Head of Software Engineering Practice & Collaboration excellence in Digital Foundations

Göteborg, SE, 417 55

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.

Digital Foundations are obsessed with software excellence to drive platforms and products performance. The guardrails from enterprise architecture, IT Operations and Quality and Enterprise Cybersecurity are turned into code by Digital Foundations, consumed through toolchains by platforms, and products that are built on platforms.

By empowering platforms and product teams with strong foundations, we enable faster, safer, and higher quality software delivery in digital and embedded software. Our focus is on enhancing the software experience through intuitive tools, streamlined workflows, and intelligent automation. This is how you’ll make an impact

The Head of Software Engineering Practice and Collaboration Excellence is a people leader role, reporting to SVP Digital Foundations, responsible for defining, promoting, and driving adoption of modern software development best practices across the organization. The role acts as a catalyst for professionalizing software development by establishing standards, enabling teams, and ensuring consistent, high-quality execution aligned with business goals. Key responsibilities will include: • Establish and continuously improve software development standards, principles, and ways of working (e.g., DevOps, CI/CD, cloud-native development, security-by-design, test automation), translating strategic objectives into practical development practices and guidelines. • Actively support product and development teams in adopting new tools, practices, and methodologies by identifying adoption barriers, working hands-on with teams to remove them, and providing coaching and guidance to developers, tech leads, and engineering managers. • Develop enablement of materials such as playbooks, reference architectures, and learning paths, while partnering with leadership to ensure alignment between organizational goals and engineering practices. • Build and nurture communities of practice across software development disciplines, facilitating knowledge sharing, internal forums, and best-practice exchanges, and championing a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and engineering excellence. • Act as a bridge between strategy, architecture, security, and delivery teams, defining metrics to track adoption, maturity, and impact of software development practices through Dashboard, and using data and feedback to continuously refine practices and improve outcomes.

As a leader, you drive change and introduce new ways of working in close collaboration with others. Strategy is translated into a meaningful direction for the team, and trust is built through transparent conversations. You develop and empower others by motivating and encouraging them to be daring. Ownership is taken, and real impact is driven through strong business and customer insights.

We believe you bring: • A university degree or equivalent, with several years of experience leading people or leaders, preferably in software development; supported by a strong background in modern software development and engineering practices and acting as a role model for those practices. • Hands-on technical credibility with strong communication skills, able to influence without direct authority and communicate clearly at both technical and executive levels. • Proven experience driving change and adoption across multiple teams, with a passion for continuous improvement, developer experience, and proactively identifying improvement opportunities and driving them to execution. • Experience with engineering/productivity metrics. • Experience establishing and nurturing communities of practice to foster knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning.

We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group . Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. ​We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. ​We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.

Volvo Group Digital Technology & Operations (DTO) is a new division established to integrate the capabilities of VG Digital & IT and VG Connected Solutions to accelerate the digital transformation in Volvo Group. The organizational set up is structured around domains, digital products with functions for digital excellence to deliver outstanding customer experience.

Joining the new DTO division means being part of a fast-moving digital product-oriented organization where teams truly own what they build from idea to delivery. In DTO, we work in agile, cross-functional teams, mastering the latest technology, and creating outstanding digital experiences that make a real difference for our colleagues and Volvo Group customers around the world. We put people first and build our culture on trust, passion, customer success, change, and performance. If you want to grow, collaborate across functions and entities, and help shape the future of digital products within Volvo Group, DTO is a great place to be.

Every day, Volvo Group products and services ensure that people have food on the table, children arrive safely at school and roads and buildings can be constructed. Looking ahead, we are committed to driving the transition to sustainable and safe transport, mobility and infrastructure solutions toward a net-zero society.

Joining Volvo Group, you will work with some of the world’s most iconic brands and be part of a global and leading industrial company that is harnessing automated driving, electromobility and connectivity.

Our people are passionate about what they do, they aim for high performance and thrive on teamwork and learning. Everyday life at Volvo is defined by a climate of support, care and mutual respect.

If you aspire to grow and make an impact, join us on our journey to create a better and more resilient society for the coming generations.