IT Governance Manager – Electricity Grid Balancing
Workplace: Sundbyberg, Sverige
Expires: August 25, 2025
Svenska kraftnät is a key player in the energy transition, expanding its IT division to support doubled electricity production and a fossil-free future. As an IT Governance Manager in the balancing object, you lead the IT part of delivery in a complex environment with a central role in the Swedish and Nordic electricity system. You manage the governance plan, prioritize efforts, coordinate resources, and oversee budget and delivery quality. The role involves building cross-functional collaboration, agile delivery structures, and representing Svenska kraftnät in Nordic and European forums.
Main requirements:
- Experience as IT Governance Manager, IT project manager, or similar delivery role for IT systems.
- Several years leading IT teams (development, operations, governance, or similar).
- Experience leading work with agile methods (e.g., Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Team Lead).
- Experience managing IT budgets and resource/competence planning.
- Ability to express oneself clearly in spoken and written Swedish and English.
- Confident and assertive in uncertain situations with good empathy and result orientation.
- Structured and process-driven work style, able to organize, plan, and complete tasks on time.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure deliveries align with strategy, goals, budgets, and quality targets.
- Develop, coordinate, and monitor the governance plan and budget jointly with business governance leaders.
- Drive the development of the agile delivery organization within the governance object.
- Ensure staffing, resource allocation, prioritization, and cost control.
- Coordinate and collaborate with IT architects, system owners, project and security functions.
- Serve as a link between development, governance, operations, and business internally and with external partners.
- Represent Svenska kraftnät in Nordic and European collaboration forums.
- Develop and monitor IT agreements and supplier commitments.
- Prepare materials and presentations for steering groups and management.
Required hard skills:
- IT governance and delivery management experience.
- Team leadership within IT.
- Agile methodologies and leadership (Scrum, Agile Coaching).
- IT budget and resource/competence planning.
- Swedish and English language proficiency.
Recommended hard skills:
- Experience with ITIL-based processes (incident, problem, change).
- Experience in security classified environments.
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow.
Soft skills:
- Confidence and assertiveness in uncertain contexts.
- Empathy and ability to listen and understand others.
- Result-oriented and ambitious.
- Structured and process-oriented.
- Good communication skills.
Frameworks:
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum
Natural languages:
- Swedish (Proficient)
- English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Ability to work in cross-functional and international teams
- Networking and collaboration across organizational and national boundaries
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