Tiger Team Lead

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Your role

As Tiger Team Lead, you will build and guide a small, high-impact group of specialists dedicated to solving the Business Unit's toughest technical challenges. A technical strike team with the mission to step into critical projects, remove obstacles to delivery and accelerate the path from concept to reality – while demonstrating how modern tools, automation and AI-enabled development can improve the way we design, build and deliver.

Main responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the BU's new Tiger Team, a 4-6 person cross-functional group of elite engineers.
• Lead short, high-impact technical missions to unblock delivery, accelerate MVPs, and prototype reusable solutions.
• Embed temporarily in Product Units or Core Dev squads to solve urgent technical challenges.
• Champion modern engineering practices, tools, and automation – including AI-assisted development – in close collaboration with Saab Corporate to help teams across the BU deliver faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence.
• Deliver reference implementations and reusable modules that feed back into the BU platform.
• Define and maintain Tiger Team engagement processes with clear entry/exit criteria.
• Coordinate closely with Program Management, Product Owners, architects, and CoE leads to ensure platform alignments.
• Manage team priorities, capacity, and rapid context-switching to meet BU needs.
• Report on mission outcomes, adoption, and lessons learned to BU leadership.

Your profile

• 10+ years in software/system engineering, with proven leadership of high-performing teams.
• Broad technical skill set (full-stack, integration, platform engineering).
• Proven ability to identify, evaluate, and introduce modern engineering tools, frameworks, and practices – including AI-assisted development.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders in adopting new practices.
• Experience in C5ISR or other complex mission systems is an advantage.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work in ambiguous, high-pressure contexts.
• Comfortable with rapid prototyping and producing production-quality code.

We value not only your skills and experience, but also place great importance on your personal qualities. To us, it is essential that you contribute to a positive working environment, enjoy collaborating with others, and have an attitude that supports both the team's and the organisation's development.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,000 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.