Software Governance & Quality Specialist

Hitachi Energy; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Support for personal development

Job summary

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Software Governance & Quality Specialist to lead initiatives for enhancing software quality across product lines. You will define quality standards, drive team improvements, and ensure adherence to best practices throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

Your contributions will significantly impact the company's quality principles and operational excellence. This full-time position is based in Krakow, Poland, offering an opportunity to work in a collaborative and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Solid grounding in software engineering through higher education and substantial professional experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead software quality improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Introduce best coding practices and principles.
• Drive improvements in software quality metrics.
• Conduct reviews and guide systematic defect analysis.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Software quality improvement

Test automation

Static code analysis

Communication skills

Education

Higher education in software engineering or related field

Tools

Automation frameworks

Job description

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Software Governance & Quality Specialist to define and drive initiatives to improve software quality in collaboration with the R&D product lines. In this role, you will ensure that product quality specifications align with corporate and customer standards, while shaping end to end software quality governance and development standards to enable world class engineering practices. You will work independently with limited supervision, coach software development teams, and solve complex problems that impact multiple product lines. This is a full‑time position based in Krakow, Poland, with the mission to ensure software quality throughout the entire development lifecycle – from requirements and design, through implementation, verification, and validation.

How You'll Make Impact

• Introduce, develop and promote best coding practices and principles, design and implementation patterns.
• Drive improvements in software quality metrics development, implementation and reporting.
• Drive initiatives to systematically analyze software defects and implement countermeasures to prevent recurrence.
• Define minimum software quality requirements and update tool usage standards.
• Establish standards for the software development life cycle across the product lines.
• Support implementation of test automation and static analysis tools.
• Lead source code and design reviews.

Additional Impact Areas

Risk mitigation: Proactively identify quality risks in early development phases to prevent costly late-stage defects.

Process leadership: Act as a key driver for continuous improvement in software development processes and quality culture.

Cross‑functional collaboration: Bridge gaps between development, testing, and product management to ensure alignment on quality goals.

Innovation enablement: Scout and support adoption of modern tools and practices such as AI‑powered coding assistance, low‑code/no‑code platforms, DevSecOps, cloud‑native development, and sustainable software engineering.

Your background

• Solid grounding in software engineering or a closely related field, typically gained through higher education and substantial professional experience in complex software development environments.
• Demonstrated ability to lead software quality improvement initiatives that influence multiple teams, including the definition of quality standards, coding practices, and lifecycle process requirements.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including test automation, static code analysis, coding standards, design and implementation patterns, and metrics driven quality management.
• Practical experience in introducing and promoting best practice tooling and methods across R&D teams, including the adoption of automation frameworks and improvements to tool usage standards.
• Proven ability to conduct reviews, and to guide teams in systematic defect analysis and the implementation of effective countermeasures.
• Experience coaching team members and supporting cross functional collaboration with development, test, and product teams.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision, while contributing to complex problem solving and broader continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to represent quality requirements clearly and influence stakeholders across product lines.
• A continuous improvement mindset with enthusiasm for modern engineering methodologies and the evolution of quality related processes, tools and metrics.

More About Us

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out.

We can provide more information during the recruitment process.

Are you ready for a new exciting challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so don’t delay – apply today!

We are committed to full transparency and compliance with all legal requirements, ensuring that every candidate knows exactly what to expect at each stage of the recruitment process. Once the process is successfully completed, we will share detailed information about financial conditions and benefits with the selected candidate. Before signing the employment contract, you will receive all remaining details of the offer, giving you the time and space to review everything carefully.

Applicable only for Poland location align with local law regulations.