Software Development Manager

About the Company

Avaron AB is a growing consultancy that matches your expertise with the market's most interesting assignments, offering a platform where your professional development is central.

In this role, you will lead a software work package within a railway software development context. You take ownership of planning, staffing responsibility, reporting and follow-up, and you ensure that deliverables are managed end-to-end with a clear focus on quality, cost and delivery commitments. You’ll collaborate closely with software architects, verification & validation, configuration management and quality functions, coordinating both local and remote contributors.

• Lead and manage the software work package deliverables, including staffing responsibility
• Produce and maintain the work package file for the overall software development
• Establish and maintain consolidated reporting for the work package
• Define and maintain management plans for software development
• Define the software project management plan including timelines, resources and budgets
• Contribute to software engineering management planning with software architects
• Contribute to verification and validation planning with relevant stakeholders
• Contribute to configuration management planning with the configuration manager
• Contribute to the software quality plan with the quality manager
• Organize software design reviews
• Organize and lead software development activities to meet quality, cost and delivery commitments
• Coordinate software design and development activities, including work performed by remote collaborators and subcontractors
• Participate in the product Change Control Board for the software scope and manage changes to software requirements
• Escalate risks and events that may impact quality, cost or delivery commitments
• Apply and ensure adherence to relevant processes and standards
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure expectations and requirements are met
• Track team and development performance against goals and objectives
• Identify improvement areas and implement changes to increase delivery success

• Engineering degree
• Experience in railway software development
• Good written English communication skills

• Experience in vital or secure software development

Selections are made on an ongoing basis, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible.