R&D Verification & Validation Manager - Digital Service Solutions

Hitachi Energy; Kraków; On-site; PLN 233,545 - 318,471; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits for wellbeing

Opportunities for professional development

Collaborative and innovative work environment

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Kraków, Poland, is seeking a leader in Verification and Validation (V&V) for digital service solutions. This role involves defining and leading V&V practices across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments while managing a talented team. You'll collaborate closely with engineering and operations to ensure that digital services are reliable and efficient.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in verification and quality assurance within digital and industrial technology contexts, along with strong communication skills to influence senior stakeholders. This strategic leadership position comes with competitive benefits aimed at fostering professional growth.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in verification, validation, quality, and reliability engineering.
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions and industrial technology domains.
• Ability to define and oversee V&V frameworks at the solution level.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution-level V&V for digital service solutions.
• Drive risk-based verification and validation approaches.
• Collaborate across teams to embed V&V into delivery models.

Skills

Verification engineering

Validation engineering

Quality assurance

Cloud-based solutions

Systems engineering

Communication skills

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

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.

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.