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About us

The Digital Office drives the digital initiative portfolio for Digitalization & IT. We support the organization with structure, transparency, and clear decision-making support, ensuring that our digital investments create real value.

You will join a team that works closely with business and product areas across the company. We value collaboration, openness, and a practical approach to solving problems. Our work environment is friendly, supportive, and focused on helping teams deliver with clarity and purpose.

About the role

As Developer Experience Lead, you define and improve the engineering principles, practices, and tools that enable a consistent and high-quality software development environment. You strengthen developer productivity by reducing friction in workflows, promoting good engineering practices, and continuously improving the technical foundation that supports software delivery.

Job responsibilities:

• Define and maintain software development principles and engineering standards

• Promote best practices for code quality, refactoring, testing, and maintainability

• Support consistent use of frameworks, libraries, and patterns to reduce complexity

• Help development teams apply agreed engineering practices in a practical and effective way

• Drive continuous improvement of the software factory with a strong developer focus

Your profile

We are looking for someone with a strong engineering mindset and who enjoys helping teams improve how they work. You can communicate technical topics in a clear way and balance pragmatism with maintaining quality. You take an enterprise‑wide view, identify recurring technical challenges, and encourage continuous improvement. You build trust through collaboration, openness, and a service‑oriented approach.

Job Qualifications / Skills / Experience

• Several years of experience in software development or software engineering

• Solid understanding of modern development workflows, including CI/CD and source control

• Experience promoting engineering standards or best practices

• Ability to advise teams on code quality and long-term maintainability

• Strong communication skills with an ability to explain technical topics simply

·       Desirable

• Experience working with developer tooling or platform engineering

• Experience with modern cloud-based development environments

• Background in improving engineering culture or developer experience

This position is based in Trollhättan, Sweden, as such, the applicant should be able to gain the right to live and work in Sweden. Travel to other locations within the global GKN Aerospace group is expected.

Application process

We look forward receiving your application as soon as possible! If you have any questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, please contact recruiter Johan Zizala at Skill, email [email protected].