and coaching empowered agile teams
* At least 8 years of experience from working with embedded software systems and software test and integration
* M.Sc in Electrical and Software Engineering or similar relevant experience
Fluent in speaking and writing Swedish and/or English

Meritorious:
* Experience of implementation of CI pipelines for SW development
* Experience of implementation of CM for SW development
* Software coding experience
* Testing experience
* Agile frameworks and development such as SAFe
Driver’s license (B-level)

Personal qualities:
* Leadership profile with the ability to motivate and delegate
* Interest in leading and developing co-workers & empowered teams
* Strong communication and interaction skills 
* Value driven
* Driven and self-motivated with an interest to create a creative work environment 
* Good analytical skills with a focus on the bigger picture 
* Interest in developing methods and processes
* Open and positive personality
* Result oriented with a interest for handling complexity