Director Digital Operations India

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. 

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Who we are and what we believe in 
Our focus on Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity allows each of us the opportunity to bring our full authentic self to work and thrive by providing a safe and supportive environment, free of harassment and discrimination. We are committed to removing the barriers to entry, which is why we ask that even if you feel you may not meet every qualification on the job description, please apply and let us decide.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, across the globe, our trucks, buses, engines, construction equipment, financial services, and solutions make modern life possible. We are almost 100,000 people empowered to shape the future landscape of efficient, safe and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents with sharp minds and passion across the group’s leading brands and entities. 

Group Trucks Technology are seeking talents to help design sustainable transportation solutions for the future. As part of our team, you’ll help us by engineering exciting next-gen technologies and contribute to projects that determine new, sustainable solutions. Bring your love of developing systems, working collaboratively, and your advanced skills to a place where you can make an impact. Join our design shift that leaves society in good shape for the next generation.

The organization has the following responsibilities:

• Leading GTT Digital Operations: Overseeing the integration of the Digital Operations, CDO office, Data & Simulations Platforms, and Data Governance & Data Compliance into Complete Vehicle.
  We drive the digital portfolio, the development of tools and methods to support and improve overall R&D efficiency and digitalization.  We also deliver unique R&D IT solutions and infrastructure to support our product development teams.
• Driving Digital Transformation: Ensuring collaboration, synergies, and effective deliveries across GTT, and the Volvo Group.
• Managing IT strategy and budget: Leading the alignment of strategy work including AI, data and simulation. Leading consequently the GTT IT budget and prioritizing various GTT IT initiatives.
• Fostering innovation and performance: Promoting an innovative culture while balancing technical, operational, and relational aspects of the business.

Through our CDO Office function we are managing and coordinating the full scope of IT Solutions and Infrastructure within the product development teams in the following areas:  

• Vehicle HW Development Toolchains  

• Vehicle SW Development Toolchains   

• Data management & Data Analytics, AI/ML as well as product & Data Compliance 

• Engineering Infrastructure and High-end Data & Simulation Platforms  

What will you do?

The Director Digital Operations Bangalore supports the implementation of IT Solutions locally and globally. You work closely with our global functional leaders to secure a full alignment with global roadmaps and to develop the needed capabilities on site. You manage the collaboration with local and global stakeholders in GTT and Group Digital & IT.

You manage and develop a team based in Bangalore with a deep expertise in

• Data Solution management
• Infrastructure and application support for High Power Computing and CAE
• Infrastructure support for engineering solutions
• Configuration management

You create a positive work environment based on meaningful work, diversity, supportive colleagues and management, and growth mindset.

You create a team that thrives in a global environment.

Who are you?

You love to lead people and technology. You work with simplicity, empowerment, and accountability. Growing competences, knowledge and professionalism is close to your heart, and you have the drive to continuously develop the organization as well as your personal abilities and behaviors.

You are a catalytic manager, an intrapreneur, seizing new opportunities, unleashing the potential of the team to find solutions and drive the transformation of the digital landscape for GTT and Volvo Group.
You create a strong cross-functional collaboration across Group Trucks Technology and Volvo Group Digital & IT. You break the silos and bring together all required competences, whichever the organization they belong to, to innovate and break new grounds in the digital domain.

You hold high standards of performance and develop the teams’ efficiency and effectiveness to deliver on quality and time. You foster a growth mindset and an innovative culture where we attract and retain talents to develop future digital technologies. You develop the competence and the ways of working to increase the speed of development of connected solutions, data-driven services, and predictive care for our customers.

As a member of the Digital Operations global Leadership Team, you also have responsibilities to develop the global organization towards set objectives.

You live the Volvo Group Values with high integrity and trust.

We also want you to have:

• Master’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
• 15 to 20 years of experience in leading people within IT-development, digital operations or software development.
• Experience of leading the governance of an extensive investment portfolio : decision process, budget, roadmaps.
• Experience in the management of IT-technologies : architecture, requirements, cybersecurity.
• Experience in the management of external collaboration