Senior Project Leader within SW Release Automotive/Software Engineering

Senior Project Leader within SW Release – Consulting Assignment within Automotive/Software Engineering

Introduction
We at WeQuel are now looking for a Senior Project Leader within SW Release in Gothenburg, where you will become an important part of the Release Leader team with a focus on leading and operating the software release process for complete vehicle software baselines. In this role you take ownership of your own release deliveries while also helping shape the future of the Release Leader capability by coaching colleagues, driving improvements, and strengthening the team's way of working.

As a consultant with us, you get the opportunity to work with one of our clients, a leading company within the automotive and software engineering industry, where you contribute to ensuring predictable, high-quality software deliveries and to strengthening release governance and cross-functional collaboration.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate software releases through the complete release process

• Drive planning, prioritization, issue resolution and release readiness activities

• Collaboration with stakeholders across Engineering to ensure successful deliveries

• Act as a senior Release Leader and role model within the team

• Coaching and mentoring of other Release Leaders, sharing knowledge and best practices

• Drive improvements to ways of working, release governance and cross-functional collaboration

• Lead selected improvement and transformation initiatives within the Release Leader community

• Contribute to building a strong Release Leader culture

• Strengthen the team's overall capability for future challenges

You work in a dynamic environment where you independently drive your deliveries forward while collaborating with multiple interfaces across the organization.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience from large-scale software development and delivery organizations

• Proven experience leading complex projects, transformations or organizational change initiatives

• Experience within software release management, software integration or software program leadership

• MSc in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Fluent in English, written and spoken

• Strong coaching, mentoring and leadership capabilities

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Swedish driving licence

• Structured, proactive, communicative and collaborative approach, able to influence without formal authority

Assignment details

• Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

• Start: 2026-09-14

• End: 2027-06-30

• Workload: 100%

• Onsite: 100% ONSITE

• Fluent in English and Swedish, written and spoken

• Note: Background check required before assignment start

We offer:
At WeQuel, you become part of a consulting team that values people first – we believe success is created through engagement, collaboration and development. We offer a flat organization with short decision paths, a strong sense of community, and the opportunity to shape your own development.