Product Owner for Software Factory

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future. 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.

Not purely a car maker – also a software company.  
The future belongs to those who are empowered by a great idea and have the ability to carry it out. At Volvo Cars, we want to lead the change by becoming the fastest growing premium electric brand and the fastest transformer. We want to lead in safety, core computing, electrification, autonomous drive technology and direct customer relations. To make this happen, we need talented people onboard. People with passion, energy, business sense and the drive to innovate. People that want to create the next generation Volvo cars in a global, dynamic and respectful environment. We will support you to reach your full potential. Join us on this exciting journey into the future!  

Working with the future at our part of R&D  
At Complete Software & Electronics Integration (CSEi) we are integrating and testing the complete electrical system for new platforms and programs.  We work with test strategies, enable continuous integration, and operate the complete baseline. We are now expanding our test, integration and SW factory community and are looking for a creative and experienced Product Owner (PO) to lead our SW engineers who builds our continuous build and configuration flow. The team is responsible for development of continuous integration (CI) architecture & infrastructure, nursing of the complete SW build and CI flow, development of automation framework/test-hotel set up etc. 

What you’ll do 
As a PO you will maximize value-added work by owning and deciding upon priorities in the Team Backlog from a business perspective to streamline execution, while maintaining technical integrity of the features/stories for the team. You will participate as a member of the Product Management team, review, and contribute to the program-level vision, roadmap, and content presentations. You are the technical leader for the products and deliveries in your teams, and you drive the team vision and directions (both short and long-term) of the product together with the team and relevant stakeholders. 

Who you are
To manage such a challenge, we believe that you as a Product Owner have a passion for embedded software, DevOps and have experience from large-scale software development organizations. You have a solid background and a hands-on practice within one or more of the areas: - Software Configuration Management - Test-automation framework - Continuous integration. We believe that you are driven by making an impact on the product as well as the organization, you are brave and dare to challenge set-ways. You get inspired when you get the chance to lead in change and you have the ability to lead strong empowered teams with a high level of specialist competence.

As a Product Owner you are creative, communicative, analytical and curious and are driven by finding new ways. We believe that collaboration and networking come natural to you as well as the goal that our software- and electronics- architecture and processes should enable our business. You are communicative and can use suitable value argumentation in dialogue with both product managers, stakeholders and when empowering the developers. You can make sense of complex high quantity, and sometimes contradictory, information to effectively solve problems. You actively seek ways to grow using both formal and informal development channels. 

Required qualifications / skills:
•    M.Sc in Electrical and/or Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar relevant experience. Extensive experience from working in the field of software development. Hands-on DevOps experience, working with automation, infrastructure, tooling and developer workflows. Experience in implementation of CI pipelines for SW development  
•    Senior management experience from leading change, complex tasks and leading agile teams. Senior leadership experience from working on SW and architecture/strategies in large-scaled software developing organization  
•    Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in text. Fluent in English language. Self motivated with strong problem solving skills.

Meritorious, but not mandatory
- Experience from Configuration Management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Automotive and from working in an international environment, all phases in the system development life-cycle, ASPICE, ISO26262, Cybersecurity standards and UNECE WP.29 SUMS, Software Factory concept, database development, SAFe, Docker, open source, and tools evaluation work.

Interest and application
We are curious what you think about the future. If you have any questions, please contact the recruiting manager at roger.pettersson.2@volvocars.com. Applications via email will not be accepted, kindly apply via the link.