Delivery Leader IT – Volvo Group Connected Solutions

Delivery Leader IT – Volvo Group Connected Solutions
Do you want to be part of a global organisation leading the development of the
Volvo Group’s connected services and solutions? For us “connected for efficiency, sustainability and safety” is much more than a tag-line. If this sounds interesting to you, keep on reading!

At Volvo Group Connected Solutions we work at the forefront of connectivity with data from over
1 000 000 Volvo Group customer assets. Together with customers, partners and the Volvo Group we create real value, not only for our customers but also for society at large.

This is us, your new colleagues

As you can imagine, keeping track of over 1 000 000 connected customer assets rolling around the world is indeed a challenge. Now ponder, that vehicles in a few years will be autonomous – and you’ve got the challenge of your life. Our Technology team manages the development and maintenance of our global connectivity platform – and your experience is needed.

We are now looking for a Delivery Leader IT within Foundation Services VGCS, Bangalore. In this position you will be working with a group of talented Operations and Cloud Engineers supporting the Telematics platform deliveries hosted in Cloud environment for both Runtime and One-time deliveries.

The role

• Cooperate with IT stakeholders to secure efficient run-time for assigned local or regional solutions/services
• Guide team members and plan, steer critical change activities in both onetime and runtime support.
• Plan and execute daily functional tasks coordination with the team members.
• Responsible for sharing information and activities, which could impact IT deliveries or services, with relevant stakeholders
• Responsible for validation of production changes
• Cooperate with Group IT functions and partners to secure an efficient IT delivery
• Secure work prioritization and distribution within the team and coordinate team’s activities
• Responsible for securing IT delivery in line with decided directives and frameworks
• Report to the DM or Onsite Manager and provide information about results and deviations regarding activities and plans
• Report on agreed KPI’s
• Initiate, support, drive and implement continuous improvement activities
• Build open, honest and collaborative mindset within the team
• Responsible for legacy / preserving solutions / services
• Ensure communication / collection / sharing relevant information with stakeholders, team members, and partners in a systematic way

Your profile

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or Computer Science Engineering.
• Overall, 10 to 12 years of IT Industry experience.
• At least 2 to 3 years of team management as a team leader.
• Worked in a Global support and operations context.
• Experience in, Micro services architecture and DevOps methods.
• Hands-on Experience in Linux/Unix, and IT Services Operations management.
• Hands-on Experience in AWS (Cloud computing), Infrastructure management
• Hands-on Experience in scripting (Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl)
• Hands-on Experience in DevOps tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Dockers, GitHub etc)
• Experience in planning and guiding team members in Change, Maintenance and Projects activities.
• Working knowledge on tools such as SNOW and JIRA.
• On-call support experience.
• Basic database knowledge (Oracle, PostGres, Mongo DB)
• Basic knowledge in Network (Fire Wall, Load Balancers…)
• Knowledge in ITIL (Incident, Problem and Change management)
• Telecom experience is an advantage

What can we offer you?

You will be part of a team that creates great results through amazing people, strong relationships and a high performance culture. We are of course using the latest technologies delivering a very modern micro service based service platform hosted in the cloud. We use agile methods and as we are adopting the DevOps model your work will cover a broad spectrum, all the way from developing prototypes of future world class applications to managing the lifecycle of the existing ones.

Welcome to the heart of connectivity at Volvo Group Connected Solutions!

Want to know more? Contact us!

Please contact - Gururaj S, Delivery Manager or Vanitha Palani, HRBP