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Within Digital Foundation, E2E Digital Operations plays a key role in keeping our online customer journeys stable, resilient and continuously improving.\nEvolved Digital Operations, or EDO, brings together end-to-end operational visibility, proactive monitoring, automation, incident management, service integration, Site Reliability Engineering and close collaboration with product teams. Together, we help reduce disruption, improve reliability and enable teams to deliver customer value with confidence.\nAs Senior Engineering Manager for E2E Digital Operations, you will lead the teams that run and evolve H&M’s end-to-end digital operations service. This is a senior leadership role where you will combine people leadership, technical direction and operational excellence to create the conditions for scalable, reliable and customer-focused digital services.\nYou will translate business and technology priorities into a clear service roadmap, align multiple teams around shared outcomes and balance immediate operational needs with long-term technical health, security, compliance, cost efficiency and resilience. You will also work closely with product, engineering, architecture, commercial stakeholders, service management functions and external partners to improve how we operate at scale.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nYou will lead E2E Digital Operations as one integrated service across three teams:\nDelivery Excellence\n\nSite Reliability Engineering\n\nGovernance\n\nYour main responsibilities will include:\nService strategy and delivery\nOwn the end-to-end roadmap and technical delivery for EDO, connecting H&M Group priorities with clear, measurable outcomes.\n\nSet direction across multiple teams and make sure priorities, dependencies, risks and trade-offs are visible and actively managed.\n\nBalance delivery pace with service stability, resilience, security, compliance, technical health and long-term scalability.\n\nBuild a clear maturity path for EDO, helping the service grow in efficiency, proficiency and operational excellence.\n\nMake sure teams have the skills, capacity, tooling and ways of working needed to deliver and run the service successfully.\n\nOperational excellence and reliability\nOwn RUN performance and continuous improvement for EDO, using service, reliability and engineering insights to guide decisions.\n\nDrive an integrated operating model across 24/7 operations, service integration, SRE, governance and product teams.\n\nStrengthen end-to-end observability across customer journeys, including monitoring, alert quality, incident detection, escalation and operational decision support.\n\nImprove incident, problem, change, event and knowledge management outcomes while keeping processes practical, lean and aligned with global standards.\n\nPromote proactive and preventive operations through automation, AI-enabled capabilities, effective problem management and reduced recurring operational work.\n\nEnsure operational readiness for new and changed services through clear requirements, onboarding, knowledge transfer, runbooks, access, simulations and follow-up.\n\nTurn incident learnings and operational data into sustained improvements in reliability, recovery and customer impact.\n\nEngineering and technical leadership\nShape and communicate the technical and operational direction for EDO, aligned with Digital Foundation and wider enterprise priorities.\n\nSet and uphold engineering standards across architecture, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security, compliance and technical debt management.\n\nGuide technical trade-offs across teams so that decisions support both current operational needs and the long-term target state.\n\nStay close enough to the technology to challenge, support and coach engineering leaders and specialists without becoming a bottleneck for team-level decisions.\n\nCreate clear interfaces between EDO Digital and product teams so accountability, escalation paths and expectations are easy to understand.\n\nPeople and organisational leadership\nLead, coach and develop Engineering Managers, senior engineers and other leaders across the scope, guided by H&M values and leadership expectations.\n\nBuild a high-performing and inclusive culture where people collaborate well, take shared accountability and stay close to customer impact.\n\nClarify roles, decision rights and accountability boundaries across teams to reduce overlap and enable faster execution.\n\nDrive workforce and competence planning, including recruitment, development, succession and sustainable workload balance.\n\nEncourage continuous improvement of ways of working, technical capability and operational maturity.\n\nCollaboration, partners and financial accountability\nAct as the senior contact for EDO in enterprise-level planning, prioritisation and operational forums.\n\nBuild strong partnerships across Digital Foundation, other product areas, business stakeholders and supporting functions to resolve cross-service challenges and improve the customer journey.\n\nCommunicate clearly on outcomes, service performance, progress, risks, dependencies and investment needs.\n\nBe accountable for relevant technology costs, including budget, actuals and forecast, while continuously improving cost efficiency and total cost of ownership.\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nWe believe you are an experienced engineering leader who brings together strategic perspective, operational judgement and strong people leadership. You are confident leading through complexity and ambiguity, and you know how to align several teams and stakeholders around common goals. You believe that operational excellence is built through engineering discipline, learning, collaboration and purposeful simplification.\nAdvanced engineering expertise and a strong understanding of the end-to-end development and operations lifecycle.\n\nSolid understanding of architecture, scalable design principles, cloud fundamentals and modern engineering practices.\n\nProven ability to set technical direction and lead delivery across multiple teams or a large, complex service.\n\nStrong experience with RUN accountability, monitoring, incident management and SRE practices.\n\nAbility to use data, service measures and insights to improve performance and guide investment decisions.\n\nExperience managing technical debt, dependencies and risk across a complex technology landscape.\n\nStrong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing and deployment, and continuous improvement practices.\n\nStrong security and compliance awareness, with the ability to embed appropriate controls without creating unnecessary friction.\n\nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions across organisational boundaries.\n\nExperience leading and coaching managers, senior engineers and multidisciplinary teams.\n\nExperience working with vendors, managed services and external partners in an enterprise environment.\n\nFinancial acumen and experience managing technology budgets, forecasts and cost optimisation.\n\nBusiness understanding and the ability to communicate technical and operational topics in a clear, relevant way.\n\nCuriosity and enough technical depth to ask the right questions, challenge constructively and make sound trade-offs.\n\nWHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE\nAt H&M Group, we are proud to be a vibrant and welcoming company. We offer our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe.\nStaff discount card: Usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online.\n\nH&M Incentive Program (HIP): Included in our HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.\n\nCompetitive pensions: Collective Agreement and ITP pensions competitive to the Swedish market.\n\nGenerous vacation: 30 days' vacation, health care allowance, and good work-life balance.\n\nAdditional perks: Discounts from Benify.\n\nInnovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions.\n\nGlobal Impact: Be part of a team that influences users worldwide.\n\nProfessional Growth: Endless opportunities to learn and develop your skills.\n\nCollaborative Culture: Join a motivated team that values collaboration and excellence.\n\nJOIN US\nOur uniqueness comes from a combination of many things - our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it’s our people who make us who we are.\nThis is a full-time permanent position, starting as soon as possible according to the agreement. The role is a hybrid position, based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden.\nApply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through the career page.\nTake the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here. We are eager to meet you!\n*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. 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