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Your Role
Are you ready to lead the digital future of one of Sweden’s most innovative companies? Saab’s Group IT organization is expanding, and we’re looking for an experienced leader to head up a brand-new service area within our Delivery Unit Digital Accelerator – Digital Solutions.
As Head of Digital Solutions, you will be at the forefront of our digital transformation journey. You’ll build and lead a new function that partners closely with our business units, delivering digital solutions on top of enabling platforms. These solutions may be delivered as assignments, as-a-Service offerings, or full team deliveries. Your goal? To provide predictable, secure, fast, and cost-effective digital capabilities that create real business value.
In this highly strategic and operational role, you will be responsible for:
Strategy & Portfolio Management: Define and develop the strategy and solution delivery portfolio for Digital Solutions, ensuring alignment with business roadmaps. You’ll work closely with Platform Service Owners and our Center of Excellence (COE) for Digital Enablement to build capability-driven roadmaps.
Establishing a Scalable Operating Model: Implement a solution portfolio management and agile delivery model that supports various delivery types – from team-based to Solution-as-a-Service. Ensure strong alignment with platform services and demand discovery within the COE.
Ways of Working: Create and promote streamlined, standardized processes from discovery to delivery to value realization. Foster a DevSecOps culture in close cooperation with Platform and COE teams.
Steering & Prioritization: Guide the initiative and epic funnel, manage priorities across run/change/innovation needs, and resolve cross-domain dependencies.
Value Realization & Solution Adoption: Ensure clear benefits tracking and business value realization, while driving adoption of digital solutions and managing the decommissioning or modernization of outdated solutions to minimize technical debt.
Talent & Culture: Develop a talent and sourcing strategy for your technical areas. Champion a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, and career development. Promote DevSecOps as a standard way of working.
Financials & Vendor Management: Own the budget and financial outcomes for Digital Solutions delivery, including both internal resources and external solution vendors. Shape the vendor and sourcing strategy together with our procurement team.
Compliance & Governance: Ensure all solutions meet Saab’s platform guardrails and security and compliance requirements.
Communication & Stakeholder Alignment: Keep stakeholders informed and engaged through clear communication of strategy and progress. Work in close alignment with business leaders, platform owners, the COE, and enterprise architects.
You will report to the Manager of the Delivery Unit Digital Accelerator and serve as line manager for the Head of Solution Management, multiple Heads of Tech Area, and selected individual contributors as needed. You’ll also carry overall line responsibility for the entire Digital Solutions organisation.
Your Profile
We are looking for a proactive and innovative leader willing to drive change. This role requires strong communication skills, the ability to ask the right questions, and a strong focus on results and business outcomes. Key qualities include delivery management, open collaboration, relationship-building skills and the capacity to motivate and engage others.
In addition, we value a candidate who is energetic, driven, and motivated by creating tangible value while maintaining a broad perspective. Business outcomes are key; candidates must be willing to embrace challenges and pave the way for new solutions in order to constantly secure progress. Furthermore, it is essential to see the bigger picture within a complex organisation while also understanding the necessary details when required.
For the role of Head of Digital Solutions, we believe that you have the following skills and experience:
5+ years of leadership within a delivery organization enabling digital transformation, preferably within several fields such as automation, data, analytics and AI.
Strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a track record of delivering results and collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders.
Extensive technical expertise in digital platforms and how these can be leveraged to enable business to realize digital transformation.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams that work in an agile manner to deliver continuous results.
Strong knowledge of relevant security, compliance, and architectural best practices.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or equivalent work experience.
Fluent in both Swedish and English.
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
Behind our innovations stand the people who make them possible. Brave pioneers and curious minds. Everyday heroes and inventive troubleshooters. Those who share deep knowledge and those who explore sky-high. And everyone in between.
Joining us means making an impact together, contributing in our own unique ways. From crafting complex code and building impressive defence and security solutions to simply sharing a coffee with a colleague, every action counts. We encourage you to take on challenges, to create smart inventions and grow in our friendly and tech-savvy workspace. We have a solid mission to keep people and society safe.
Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission – to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 23,000 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.
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.