Delivery and Development Lead (RTE/Delivery Lead)

Universitets- och Högskolerådet · Full-time

Solna, Sweden

Are you an experienced Release Train Engineer, Delivery Lead, or development leader who wants to use your expertise where it makes a real difference? At UHR, you'll have a key role in developing and coordinating digital services used by students, educational institutions, and citizens across Sweden. We're on an exciting development journey where you'll have significant influence over both deliveries, working methods, and the continued development of our product organization. The Swedish National Board for Higher Education (UHR) is a government agency with a broad mission in society. Our vision is education, exchange, and development – for everyone who wants to move forward. We're now looking for a Delivery and Development Lead, a key role to strengthen our capabilities in digital development. This role has been created to strengthen collaboration between product management, development, and operations, as well as give the organization better conditions for high delivery capability and long-term quality. You'll have the opportunity to help shape both the role, the development model, and our future way of working. What you will do/be responsible for As Delivery and Development Lead, you're responsible for ensuring that digital development is coordinated, efficient, and follows common working methods. You create the conditions for prioritized initiatives to be translated into feasible development by strengthening collaboration between product management, development teams, and the operations organization. You have a central role in creating structure, transparency, and progress in development work and contribute to enabling the agency to deliver value in a predictable and sustainable way. In the role, you're also responsible for UHR's development model and ensure that working methods, processes, and forums create coordination, efficiency, and high delivery capability. Examples of work tasks Lead planning, coordination, and follow-up of development deliveries based on sprint and interval planning. Serve as the hub between the product and development organization and create conditions for an efficient and well-functioning delivery flow. Responsible for further developing the agency's agile development model, processes, and working methods. Lead joint planning sessions, synchronizations, and operational forums to manage dependencies, create alignment, and ensure progress in development deliveries. Identify, highlight, and coordinate management of risks, obstacles, dependencies, and deviations that affect delivery capability. Drive continuous improvements that strengthen delivery capability, collaboration, and development processes. About you We're looking for someone who combines a structured approach with a strong drive to develop both deliveries and working methods. You're experienced in creating alignment between different stakeholders and have the ability to work both strategically and operationally. You're solution-oriented, communicative, and confident in navigating complex environments where different roles, needs, and perspectives need to collaborate to achieve results. Requirements – mandatory Academic degree in a relevant field, such as IT, systems science, engineering, or business, or equivalent experience. At least five years of experience leading, driving, and following up development work in cross-functional and complex environments with many stakeholders, in a role such as Release Train Engineer (RTE), Delivery Lead, Delivery Manager, development leader, agile coach, or similar. At least five years of experience developing, implementing, and following up common working methods, processes, and methodologies in agile product development. At least five years of experience leading agile planning and collaboration forums between multiple teams and stakeholder groups. Very strong ability for collaboration, holistic perspective, proactivity, and flexibility. Very strong communication skills in Swedish and English, both spoken and written. It is a merit if you have Experience working in the public sector or other regulated operations. Experience in change management and business development. Experience collaborating with external suppliers and partners. Experience in continuous improvement work for both products and working methods. Experience working within SAFe. Familiarity working in Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent tools. We place great emphasis on personal suitability. What we do and offer UHR has several missions in society whose common denominator is to create opportunities for development for Sweden's citizens. We have approximately 320 employees in Solna and Visby. UHR's goal is to be an attractive employer where employees and managers work together for long-term development. We offer a professional and stimulating environment with good opportunities for personal development. We are committed to recruitment free from discrimination and do not see further adjustments as an obstacle. Department of Digitalization and Service Development The Department of Digitalization and Service Development is responsible for driving and creating conditions for efficient IT development and utilization of digitalization opportunities from a holistic perspective of the agency. The department works with the entire chain, from national collaboration, strategic work, needs identification to implementation of service and product development, infrastructure, and user support. Unit for Product Development and Delivery The Unit for Product Development and Delivery is part of the Department of Digitalization and Service Development with lifecycle responsibility for the agency's digital products, with the aim of providing greater benefit to citizens and society. The agency's product managers and product owners are located here. Most of our development is carried out by external suppliers, with whom we have close collaboration. Apply and become one of us! Welcome to submit your application in the form of a CV in Swedish marked with reference number 2.2.101485-2026. When submitting your application, we ask that you answer a number of selection questions. The application deadline is September 22, 2026. The position is full-time and permanent with start date by mutual agreement. UHR applies a six-month probationary period. Work location is Solna. https://www.uhr.se/om-uhr/uhr-som-arbetsgivare/vi-erbjuder/ https://www.uhr.se/om-uhr/ If you have any questions about the recruitment, you're welcome to contact the recruiting manager Charlotte Arfwidson phone. 072 226 53 56. Representative for Saco-S is Kerstin Martínez phone. 010- 470 04 69 and for ST Anneli Schönning phone. 010-470 05 76 or E-mail: mailto:[email protected]. The Swedish National Board for Higher Education has made a legal disclosure for this recruitment. We therefore decline contact from job ad sellers or other providers of recruitment services.