Tech Lead for Ventures and New Business

About us 

Everyone working at Scania is united by a common purpose: Driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. We know that the transport industry must change, and it’s a change we want to lead. Scania’s continuous transformative work within circularity, electrification and autonomy shows commercial ideas, powerful insights and competencies that make real change happen. 

Ventures and New Business at Scania have a key role in driving the shift and contributing to this vision. We develop and deliver new businesses, supporting Scania’s long-term growth and profitability ambitions. At Ventures and New Business, we develop complementing solutions to our core and build new growth through ventures and investments that strengthen and support our acceleration, driving the shift. We want to engage and inspire our entire organisation to create results together with us, and collaboration and entrepreneurial spirit are part of our culture and what makes us successful. 

We are today a team of approximate 45+ people and have five ventures. Our office space is very central at Drottninggatan in Stockholm.  

About Elain

Established within Scania’s Ventures & New Business Portfolio, Elain provides a novel digital service that delivers actionable insights and visualsation of fuels and emissions for logistics. With a platform that automates CO2 tracking and provides detailed emission data per order, recipient, and carrier it empowers informed decisions for effective decarbonisation across the entire transport supply chain.

Job description 

As Tech Lead for Elain, you will define and lead the technology roadmap while ensuring ttimely product and project delivery. You will play a key role in scaling the venture as we grow, overseeing both the technical team and engaging with senior management and the board.

This role requires a mix of leadership and hands-on technical expertise. You’ll not only guide the team in strategic decision-making but also stay involved in day-to-day technical work, ensuring your coding and development skills are put to use from time to time. If you're excited about shaping the future of our technology and enjoy getting into the technical details alongside your team, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities 

In the role of Tech Lead for a venture your main key task will be:  

• Technical Leadership and product strategy: Provide strategic oversight and direction for our technology roadmap, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with Elain's business objectives, as we scale.  

• Project and Product Delivery: Oversee product delivery and customer project implementation, emphasizing quality and timeliness.   

• Operational Excellence: Ensure robust, scalable, and secure systems and architecture, with comprehensive contingency planning and data protection measures.  

• Team Leadership: Lead, structure, and mentor the technology team, including full-stack developers and customer integration leads, ensuring effective recruitment and team development.  

• Ways of Working: Establish and maintain an efficient, transparent, and agile framework for the technology team. Implement clear performance KPIs and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.  

• Coding and Technical Involvement: Actively contribute to the development of technical solutions when required, while setting the direction for the team.

About you 

We seek someone with strong experience within UX who can work with the full process within user experience. It is crucial that you are a positive influence and a good collaborator as you will interact with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders. Good communication skills are key since you will be interacting closely with business executives both across the company and externally. You are a goal-oriented doer and a team player that loves to see how our business is growing. 

We also believe that you (requirements): 

• Have 7+ years of experience in Engineering Management roles, with a documented history of transforming and scaling solutions and teams.  

• Posses strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills, plus a demonstrated ability of translating business objectives into technology strategies and execution plans.  

• Have proven experience in scaling software development projects, SaaS platforms, and organisations/teams, as well as developing data and analytics platforms, and implementing real-time data processing systems. Familiarity with machine learning and AI frameworks is desirable.  

• Can communicate complex technical concepts effectively across all levels of the organisation.  

• Demonstrate capacity to lead organisations and projects from concept to implementation, with a proactive and results-oriented approach.  

• Hold relevant educational qualifications. 

What we offer: 

We offer you the chance to be part of an organisation that is focused on reaching Scania’s targets and truly driving the shift to a sustainable transport system. Joining our team you will get to enjoy the flexibility and agility of a startup environment while benefiting from the stability and security of being employed by one of Sweden's largest companies. With the opportunities of the current transformative changes within the transport industry, we are on a very exciting journey. This is the right time to join us! 

Information and application 

Questions about the role? Contact linda.rosenqvist@scania.com

We are working with an ongoing selection; please apply as soon as possible if you are interested, but no later than 2024-10-31. 

Kindly note that a background check might be conducted for this position. 

Scania is one of Sweden's largest companies and offers trucks and buses for heavy transport in combination with a wide range of product-related services. Our mission is to drive the transition to a sustainable transport system by developing safe, smart and energy-efficient transport solutions that are better for both people and our planet. Today, Scania have around 50,000 employees in around 100 countries. For more information visit Scania.com