Vice President of Software Engineering Practice & Collaboration excellence in Digital Foundations

Lead the way in Digital Foundations

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.

Who are you?

Who are you?

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.

Why join us?
 
•    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.
 
Don’t wait — apply today! We’re reviewing applications continuously and starting interviews right
away. The final date to apply is Sunday 20th September.
 
 
Location 
Position located in: Sweden, Poland, India or France
 
 
At Volvo Group, we believe in the value of in-person collaboration and connection. Our general principle is that employees work from the office. The specific setup for your role will depend on the location in which you are hired. Further details will be shared during the recruitment process.
 
 
Union representatives for Swedish applicants: 
Akademikerna – Mikael Johansson, +46 73 9023430
Unionen – Lajla Dahlsjö, +46 31 3224575
Ledarna – Carina Sachade, +46 73 9024083
 
 
We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail.
 
 
“In some countries and for specific positions within Volvo Group Digital & IT, background checks may be required, in accordance with local laws & regulations. If this is applicable to the role you have applied for, you will be informed.”