Engineering Manager - Workplace & Smart buildings

We are people who want to make a difference.

Everything we do starts with people. It’s what makes us different from all other car companies. If you share our belief in the power of people and our passion for human-centric innovation, you will thrive together with brilliant, like-minded colleagues who are committed to making a true difference?

At Volvo Cars we have a high ambition, we strive to lead the automotive industry by creating products that allows our customers freedom to move in a personal and sustainable way. This is an ambition that also translates in an ambition for our very own people and workplace. We strive to invest in our people and their workplace to help them stay and grow with the company. Now we are looking for curious, creative people that want to join in on that journey, driving change through innovative thinking.
 
What’s in it for you?
Would you like to be a leader in an organization driving the area that enables Volvo Cars workplace to be smart, sustainable and offer a modern and innovative work environment? Do you want to help us achieve an excellent workplace with minimal environmental footprint for our people?  
Workplace focus its solutions around smart sustainable buildings. It is about optimizing efficiency, reducing operational cost and energy consumption as well as improving the workplace experience for our people.
This is an exciting digital transformation journey where the Engineering Manager will play a key role for setting and implementing our future workplace digital landscape for Volvo Cars. 

You are preferably based in our offices in Gothenburg.

What you’ll do 

• You will lead and grow a team of hardworking engineers through an inclusive leadership, strong performance focus with people development at the core.
• You will ensure, delivery through agile methods, continuous growth and strong ownership. 
• You will ensure the solutions are scalable, sustainable, architecturally sound.
• Lastly, you will be an active member of the cluster engineering leadership team, collaborate with other leaders across the organization and have a team spirit mindset.

Do you fit the profile?
We believe that you have experience of working with workplace digital landscapes, and it is meritorious if you have worked with designing highly available, scalable, secure, cloud native, globally distributed applications. 

In addition:

• You love to lead, develop, inspire and grow an engineering team, and have previous experience doing so; you are probably a technical manager today and you know what it takes to build a phenomenal team. 
• You are very knowledgeable and passionate about modern software development that builds products our customers love. 
• You are passionate about digital technologies and willing to work hands-on to try new technologies. 
• Preferably you have proven expertise in developing integrations using established Enterprise Application Integration patterns and tools. 
• Experience from big data and data lakes is very relevant in the Smart Building domain.

Finally, you are someone that fully embraces a growth mindset, and you have the ability to encourage others to do the same. You are someone who likes to have fun at work and makes sure everyone always feels welcome and included!
 

Who are we?

Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them. 

Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.