Team Leader Responsibilities
You are a passionate, professional, and progressive leader with eyes on the horizon and feet on the ground. As a Team Leader, you should enjoy building and motivating high-performing teams and actively participate in strategy and execution. You should act as a role model for leaders and individual engineers as we develop Python domain and community.
You need to have several years of experience as a practitioner (SW Engineer) and be a technical expert in the Python domain. Demonstrated leadership qualities to coach people or a few years' experience of leading people, preferably in the Python Domain, is also crucial. Working with agile methodologies comes naturally to you.
Other Skills
- Knowledge of software design and software architecture would be an asset, as well being familiar with topics such as automated deployment processes (CI/CD) and Microservices
- Experience with API, user authentication/authorization, and integrations
- Unit testing, TDD
- Experience with Cloud programming and Docker containers
- Relevant University degree or similar
- Excellent proficiency in English is a requirement
Lead the brightest brains to make a brighter world. If you’re a passionate, progressive Python expert, come and lead some of the brightest people as they search for solutions to enable a smarter, safer, and more sustainable transport and infrastructure industry.
Python Team Leader Role
As Python Team Leader (named Python Chapter Lead at our organization), you are a technically skilled domain expert with the additional responsibility as a line manager. You will contribute to common ways of working across the Software Engineering Chapter through methods and best practices according to standards, technologies, and trends. Your main responsibility, beside coding, will be to lead and manage a team of Python engineers at your location.
We are experiencing the greatest shift in the history of transport and infrastructure. Tomorrow’s vehicles and construction equipment are electric, connected, and autonomous, increasing safety and reducing environmental impact. With more than 1 million connected vehicles, Volvo Group is at the forefront of this evolution. Our ambition for 2030 is to be 100% safe, fossil-free, and more productive, and to have 50% of revenues coming from areas other than our physical products. The shift is here, are you in?
Digital Transformation at Volvo Group
We are on an exciting journey within Volvo Group Digital & IT. Digital Delivery is a new function within the Volvo Group Digital & IT that aims to identify and execute new digital initiatives and modernize existing solutions across the Volvo Group brands. With a new product-centric operating model and modern technology architecture, we create digital products that are profitable, scalable, and differentiated. We use a cross-functional approach to work on product design and deliveries that improve business performance and create value for the entire Volvo Group.
Here you will lead a team of software engineers who learn continuously and embrace change to stay ahead.
Lead, develop, and attract a team of talented Python engineers, supporting their personal growth and challenges on assignments. Develop and execute the competence strategy for Python engineers within your team, meeting with chapter members to discuss and drive excellence in areas such as best practices, frameworks, and tools. Manage capacity planning, ensuring short and long-term competence and capacity of the Python software engineers. Work with stakeholders across the Volvo Group to be in line with changing business needs. Secure external input and best practice sharing in the community. Secure agile ways of working. Be involved in day-to-day working in delivery or product teams or contributing to an assignment. Balance your time between line manager and team member. You will be part of the Software Engineering Leadership Team and report to one of the Chapter Area Leads.
Requirements
- Python
- Microservices
- API
- Unit testing
- TDD
- Docker
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