Software Development Manager

The Company:

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping the production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous — ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Hexagon’s Mining division solves surface and underground mine challenges with proven technologies for planning, operations, and safety.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.5bn USD. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

Purpose of Position:

As the Software Development Manager, you are the leader responsible for the people and technical capabilities within the software development organization. You will lead a team composed of software developers, QAs, and QA automation specialists, focusing on talent acquisition, career development, and building a high-performing culture. Your primary role is to serve the development team, empowering them with the skills, tools, and environment needed to successfully partner with the wider product organization. You will be a key leader in enabling the delivery of an autonomous, connected ecosystem that boosts efficiency and quality for our customers.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

Talent and Team Development:

• Lead all aspects of human resource management for the development team, including talent acquisition, performance reviews, and professional growth.
• Focus on building a resilient team with high retention and a strong sense of purpose.
• Provide leadership, motivation, and mentorship to all members of the development team.
• Actively coach and develop your team members, ensuring they have the skills to discover and deliver solutions effectively and successfully.

Oversight and Delivery Enablement:

• Act as a servant leader for your team, with a primary focus on identifying and removing obstacles that impact their progress.
• Champion and enable the team's ability to deliver frequent, small, reliable, and decoupled releases that are properly instrumented and monitored, with a goal of delivering new capabilities to customers at least every two weeks.
• Instill a focus on achieving valuable outcomes for our customers and business, shifting the priority from merely shipping features to achieving real business results.
• Foster a culture optimized for learning by guiding the team to work in small, incremental steps, enabling continuous feedback and experimentation.
• Promote architectural principles that manage complexity, such as high cohesion, appropriate modularity, and a clear separation of concerns in the systems the team builds.
• Ensure that development processes serve the team and the customer, promoting a culture where principles are valued over rigid process adherence.
• Partner with the Scrum Master, who is responsible for day-to-day team operations, to enhance team effectiveness and flow.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

In our organization, successful delivery is the result of intense, structured collaboration between highly specialized roles. As the Software Development Manager, your primary focus is on the people and capabilities of your development team, and you will collaborate closely with a network of leaders to empower your scrum team to successfully deliver products to the market.

• The Product Manager defines the “what” and the “why”, focusing on the market, business, and customer problems to be solved.
• The Solution Architects and System Architects define the general and detailed technical architecture.
• The Scrum Team, which you manage, defines the "how", collaborating to discover and build the best possible solution.
• The Scrum Master is responsible for the continuous improvement of team operations, ensuring the team's process is effective and efficient.
• The Product Owner builds, triages and maintains the team backlog from business requirements, technical enablers, team solution as well as lifecycle tickets.
• The Release Train Engineer manages dependencies and the execution of the Program Increment from an Agile perspective.
• The Project Manager manages the execution from a business perspective, including the final product release preparation such as marketing.
• The QA Manager (QAM) provides oversight to the overall QA process.

Your role is to act as the central point of support for your team members (developers, QAs, and automation specialists), ensuring they can navigate this ecosystem, contribute effectively, and successfully deliver on their commitments within this cross-functional structure.

Knowledge and Experience - Required:

Education & Experience:

• A relevant University qualification in Computing, or a related technical field.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in a commercial software creation environment.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience as Software Development Manager.
• Significant, proven experience managing and leading software teams consisting of developers and quality assurance personnel.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and refining processes that enable team health and high-quality software delivery.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Exceptional team leadership ability, with a focus on coaching, mentorship, and career development.
• Strong knowledge of modern software creation methodologies, particularly Agile principles.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with a wide diversity of stakeholder groups and individuals.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• A high level of personal drive, self-motivation, and adaptability to change.

Knowledge and Experience - Desired:

• Exposure to the Scrum methodology and SAFe.
• A background in a technical role within the software lifecycle.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.

Travel:

• Some travel to other regional offices may be required to attend workshops and conferences is expected.

Benefits:

Hexagon is committed to helping our employees thrive as they balance their work and life. We offer competitive pay and incentive-based bonuses. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, retirement savings with company matching, life insurance, disability, mental health support, and much more. For your continued learning and professional development, we provide education assistance, funding for professional association memberships, mentorship programs, and access to tools and resources to move your career forward. We maintain a positive and comfortable work environment, with employee-led social clubs, and flexible schedules. Some benefits offered are dependent if you are hired on as full-time, part-time, or temporary status.

Hexagon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against any job applicant based on protected characteristics.