Head of Core Development & Platform

Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realise amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.

Your role

As the Head of Core Development & Platform, you will lead the development of a next-generation, cloud-based platform that connects our products across multiple operational domains. You will build and lead a high-performing engineering and product organisation, delivering scalable, reusable solutions that enable faster delivery, higher quality, and greater interoperability.

You will lead a high-performing engineering and product organisation spanning Platform Engineering (cloud-native core services), Product and System Management, Centres of Excellence and specialist teams, as well as a Tiger Team focused on accelerating delivery and unblocking high-priority initiatives. The role also covers DevOps, tooling and developer enablement, ensuring efficient workflows and secure delivery pipelines across the organisation.

This is a high-impact leadership position with visibility across the group, direct influence on the business unit's growth, and the opportunity to set platform standards that will define how our forces operate for years to come.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead BU Digital Battlespace Solution´s (DBS) core platform organisation, delivering a robust, scalable and reusable foundation for all products and external platform opportunities.
• Own the platform roadmap and ensure alignment with BU strategy, domain needs, and long-term interoperability goals.
• Drive platform-first delivery, ensuring all mission applications and domain solutions reuse common services wherever possible.
• Be a visible champion for engineering excellence, actively scanning for and implementing modern tools, frameworks, to raise developer productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.
• Ensure platform is architected for secure integration of AI/ML-enabled capabilities and advanced analytics.
• Collaborate closely with Strategy & Partnerships, PUs, and Marketing & Sales to shape platform direction and opportunities Represent the platform capability in group forums, partner engagements, and industry events.
• Embed a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing across the BU.

Your Profile

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced leader with excellent communication skills who is also a people's person. You are strategic and analytical, with a strong ability to solve complex problems while also being hands-on and results-oriented when needed. With a structured and disciplined approach, you take ownership of your responsibilities and cultivate an environment of openness and trust. Your leadership fosters collaboration, inspiring those around you to achieve greatness. You are a confident leader with a proven track record of building and motivating teams, and you have a communicative leadership style that builds trust internally and externally.

To succeed in this role, we believe you have:

• Proven leadership experience in large, multi-disciplinary engineering or product organisations, particularly in complex, mission-critical environments.
• A track record of delivering secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms and reusable core services.
• Experience introducing and embedding modern development tools and practices across distributed teams.
• Deep technical expertise, with the ability to quickly understand and apply technology in a military C5ISR context; defence experience is a plus but not required.
• A strong background in platform architecture, system integration, and DevOps.
• An understanding of AI/ML-enabled systems and the architectural considerations for secure, scalable integration.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a matrix organisation, with the presence to influence senior levels.
• A structured way of working that you can also create and communicate to your team.
• A keen interest in learning new things and adapting to different environments and cultures.
• Experience managing product roadmaps and portfolio governance.
• Fluency in both Swedish and English.

We value not only your skills and experience, but also place great importance on your personal qualities. To us, it is essential that you contribute to a positive working environment, enjoy collaborating with others, and have an attitude that supports both the team’s and the organisation’s development.

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

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 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.