Digital technology lead

Hitachi Energy Sweden AB; Ludvika kommun; Hybrid; SEK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working time

Health care and wellness allowance

Fantastic career possibilities

Mentorship support

Various trainings and education

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Sweden AB is seeking a Digital Technology Lead to spearhead the transition from analog to digital systems in production. You will guide development teams, improve workflow efficiency, and collaborate across engineering and business needs.

The ideal candidate has experience in complex digital implementations, a strong background in Scrum or Kanban, and must be fluent in both Swedish and English. The role offers flexible working, health care benefits, and significant career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing digital systems in complex environments.
• Strong background in Scrum or Kanban with proven delivery flow improvement.
• Fluent in Swedish and English, both written and verbally.

Responsibilities

• Lead the introduction and structuring of digital systems in production.
• Coach developers in a DevOps-aligned Scrum environment.
• Improve estimation accuracy and workflow efficiency.

Skills

Digital systems implementation

Scrum or Kanban

Workflow management

Collaboration with development and QA

Fluency in Swedish and English

Tools

Azure Boards

Jira

GitHub Projects

Job description

Digital Technology Lead

Are you passionate about enabling teams to deliver high quality digital solutions - and equally excited about bringing modern digital systems into environments that still rely on paper? In this role, you will lead the transition from analog to digital ways of working in production, while coaching development teams to deliver predictably, sustainably, and with strong technical excellence. You will be the bridge between engineering, operations and business needs, ensuring that digital tools, structures and data governance create real impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the introduction and structuring of digital systems in production and administration, replacing paper-based processes with scalable and sustainable digital solutions.
• Coach developers in a DevOps‑aligned Scrum environment, strengthening technical practices and team‑wide ownership.
• Improve estimation accuracy, workflow efficiency, WIP management, and overall delivery predictability.
• Ensure digital governance, data structure, and engineering practices support long‑term quality, automation, and operational reliability.
• Use boards and visual workflows to highlight dependencies, risks, bottlenecks, and flow performance for continuous improvement.
• Guide teams in delivering features with proper logging, monitoring, security, error handling, and release readiness built in.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing digital systems in complex environments and understanding the challenges of shifting from analog to digital processes.
• Strong background in Scrum or Kanban, with a proven ability to improve team delivery flow and technical alignment.
• Skilled in breaking down, refining, and prioritizing work in tools such as Azure Boards, Jira, or GitHub Projects.
• Ability to define and maintain workflows, DoR/DoD, technical tasks, enablers, spikes, and architectural work.
• Comfortable collaborating across development, QA, DevOps/platform teams, and business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of digital governance, data structure, lifecycle considerations, and quality aspects essential to modern DevOps delivery.
• Mandatory to be fluent in Swedish and English, both written and verbally.

Benefits

• Collective agreement
• Flexible working time
• Health care and wellness allowance
• Fantastic career possibilities within Hitachi Energy both within Sweden and globally
• Mentor to support you throughout onboard phase
• Various trainings and education supporting employee development
• Diversified company with over 70+ nationalities working in Sweden
• Supplementary compensation for parental leave
• Employee Benefit Portal with thousands of discounts and perks

Recruiting manager: Lotta Nedar ([e-mail])

Talent Acquisition Partner: Johanna Davidsson Drakou ([e-mail])

To apply, please visit the careers page on our website.