About this role
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Your Role
Are you an experienced software development leader with a strong focus on alignment, continuous improvement, and team development? In this role, you will lead teams delivering high-quality software in a complex and regulated environment.
The Product Development Department is responsible for developing and delivering products for Air Traffic Management solutions. As Software Development Manager and a member of the Product Development leadership team, you will play a key role in ensuring that products meet customer expectations regarding quality, performance, and compliance, while enabling efficient product realisation.
Your key responsibilities include:
Leading, developing, and supporting software development teams
Driving innovation and continuous improvement in alignment with internal governance, processes, and standards
Ensuring compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements
Ensuring that documentation is prepared, maintained, and kept complete and accurate throughout design, development, and change
Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Contributing to a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning within your section and the wider leadership team
Your Profile
We are looking for an experienced leader with a solid background in software development, combining technical credibility with a genuine interest in team and people development. Structured and solution-oriented, you communicate clearly and confidently, creating a positive working climate that values trust and engagement.
We are looking for candidates with:
Solid leadership experience within software development
Proven experience in developing people and teams
Strong knowledge of software development methodologies and tools
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust across the organisation
Experience from the air traffic control domain is considered an advantage
Fluency in English, both written and spoken
You are inclusive and result-oriented, leading by example and motivated by creating the conditions for others to succeed. You understand the importance of contributing to the bigger picture and of building a performance-driven culture.
This position is based in Växjö. Close collaboration with our sites in Gothenburg and Apeldoorn (the Netherlands) is an essential part of the role, and limited business travel is expected.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
What You Will Be Part Of
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
Other facts
About Saab
For over 30 years our systems have operated in some of the most hostile environments on the planet and to depths of nearly two miles below the surface of the world’s oceans.
Our pioneering technology has revolutionised the underwater robotics industry.
In turbulent waters and pitch darkness, these remarkable vehicles can undertake missions that would be impossible by any other means. Tasks that range from gathering fragile Roman pottery, to recovering torpedoes; and from filming bioluminescent creatures, to creating detailed 3D scans of dam structures.
Rapid advances in miniaturisation and intelligent control architecture are creating ever smaller and smarter robotic systems that are more agile and more powerful, and bring advanced technology to ever more complex tasks.
Winning a worldwide reputation for creating highly sophisticated technology that is trusted to work at a diverse range of tasks in the most hazardous conditions is our proudest achievement.
Over 80 percent of our systems are exported across the globe and used in diverse sectors that include oil and gas, renewables, marine science, aquaculture, hydro engineering, undersea mining, salvage, telecoms, nuclear, leisure, emergency and defence.
Our parent company SAAB AB employs 14,000 people in over 30 countries.
What you'll do
- The role involves leading, developing, and supporting software development teams responsible for delivering high-quality software for Air Traffic Management solutions. Key duties include driving innovation, ensuring compliance with regulations, maintaining accurate documentation, and building strong stakeholder relationships.
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