Release Train Leader

Position Overview:

Scania has decided to establish a third industrial hub in China with the capacity to produce some 50 000 vehicles per year. Alongside building a new factory and an expansion of the sales network we will also establish a local R&D organisation in China. Our mission in R&D Industrial Operations Asia is to develop trucks specially adapted for the Chinese market, the biggest commercial vehicle market in the world. This requires many new systems and functions to be developed, tested, and introduced.

We are seeking a Release Train Leader with EE Propulsion and Energy domain background to join our dynamic E/E team, you will play a pivotal role in leading a team of talented engineers integrating Scania platform solution with localized components into our commercial vehicles.

Release train is a concept originated from the Scaled Agile Framework. A release train is a long-lived cross-functional agile team that incrementally develops, delivers and often operates one or more solutions in a value stream.

As the release train leader, you will work closely with a team of dedicated System Owners, Function Owners, Software Developers, Hardware Engineers and System Test Engineers as well as cross-functions such as purchasing, suppliers and production. Your job is to oversee the entire product lifecycle and lead the team to ensure the successful delivery of the cutting-edge Scania-based Propulsion and Energy solution in the Chinese market.

Key Responsibilities:

Team leadership and coordination

Lead the cross-functional propulsion and energy release train.

Establish clear objectives, priorities, responsibilities, and delivery expectations.

Coordinate the activities of System Owners, Function Owners, Software Developers, Hardware Engineers and System Test Engineers.

Identify and remove obstacles that affect the team’s progress.

Support the team in resolving technical, organizational, and delivery-related issues.

Way of working

Define and continuously improve the team’s way of working.

Establish clear processes for planning, requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, and release.

Establish routines for progress follow-up, risk management, dependency tracking, and issue escalation.

Ensure that development activities are aligned with the relevant project milestones and release plans.

Stakeholder and project representation

Represent the propulsion and energy release train towards project management and other stakeholders.

Communicate the team’s scope, progress, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and delivery status.

Align the release train with vehicle projects, platform strategies, product priorities, and technical roadmaps.

Escalate important issues and ensure that decisions are made at the appropriate level and within the required timeframe.

Feature growth and product alignment

Collaborate closely with the Feature Growth/Product Manager to translate product needs into realistic development priorities.

Provide technical input to feature planning, roadmap development, and release scope definition.

Ensure that feature priorities consider system architecture, hardware capability, software capacity, testing needs, timing, and available resources.

Balance short-term release commitments with long-term platform and product development.

Cross-functional collaboration

The Release Train Leader shall establish strong cooperation with:

Thermal team: Coordinate shared requirements, interfaces, operating modes, thermal limits, energy usage, and system behavior.

Propulsion Hardware and System teams: Align hardware capability, system architecture, control functions, software implementation, and system testing.

Battery team: Coordinate battery power capability, energy availability, charging, discharging, protection, diagnostics, interfaces, and operating modes.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

5-8 years of experiences in leading cross-functional automotive or commercial-vehicle development teams.

Good understanding of propulsion, energy management, battery, thermal, software, and system development.

Experience with release planning, milestone management, integration, and testing.

Strong communication, coordination, decision-making, and stakeholder-management skills.

Experience with Agile, SAFe, or similar development methods is an advantage.

Experience working with commercial vehicle OEMs is highly desirable.