Tech Director

Summary

Join Volkswagen Group Services' Volkswagen Digital:Hub in Spain as a Technical Director leading a 40-50 person team across product delivery, technical writing, and training. You will manage technical teams, provide technical guidance, deliver performance reviews, and hire talent. The role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and experience in software engineering. The position offers fully remote work capability, professional development tools, flexible hours, a competitive holiday package, and employee discounts. This is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career within a dynamic and supportive start-up environment.

Requirements

• BA Degree in Computer Sciences (or FP) and/or professional experience in Software
• Software engineering background working with different technologies
• At least 8 years of technical experience, with a minimum of 4 years as Team Lead / Engineering Manager
• Good management skills and great team spirit
• Experience working on a diverse portfolio of products at all stages of development and live service, identifying risks and issues, mitigating and resolving them
• Experience leading a multi-team software product delivery
• Ability to adjust, prioritize and re-align delivery in response to changing business needs
• Technical proficiency and the ability to understand, discuss, and challenge architectural concepts, tradeoffs, and new opportunities with technical team members
• Experience hiring, leading, developing and evaluating team members
• Fluency in English, Spanish and German at least B2 level

Responsibilities

• Establish, Build and Lead a 40-50-person team across product delivery, technical writing and training materials, driving initiatives to reduce operational costs for the business and most importantly customer and business success
• Running 1:1s listening to your Team Leaders and product owners, giving them your support and supporting them in their professional and personal development
• Managing Technical Teams: You will lead and manage a team of technical professionals, including Team leads, programmers, product owners, product designers, QAs, DevOps, to ensure that all technical aspects of the projects are developed and implemented effectively
• Enable your business unit to deliver a multi-team large scale strategic product
• As the Technical Director, you will provide technical guidance and direction to the development team, helping to identify technical challenges and providing solutions to address them
• Delivering fair performance reviews in order to build trust and motivate your team leaders and product owners
• Hiring the best talent for your Business Unit, ensuring that the team is adequately resourced, trained, and motivated to perform to the best of their abilities
• Ensure Guidelines, Best Practices and Architecture between cross teams. Motivate and cultivate a strong and proactive team culture to drive both large platform and process changes, including many cross functional initiatives
• Work with other Business units/Tech Directors to deliver strategic change and drive the business forwards
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presentations, bid defenses, workshop facilitation, business and report writing
• Be a Delivery Advocate & Enabler, growing and maintaining strong and productive working relationships with our business partners across the Volkswagen Group. Travelling internationally to meet with them on a regular basis (at least monthly)
• Establish six-monthly OKRs, help teams define them and follow up on them month by month

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in German language

Benefits

• Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed
• Access to professional development tools and free language courses
• Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs
• A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts