Company Description

Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 21 000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years.

Job Description

Vattenfall - one of the leading Energy companies in north eastern Europe – is in an exciting transition; the changing energy market and speed of technology development call for innovation, digitalization, and agility. Our vision is to become fossil free in one generation. You are passionate about innovation, modern tools and technologies and have an agile mindset and leadership style.

You will become part of Customer IT that develops and operates specialized IT solutions closely together with business colleagues to create value for our customers. We want to enable our customers to become fossil free within one generation. Our main internal business partner is Customer & Solutions, with whom we cooperate closely. Customer IT is setup locally, in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Poland. Customer IT Nordics is divided by five teams located in Sweden. We are looking for a new manager for this newly established unit to lead a group of highly skilled professionals dedicated to designing and implementing innovative smart analytics platform solutions.

We are looking for you, who is ready to lead a forward-thinking data and analytics team within a rapidly evolving technological landscape and to oversee our Azure-hosted Data Lake and drive innovation in our analytics solutions.

This pivotal role requires the ability to balance technical excellence with strong people management skills to deliver impactful results for our customers. You will play a critical role in integrating Machine Learning (ML) and AI technologies into our data platform, driving the next wave of innovation.

You will be a part of the Customer IT Nordics management team and shall be located in Stockholm. You will work closely with four other sister departments to complete an integrated service delivery.

Main challenges & Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery Focus: Lead the delivery of cutting-edge analytics solutions, including ML and AI initiatives, tailored to meet the needs of our customers. Ensure that these solutions drive efficiency, innovation, and tangible business outcomes across the organization.
• System Ownership: Take ownership of the Data Platform overseeing its technical health, monitoring operations, and setting standards and guidelines. Develop and maintain the platform's technical roadmap in close partnership with System Owner to ensure its long-term sustainability and alignment with organizational goals.
• Collaboration & Leadership: Work closely with your sister team, Customer Analytics business to maintain a cohesive approach to our delivery. Share responsibilities for cross-functional team delivery, competency building, and team engagement activities.
• Technical Expertise: Leverage your deep understanding of Microsoft Azure services, to guide the team in maintaining and enhancing the data platform. Ensure adherence to DevOps best practices, maintaining a high standard of operational excellence.
• Governance & Compliance: Establish and enforce platform guidelines and best practices, ensuring robust governance controls are in place. Monitor the platform’s operational health, addressing any issues proactively to minimize disruptions.
• Team Development: Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages growth and professional development. Facilitate knowledge sharing, plan team events, and implement rotational opportunities to build competencies and engagement across the team.

Qualifications

We are looking for a person who has a relevant University degree Computer Science, Information Management, Enterprise Automation or related field. In addition, the following qualifications are important for this position:

• Strategic thinker with a results-oriented mindset and a passion for driving innovation together with the business counter parts.
• Experience in dealing with strategic, highly complex issues, problems and challenges in changing context
• Holistic and visionary view to identify future trends and opportunities
• Experienced at working in international cross-functional teams and dealing with higher management
• Proven interpersonal skills in successfully driving value creation in cooperation with business and IT
• Proven experience (4+ years) in managing teams delivering data platforms or data products in energy sector, or related fields.

You have the following skills…

Beside that you have the ability to lead and motivate team members and other stakeholders in times of change. You have proven to be an excellent leader naturally applying the Vattenfall leadership criteria: connect people, accelerate learning and drive innovation. Furthermore, you have strong analytical, communication, problem solving and collaboration skills.

Additional Information

Our Offer

We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues as ‘Ask and Share’ concept is essential for the way we work. We offer attractive employment conditions (smart working, flexible working hours and a good-work-life balance) and opportunities for personal and professional development. Click here for further information.

Location

Solna

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Yasith Wickramasinghe, Manager Customer IT Nordics, at yasith.wickramasinghe@vattenfall.com For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Carolina Osterman at carolina.osterman@vattenfall.com

Trade Union representatives are Akademikerna – Sofi Wadström and Silvija Vatkovic, Ledarna – Christer Gustafsson, SEKO – Juha Siipilehto, Unionen – Inger Strandberg. You can reach them on 08-739 50 00.

We welcome your application in English no later than 2nd of December 2024. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website.