Do you imagine a career that constant stretches your capabilities and offer you the opportunity to work with technologies of the future? We offer an exciting opportunity to join a global company with a mission to make the society safer.
We are looking for our next Head of Core Computer platforms that will push boundaries for what is technically possible. You will work closely with colleagues around the world who share our challenges – to make the world a safer place. Are you the one who manage to lead an inspire your team toward this goal?
Your role
You will be a crucial part of the Design organisation and its management team. You will report to Head of Design.
As Head of CCP System and Hardware you will be responsible for requirements, architecture, development and verification of scalable computing platforms. You will play a crucial part to reach new levels of profitability through short time to market, common development and common production across surveillance product portfolio.
The split between common building blocks for use across Surveillance product portfolio and customer specific configuration are both within the responsibility of Core Computer Platforms and includes all hardware, inhouse developed, contracted for development or sourced of the shelf. The responsibility also includes systems engineering of Surveillance Computer Platforms, including requirement management, development and verification for both hardware and software functions.
Responsibility for computer platform software lays within the neighboring department, Core Computer Platform Software.
You and your team will have an important role within this organisation, such as:
Take responsibility for system development of computer platforms, specifying both hardware and software functions and architecture
Take responsibility for hardware development of platform building blocks
Take responsibility for hardware development for customer specific needs and configurations within Surveillance customer contracts
Manage platform products according to tailorised IPC process, including compliance towards relevant standards
Develop processes and tools to continuously increase efficiency in the organisation
Work in close cooperation with sourcing organisation
Active participation in all work related to the Design Management Team
All with the main purpose to secure efficient and timely product development, quality and customer satisfaction.
Your profile
For this role, we are looking for someone who likes to develop and challenging themselves as well as our organisation and our products. To be successful in this position you need to have the ability to motivate and engage others but also be able to organise, prioritise and take decisions to improve performance and profitability.
We also like you to have:
Passion for innovation, both regarding technology and business models
Strong customer focus and product development experience
Ability to build cross functional relationships with mainly internal stakeholders
Appropriate professional or postgraduate qualification in a technical discipline
Proven ability and interest in leading, developing and challenging the organisation, management teams and employees
Strong drive, perseverance and ability to generate energy
The position requires excellent skills in communicating and the ability to interact with other organisations across sites. You communicates fluently in Swedish and English
Last but not least, you have the ability to support and boost a collaborative work environment with transparency, respect and trust.
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 a 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 25,500 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