Vacant job

Assignment Overview

We are seeking an experienced Interim Engineering Manager

What You Will Work On

People & Culture Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering team members to achieve defined goals
• Drive recruitment, performance management, and employee well-being
• Establish and strengthen a positive, value-driven team culture
• Promote continuous improvement and effective ways of working
• Ensure a safe, compliant, and sustainable work environment

Delivery & Business Outcomes

• Ensure teams deliver according to commitments through active follow-up and risk management
• Align engineering work clearly with business objectives and measurable outcomes
• Drive agile, iterative development enabling continuous business value delivery
• Ensure adherence to SDLC across the full product lifecycle (discovery, delivery, operations)
• Safeguard product quality, technical efficiency, and operational stability
• Oversee incident handling, security, upgrades, performance optimization, and scalability
• Manage technical debt, decommissioning plans, and documentation standards

Technical Excellence & Collaboration

• Provide technical guidance and coaching throughout the development lifecycle
• Ensure the right technical competence within teams through skills development
• Identify and manage dependencies across the technical ecosystem
• Optimize processes to balance delivery speed with engineering quality
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, other Engineering Managers, and key stakeholders
• Establish clarity around mandates, priorities, and execution even in ambiguous situations

Budget & Resource Management

• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation
• Ensure cost awareness and cost-efficient solution delivery
• Understand key financial drivers within technology operations

What You Bring

• Academic degree from university or equivalent higher education
• Fluency in Swedish and English, both written and spoken
• 4–8 years of broad and/or deep professional experience in a relevant role
• Proven people management experience leading development teams
• Hands-on leadership experience within modern software development environments
• Strong understanding of cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS) and DevOps principles
• Experience working with agile methodologies
• Experience leading distributed teams
• Experience from financial services or other regulated industries
• Experience managing multiple teams simultaneously
• Experience with budget and cost responsibility in larger organizations
• Experience driving transformation initiatives or organizational change
• Strong leadership presence with excellent communication skills
• Structured and results-oriented mindset
• Ability to create engagement, ownership, and accountability in teams
• Decisive and action-oriented, even in complex environments
• Strategic perspective combined with operational pragmatism

Assignment Details

• Scope: Full-time (100%)
• Location: Skåne, primarily Malmö
• Work Model: Hybrid (approximately 60% onsite)
• Responsibility: Lead three teams (one in Stockholm, two in Malmö)