Level: Experienced

Job Field: Software, Project

Employment Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent employment

Salary: from 70.000 € Gross/Year

Location: Vienna

Working Model: Hybrid, Onsite

Job Summary

In this role, you lead a team of developers, are responsible for strategic planning and management of technical projects in safety-critical systems, particularly in the railway technology sector.

Your role in the team

Leading a development team of approximately 10 people.
Responsible for skill management, setting the strategy, and monitoring progress towards goals.
Contributing to the creation of project plans regarding scope, timelines, efforts, costs, and dependencies in close collaboration with program management.
Ensure technical project milestone fulfillment to achieve goals and meet or exceed customer expectations.
Establish trust with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, eliminating non-value-added activities and blockers and also finding creative ways to accelerate project delivery.
Communicate status and critical issues clearly in a short and concise format.
Manage issues and risks, create mitigation plans and escalate to appropriate stakeholders as necessary.
Working in the area of safety critical systems.

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Our expectations of you

Education

Technical education, preferably Master studies in Computer Science or similar.

Qualifications

Strong communication, problem-solving, organizational, and delegation skills.
Project management knowledge is considered as beneficial.
Positive attitude and persistence are key to succeed in this role.
Competitive mindset, strong desire to achieve.
Excellent level of German and good level of English.

Experience

Minimum 3 years experience with technical team management on engineering projects.
Experience in traditional and agile software development, software integration.
Experience in an industrial sector like automotive, telecom or process control as well as knowledge of safety critical systems, especially rail signaling systems, are considered beneficial.

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What we offer

The salary for this position starts at € 70,000 gross per annum.
Actual compensation is based on experience and qualification.
Sehr gute Erreichbarkeit mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln (Wien Handelskai) & Zuschüsse für den öffentlichen Nahverkehr.
Flexible working hours and, depending on the position, up to 60% home office.
Christmas and New Year's Eve are family occasions - Hitachi Rail Austria grants holidays on December 24th and December 31st.
Discounts for employees (canteen, shops, corporate benefits, tickets, etc.).
Various training opportunities - online, internal and external training courses.
A stable employer in a collegial and international environment.