Senior Delivery Leader

Delivery Leader/ Scrum Master Analytics & BI
Position Description
Join us on our transformation journey to the digital future
At Digital & IT, we have a clear ambition to enable value creation at scale for the Volvo Group. With a new product centric operating model and digital technologies, we will produce digital offerings that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. With Digital & IT, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals, who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead. We have a very important role to play in reaching the Volvo Group ambitions for 2030. Do you want to be part of our transformation journey towards becoming the digital capability of the Group? The time is now!

This will be us - your new colleagues within Data Analytics & BI Deliveries
Data is a new function within Digital & IT with the goal to unlock the power of data for the full Volvo Group to become a fully data-driven company! With data, the core component of our transformation journey, we will, together with our data talents, make the Volvo Group 2030 vision happen. We will take care of all the aspects of Data, how it is quality assured, documented, made available, prepared, and consumed through BI, Analytics and Machine Learning. We have an ambitious transformation in front of us, with an implementation of the Data Layer in Azure as well as the reinforcement of Data Governance and Data Management in the full Group.

We collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in Digital & IT, with TD/BAs and Group Functions. We foster an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we win together.

In our unit, Business areas Analytics and BI, we focusing on Analytics and Data domain deliveries for the Volvo Construction Equipment’s, Volvo Penta, Volvo Financial services, Volvo Energy, Volvo Autonomy and Volvo Buses. We aim for transforming into Agile and DevOps teams with a strong focus of value creation, we are in the beginning of this journey and are seeking you who like to be a driver for change and transformation, just like us.

This is how you could make an impact
As a Delivery Lead/Scrum Master you are a servant leader and coach for one or several of our to-be agile teams. You coach and lead implementation and practices of the agile framework chosen for the team. You foster a high performance culture within the team focusing on continuous improvement and continuous deliveries. We are on a strong transformational journey and are seeking leaders with the ability to not only implement agile artifacts but do have the ability to grow self-supportive, self-managed and future proof teams and people.

These will be some of your responsibilities:

• Leading the implementation of Agile Safe framework or other selected frameworks
• Guide and adopt to preferred Methodology within Agile such as scrum or Kanban
• Be a strong advocate for Agile mindset and practices
• Support DevSecOps implementations where applicable
• Safe guard scope and priorities, meaning strong focus on stop starting, start finishing
• Jointly with the team own and drive upskilling initiatives and continuous learning in Agile, Analytics and Digital transformation supporting our continuous next.
• Onboard new members and identify missing knowledge or abilities to get to the next level of excellence of analytics practices and deliveries in the team

Who are you?
We do not know you yet, but some abilities to be successful in this role we are:

• a strong ownership mentality
• teams over individuals
• a can-do attitude
• Change agent

You probably have previous experience of implementing Agile and are strong practitioner of Agile. You are also well oriented in the Data and Analytics area. Most likely you have been a practitioner of creating solutions in any of the larger platforms and tools such as MS Azure, AWS, Google or likewise. In addition to that you are oriented in modern techniques to create efficiency through automation, RPA or other practices. Common tools for visualization or discovery such as PowerBI, Knime, Plotly or Qlick Sense is also your comfort zone. Knowing the benefits with scaled up data engineering tools such as Databricks is an important value as well.


Are we a good match?
In the Volvo Group, we have defined leadership as a set of observable behaviors that leaders exercise to achieve alignment towards our vision 2030, to better execute our strategy and for the Group to continuously renew itself in order to “Perform and Transform”. To reach our vision and deliver on our strong commitments, we need to pair “the will” with “the skill”. That is why our leadership principles are behavioral based. The principles Lead with Passion, Perform with Purpose and Transform with Vision are our values in action, and they will strengthen our culture.

In your role as Delivery Leader/Scrum Master, we expect you to develop your area of responsibility by having the ability to define the right priorities based on a customer centric mindset. We encourage the ability to drive business forward and act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value (financial, cultural, or social) for others. We create an environment where of continuously improvements and learning maximize the outcome of our work.

To achieve our goals, we collaborate within and across teams. We empower others to grow and create a sense of unity and trust by nurturing open dialogues and collective work. We build a work environment where diversity in expertise, opinion and culture is valued.

Contacts:
Tanja Schou, Head of Business Areas Analytics & BI tanja.schou@volvo.com