Strategic Technology Lead

Are you an experienced technology leader who can connect strategy, technology and execution? Do you enjoy solving complex challenges, creating alignment across organisations and turning ambition into tangible results?
Your role
At Saab, Common Tech drives the Polaris strategy, our shared direction for accelerating customer value through software, data and AI.
A key part of this work is delivered through Polaris Frontrunners; strategically important, software-intensive initiatives across Saab's Business Units and product portfolio. These engagements help accelerate customer value while contributing to the evolution of Saab's shared software, data and AI capabilities.
The initiatives vary in scope and focus, ranging from enabling new technology capabilities to supporting the evolution of complex software-intensive products, systems and solutions.
As a Strategic Technology Lead, you will lead Frontrunner engagements, bringing together stakeholders from across Saab and Common Tech to establish direction, create momentum and drive collaboration across organisational boundaries. You will ensure the right people, capabilities and decisions come together to move initiatives forward.
Operating at the intersection of technology, business and strategy, you will help transform opportunities into outcomes, enabling both immediate business value and long-term capability development across Saab.
Key responsibilities include:
Leading and orchestrating Polaris Frontrunner engagements from qualification through execution and value realisation
Creating alignment between Business Units, Frontrunner teams and Common Tech to ensure progress towards shared objectives
Coordinating Common Tech contributions, maintaining the Frontrunner roadmap and securing commitments from relevant delivery teams
Driving the follow-up of deliveries, proactively managing risks, dependencies and obstacles to maintain momentum
Facilitating planning activities, governance forums and decision-making processes across multiple stakeholders
Communicating progress, priorities and escalation needs to leadership, while advocating for Frontrunner objectives across Common Tech
Your profile
We believe you have:
An academic degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related technical discipline
A background in R&D, working with the development of complex software-intensive products and systems
Experience from product development environments within industrial or other technically advanced organisations
Experience leading initiatives in matrix or decentralised organisations, where success depends on influencing and aligning stakeholders across multiple teams
Strong stakeholder management, communication and facilitation skills
The ability to bridge technology and business, translating technical challenges and opportunities into strategic direction and business value
Professional proficiency in English
As a person, you are curious, pragmatic and comfortable navigating ambiguity. You enjoy solving difficult problems, building relationships and creating progress where the path forward is not always clearly defined.
You are confident enough to challenge when needed, yet collaborative in how you bring people along. Most importantly, you can move comfortably between technical discussions with engineers and strategic conversations with senior leaders, helping both groups move towards a shared goal.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
What you will be part of
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Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 30,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.
Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here
Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.