Head of Technology / Software development

As a result of the sale of the BPO division of Visma, Visma Services, Visma Employee Management and Visma Personnel has been renamed Azets.

Azets is a new company - but with a rich history. Our dedicated employees will continue to offer the same skills and expertise within accounting, advisory, recruitment services, payroll and HR. Our services and solutions remain unchanged. Azets is represented in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Romania.

We are looking for a Head of Development for Azets Software, part of an international group working with professional services within finance, accounting and HR. The group is currently serving clients mainly from the Nordics and UK. You will be part of the management team based in Stockholm, where the Head of Product is responsible for the “what” and you will lead the development, devops- and operation teams on the “how”. Making sure that our software development has good best practices and that the technical platform is up to par both today and tomorrow. As the business side has recently expanded rapidly there is a high demand for suitable technical solutions; opening up new exciting opportunities. You will lead the development teams (20+ developers located in Vilnius and Poland) from Stockholm, and from time to time be on-site to enable the best possible collaboration. 

You will make sure that you have the right competencies and at times drive recruitment together with the local team in both Sweden, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. The team is using a modern tech stack and makes 2-3 daily releases across the SaaS product portfolio using agile principles and continuous deployment. 

About you

To succeed in this role, you have an agile mindset, you need to be a proactive leader and take responsibility for the whole delivery. You like to coach and support your team members while you are not afraid of taking tough decisions. 

As you will lead a distributed team of developers you need to have the ability to both communicate clear directions as well as create trust and freedom so the team builds up autonomy and own thinking. You are used to setting your own agenda and together with the dev team drive necessary improvements.

We think you have experience from:

Leading a tech organization
Working with distributed teams
Experience of the whole chain from dev to ops
Driving change and agile ways of working
Having a strong security focus 
Developer background
 

It's a plus if you have experience with:

PHP, C#
Javascript (Angular, React, Vue.js)
AWS Cloud Native development
Docker, Kubernetes
SaaS single page application development
Architecture, architectural patterns / evaluating trade-offs
CI/CD
Integrations (REST, Messaging Queues, SSO)
Relational databases
 

What can this role offer

You will be part of our management team 
You will get a lot of freedom to drive a dev team in a smaller environment but within a larger setup.  
You will be part of a team creating new features that will reach a large customer base.
Modern SaaS company with high potential and a well-established client base. 
Continuous development environment (2-3 releaser per day)
The company has great market potential in immature markets
 

About Azets

Azets mission is to be recognized as the leading and differentiated international business services group delivering critical business support, BPO and advisory services to our chosen markets. Our client’s leading market position will be underpinned by its innovative, leading-edge technologies.  In total, they have 170 offices, more than 7000 dedicated employees who serve more than 100,000 customers within a wide range of industries. 

If you have any further questions, please contact recruiting manager Kenneth Mattsson, +46704067655 

Selection takes place on an ongoing basis and the appointment of the position can be settled before the application deadline.