Engineering Manager to SEB Life & Pension | Stockholm

Stockholm
Life – Life & Pension /
Data & IT /
Hybrid
Since SEB was founded in 1856, our focus on customers and long-term relationships has been at the heart of our success. We aim to drive positive change by providing capital to help everyone reach their goals and accelerate progress towards a sustainable tomorrow.
 
 
Life & Pension in SEB is one of the largest pensions and insurance provider in Sweden and we serve both corporate and private customers. Our offering consists of products and services for important life events and by this we create certainty in an uncertain future. As a subsidiary in a large financial service group, we are able to benefit from a small company’s advantages that give you as an employee the possibility to influence and at the same time get access to a large company’s possibilities to develop and grow.
 
About the role:
We are now looking for an Engineering Manager forour new IT area, Quality and Engineering Hub. The area will have a domain responsibility for solutions and processes that are used cross domain by all teams; development, test, incident and support.
 
The area consists of 13 employees and consultants; DevOps Engineers, back-end developers, support personnel, test engineers and incident coordination handlers.
 
 As an Engineering Manager you will be responsible for: 
·         Driving the software development and maintenance / life cycle management forward together with your employees and colleagues cross-functional
·         Securing stable operation of the maintained solutions 
·         Capacity and delivery planning for the teams, ensuring that the right competencies and skills are in place.
·         Driving Reliable and Optimized operation within the domain
·         Securing development of shared software and infrastructure
·         Collaborate with Product Owners and business representatives to secure the correct focus and scope of the team’s work. 
·         Drive change initiatives as part of the business plan and promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement to ensure efficient ways-of-working, high quality solutions and managed risks.
·         Take responsibility for the IT-contracts relevant to your area, with support from legal and vendor management.
 
To thrive in this role, we believe you:
·         Have a couple of year's managerial experience, preferably within the tech area leading developers and other technical specialist.
·         Have a technical background with some work experience from software development
·         Have a good knowledge of the ITIL-processes
·         Have experience from change management, contract management, budgeting and planning.
·         Have strong communication skills and you are fluent in both Swedish and English.
·         Academic background within Computer Science, Data, engineering or equivalent
·         Beneficial with experience from life and insurance products
 
What we offer:
·         Entrepreneurial Scandinavian environment  
·         International opportunities and working environment
·         Attractive compensation and access to SEB staff banking with exclusive benefits 
Welcome with your application
Since we select candidates continuously, feel free to send in your application today, but no later than 19th of May 2024. If you have questions about the position, please contact Head of IT Lena Schaumann at lena.schaumann@seb.se or Karl Saeter, karl.saeter@seb.se 

Learn more about working at SEB here: www.sebgroup.com/career  
 
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