R&D Lead Software Quality - Digital Service Solutions

Hitachi, Ltd.; Kraków; On-site; PLN 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Fitness programs

WFH equipment allowance

Employee Capital Plans (PPK)

Parking

Company events

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Kraków seeks a senior leader to define and drive verification and validation for digital service solutions spanning cloud, edge, and OT-adjacent environments.

You will shape V&V strategy, standards, and governance while building the V&V organization and coordinating activities across projects and programs with software, systems, product, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in verification, validation, quality, reliability, or systems engineering in digital/industrial domains.
• Proven ability to govern V&V frameworks and execution across multiple projects.
• Experience leading V&V or quality teams with cross-project oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead solution-level V&V principles, standards, and practices.
• Drive risk-based, lifecycle-oriented verification and validation.
• Lead and develop the V&V organization across programs.
• Oversee execution of V&V activities ensuring standards while enabling speed.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, testing, and operations teams.
• Enable use of test environments, simulations, and virtualized setups.

Skills

V&V leadership

Quality engineering

Systems engineering

Cloud-based solutions

Edge computing

Stakeholder management

Senior-level communication

Education

Master's in engineering

Job description

The Opportunity

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 role is responsible for defining 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 will operate at the intersection of technology strategy, product development, and service delivery—bridging software, systems engineering, and industrial domains to ensure quality and reliability are built in from the start.

How You’ll Make 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 to validate complex 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 foundation in 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 and operate confidently at senior levels

What’s In It for You

• A strategic leadership role where your work directly shapes the quality and reliability of next-generation digital service solutions
• The opportunity to operate at 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.