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Shaping tomorrow’s technology
At Vehicle Technology, we are passionate about shaping tomorrow’s technology to create excellent sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions to make the world a better place for future generations. We provide innovative, safe and driver friendly solutions, we develop top quality services and we make our customer operations more efficient by using excellent data insights. We support the Volvo Group engineering community with cutting edge tools and methods
Roles and Responsibilities
As the Global Technology Manager (GTM) of Data Governance and Analytics, you will secure foundations for “data driven product development” within GTT organization. We're looking for a leader to manage our team of experts who will work in close contact with Product Owners to support service and product development.
One of the most important tasks is to develop a high performing department and secure best available competences in the area on short as well as long term. A key delivery will be to build and maintain roadmaps on data architecture and associated capabilities that informs and drives insight. Your key responsibilities will be:
- Defining and implementing department structure, objectives, and operations
- Secure Data Management/Data Governance GTT implementation
- Define and manage proper governance structure incl. Information owners etc. in the line functions
- Securing implementation and alignment to the Group Data Governance/Data Management framework and Enterprise Architecture principals
- Collaborate with the Data Platforms team in securing the creation and maintenance of the efficient Data Solutions and Data Platforms.
- Managing the inter-team operational aspects on a formal and ad-hoc basis, be available for clarification, quick decision making, escalations or reprioritization if needed.
- Empower the team to come up with ideas for backlog and product roadmap.
- Build and develop the team's health, happiness, motivation, and growth.
- Manage portfolio governance structure to ensure successful portfolio execution, including preparation for and facilitation of regularly progress reviews and decisions meetings.
You will report to the Vice President Data & Simulation in Volvo Group Trucks Technology (GTT) and be a member of the Data & Simulation management team.
How to succeed
In our team, we see each other as team-players with integrity and high level of accountability. We believe it is important that you share this mindset with us to enjoy this position. As you will work cross-functionally with many interactions both within and outside of Volvo Group, you should be capable of building good relations with your stakeholders. Therefore, excellent presentation and communication skills are needed as well as problem solving capability. As a manager, you have an ability to inspire and engage people toward a vision and boost engagement, inclusion and motivation when working with others. Your qualifications should be:
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer science, Computer Engineering, Information systems and/or R&D related IT
- Extensive IT or Product Development experience
- Experience from R&D work, primarily in Data/Information Management development
- Experience from driving change management in conjunction with implementation of new way of working supporting data driven development
- Experience from data privacy and risk management
- Minimum 3 years of experience from Line Management– leading leaders and global teams
Are you ready to join our growing department and develop together with us? Please send your application as soon as possible, we can’t wait to get to know you better.
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Contacts: Thomas Lezama, Vice President Data & Simulation, thomas.lezama@volvo.com.
Kindly note that due to GDPR, we will not accept applications via mail. Please use our career site.
About us
The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Countless career opportunities are offered across the group’s leading brands and entities that share a culture of Trust, Passion, High Performance, Change and Customer Success.
www.volvogroup.com/career.
Volvo Group Trucks Technology provides Volvo Group Trucks and Business Area's with state-of-the-art research, cutting-edge engineering, product planning and purchasing services, as well as aftermarket product support. With Volvo Group Trucks Technology you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.
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