Group Manager Infrastructure and Systems at Västervik Municipality

Telin Rekrytering & Konsult AB · Vollzeit

Västervik, Schweden

We are seeking a Group Manager for Infrastructure and Systems at Västervik Municipality's IT and Digitalization Unit. Your Responsibilities As a group manager, you will lead, develop, and monitor the work of the group responsible for operating, managing, and further developing the municipality's technical IT platforms – servers, storage, networks, security platforms, and central system components. The group is also responsible for operating the municipality's many business systems. You will ensure that the group delivers a stable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure that enables the municipality's operations and digitalization efforts. The role involves full personnel responsibility for the group's employees. You will build a well-functioning, collaborative, and skills-developed team. Given the technical nature of the group's mandate, you will act as a "working manager" – with emphasis on leadership but with sufficient technical understanding to contribute to technical prioritizations, requirements, and decisions. You will be part of the IT unit's management group (IT LG) and contribute to the unit's overall governance, strategy, and development. An important part of the assignment is creating structure and clarity in a group that works with both planned development work and ongoing operations. The group works agile with sprint-based planning, where you will drive sprint planning and backlog prioritization together with the team. The position may involve work with information, systems, and operations that have high security and structural requirements. The assignment involves collaboration with multiple parts of the municipality, companies, suppliers, and other external parties. Examples of Work Tasks: • Full personnel responsibility including recruitment, onboarding, employee conversations, salary reviews, work environment, and skills development. • Drive sprint planning and backlog prioritization together with the group and ensure that deliverables meet agreed quality and timeframes. • Follow up on the flow of issues from the business units, prioritize escalations, and balance planned work against reactive issue work. • Actively plan and monitor the group's budget, identify investment needs, and report budget deviations. • Drive and participate in development initiatives and projects affecting the group's area of responsibility, including the ongoing M365 transformation. • Act as a working manager and actively contribute to technical discussions, prioritizations, and decisions. • Present technology choices, principle decisions, and major changes to the IT Manager, IT LG, and other decision-making forums. • Work closely with IT Architect, IT Security Coordinator, other group managers, and external suppliers. • Actively participate in the IT unit's management group and contribute to overall governance, strategy, and goal tracking. Your Qualifications We are looking for someone with relevant education in IT or equivalent work experience that the employer deems equivalent. You have documented experience in leadership with personnel responsibility, preferably in a technology-focused environment. You have a good understanding of IT infrastructure and experience in planning and monitoring budgets and finances. You also have experience driving change and development initiatives in a technology-heavy environment. We would like to see that you have experience with several of the following: • Leadership with personnel responsibility in an IT or technology-focused environment • IT infrastructure: servers, storage, networks, virtualization, and basic security • Budget and financial monitoring in an operations-focused business • Agile working methods, sprint planning, and backlog management • Larger transformation initiatives, such as cloud migrations or M365 implementations • Supplier management and work with contracted services • ITIL processes and structured change management • Understanding of information security, NIS2, security protection, and related regulations • Experience in the public sector, preferably in a municipality or region • Work close to architecture functions and strategic IT work You communicate clearly in both spoken and written form, have strong collaboration skills, and communicate well with both technical and non-technical audiences. We believe you are a person with a coaching and clear leadership style who has the ability to build and develop teams. You have strong organizational skills, can prioritize between planned work and ongoing events, and drive matters forward even when conditions are not entirely clear from the start. Good knowledge of Swedish is required, both spoken and written. Other Information The position may be security classified, which means you must be a Swedish citizen and a security clearance will be conducted before any potential employment. If you need help finding housing, we will try to assist you. Relocation services at Västervik Municipality provide tips, information, and contacts for work, housing, schools, and more. Relocation services also arrange regular meetings for newcomers to provide opportunities to meet new people and find your way into life in Västervik. Read more about what Västervik Municipality can offer you as an employee at www.vastervik.se/jobba-hos-oss Welcome to apply! How to Apply In this recruitment, Västervik Municipality is collaborating with Telin Recruitment & Consulting, and you apply for the position via http://www.telinrekrytering.se/ We conduct continuous selection, so do not delay in submitting your application. We will also conduct background checks on you as a final candidate. We do not accept applications via email due to GDPR. For your application to be valid, please register and apply via our website. If you have questions or want to know more, you are welcome to contact the responsible recruiter Richard Herbertsson by phone 072-33 77 455 or email [email protected] If you are considering moving to Kalmar County, it is good to know that there is extra support and guidance available. 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