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Beyond overseeing day-to-day engineering activities, you will guide important technical and product decisions, balancing flexibility, interoperability, and long-term customer value.\nYour main responsibilities:\nOwn and drive the Milrem Interconnect and Milrem Operating System engineering roadmaps, ensuring alignment with company strategy, product priorities, and customer requirements.\n\nSet clear strategic and operational goals for the teams, establish priorities, and ensure accountability for results.\n\nDrive predictable, timely, and high-quality delivery of critical functionalities and engineering solutions, ensuring scalability and reliability.\n\nLead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives, ensuring effective coordination and delivery across teams and technical domains.\n\nCollaborate closely with product management, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to align engineering priorities with product strategy, customer needs, and business objectives.\n\nLead and develop engineering teams through senior technical specialists, fostering ownership, accountability, and high performance.\n\nBuild and lead high-performing engineering teams through recruitment, coaching, performance management, and continuous professional development.\n\nEnsure consistent application of agreed engineering processes, standards, and technologies across teams.\n\nDrive continuous improvement, promote engineering best practices, and foster operational excellence to enhance efficiency, quality, and delivery performance.\n\nCommunicate engineering strategy, priorities, progress, and risks clearly and effectively to teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.\n\nWhat we expect from you:\nProven experience leading and developing engineering teams, with a strong track record of people management, technical leadership, and delivering results.\n\nStrong technical background in software or systems engineering, preferably with experience in Linux-based systems, embedded software, middleware, DevOps, or systems architecture.\n\nUp-to-date technical understanding and the ability to confidently discuss engineering challenges, challenge technical decisions, and guide senior specialists without being involved in day-to-day implementation.\n\nProven ability to lead engineering teams in a dynamic environment, taking ownership, making independent decisions, and knowing when to escalate.\n\nExcellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to mediate between teams, manage competing priorities, and build strong working relationships.\n\nExperience translating business and product requirements into clear engineering priorities and achievable roadmaps, ensuring predictable and high-quality delivery.\n\nStrategic and business-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance technical decisions, customer needs, and long-term business objectives.\n\nPractical understanding of cybersecurity principles and how they apply to software and systems development.\n\nA proactive, structured, and solution-oriented approach, with a focus on accountability, continuous improvement, and team development.\n\nExcellent English communication skills.\n\nWhat makes this opportunity exciting?\nLead and shape engineering teams developing advanced technologies for the defence robotics industry.\n\nTake on a strategic leadership role with real influence over engineering direction, technical capabilities, and product development.\n\nWork on complex, innovative solutions that contribute to the future of autonomous defence systems.\n\nBuild and develop high-performing engineering teams while strengthening critical technical capabilities.\n\nCollaborate with experienced specialists and international stakeholders in a growing technology company.\n\nGrow professionally while making a meaningful impact in an ambitious, international environment.\n\nDiscover more about our culture, employee benefits, and lifeat Milrem:careers.milrem.com\nTo apply, please send your application by November 19th at the latest. 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