R&D Lead Software Quality - Digital Service Solutions

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Fitness programs

Benefits platform

PPK

Home office setup allowance

Eye care allowance

Team events

Psychological support

Free parking

Job summary

Hitachi Energy seeks an R&D Lead Software Quality for Digital Service Solutions to define and lead verification and validation across cloud, edge, and OT environments. You will shape strategy, governance, and the V&V organization while ensuring non‑functional excellence across multiple digital services.

You will collaborate with architecture, development, testing, and operations to embed V&V into modern delivery, drive risk‑based practices, and evolve capabilities to stay at the forefront of

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in verification, validation, quality, reliability engineering, or systems engineering within digital, software‑intensive, or industrial technology domains.
• Experience with cloud‑based and distributed digital solutions, ideally including edge or OT‑connected environments.
• Ability to define, govern, and oversee V&V frameworks and execution at solution or portfolio level.
• Experience leading or managing V&V, quality, or verification teams across multiple projects or programs.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead solution‑level V&V principles, standards, and practices for digital service solutions across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
• Drive a risk‑based and lifecycle‑oriented approach to verification and validation for functional and non‑functional aspects.
• Lead, manage, and develop the V&V organization across multiple initiatives in parallel.
• Oversee and govern V&V activities across projects, ensuring standards are applied consistently while enabling speed and innovation.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, testing, and operations to embed V&V into modern delivery models.
• Enable effective use of test environments, simulation, and virtualized setups to validate complex digital and cyber‑physical systems.
• Act as a trusted advisor to projects and programs to ensure quality outcomes.
• Contribute to evolving V&V capabilities to keep pace with state‑of‑the‑art digital engineering.

Skills

Verification & Validation

Quality engineering

Systems engineering

Cloud & edge

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

R&D Lead Software Quality - Digital Service Solutions

Digital services are becoming mission‑critical to how we deliver value to customers—across cloud platforms, edge solutions, and industrial environments. We are strengthening our capability in Verification & Validation (V&V) to ensure that digital service solutions are not only innovative, but also reliable, scalable, secure, and fit for purpose across their full lifecycle.

This roleis responsible fordefining and leading solution‑level verification and validation for digital service solutions spanning cloud‑based, distributed, edge‑connected, and OT‑adjacent environments. The scope covers software‑intensive, continuously evolving digital services with strong non‑functional requirements such as performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience.

In addition to shaping V&V strategy, standards, and governance, you will lead and develop the V&V organization and oversee the execution of V&V activities across projects and programs. You willoperateat the intersection of technology strategy, product development, and service delivery—bridging software, systems engineering, and industrial domains to ensure quality and reliability arebuilt infrom the start.

HowYou’llMake an Impact

Define and lead solution‑level V&V principles, standards, and practices for digital service solutions across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments

Drive a risk‑based and lifecycle‑oriented approach to verification and validation, covering both functional and non‑functional aspects such as performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience

Lead, manage, and develop the V&V organization, ensuring the right capabilities, capacity, and ways of working to support multiple initiatives in parallel

Oversee and govern the execution of V&V activities across projects and programs, ensuring consistent application of standards while supporting speed and innovation

Collaborate closely with architecture, development, testing, and operations teams to embed V&V seamlessly into modern digital delivery models

Enable effective use of test environments, simulation, and virtualized setups tovalidatecomplex digital and cyber‑physical systems

Act as a trusted expert and advisor to projects and programs, ensuring consistent quality outcomes

Contribute to the continuous evolution of V&V capabilities, keeping pace with state‑of‑the‑art digital engineering and service technologies

Your Background

A strong foundationin verification, validation, quality, reliability engineering, or systems engineering within digital, software‑intensive, or industrial technology domains

Solid experience working with cloud‑based and distributed digital solutions, ideally including edge or OT‑connected environments

Proven ability to define, govern, and oversee V&V frameworks and execution at solution or portfolio level

Experience leading or managing V&V, quality, or verification teams, including oversight across multiple projects or programs

Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams—software, systems, product management, and operations

A structured, analytical mindset with the ability to balance risk, quality, and delivery pragmatically

Excellent communication skills, enabling you to influence without formal authority andoperateconfidently at senior levels

What’sin It for You

A strategic leadership role where your work directly shapes the quality and reliability of next‑generation digital service solutions

The opportunity tooperateat enterprise scale, influencing standards, capabilities, and ways of working beyond individual projects

A collaborative, technology‑driven environment with strong links to innovation, R&D, and service transformation

Exposure to complex, real‑world digital challenges across cloud, edge, and industrial domains

A role designed for experienced professionals who want to combine technical depth with organizational leadership and strategic impact

More about us

At Hitachi Energy, we recognize that our people are at the heart of our success. We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive workplace, competitive rewards, and opportunities for professional and personal growth. Our benefits package is designed to help employees thrive both at work and in their personal lives.

Our benefits offering for this role generally includes:

• Private medical care and life insurance
• Access to fitness and wellness programs
• Access to benefits platform with discounts and perks
• Employee Capital Plans (PPK)
• Equipment for working from home or allowances for setting up a workplace at home
• Spectacles and contact lenses allowance
• Company events and team‑building activities
• Psychological support program
• Free parking available

Add if applicable: additional benefits may apply depending on the role, grade, and business requirements.

You will receive more specific information during the recruitment process.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.