Hitachi

R&D Verification & Validation Manager - Digital Service Solutions

Hitachi  •  Republic of Poland (Hybrid)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Location:

Krakow, Lesser Poland, Poland

Job ID:

R0125130

Date Posted:

2026-04-08

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY POLAND SP. Z O.O.

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule:

Full time

Remote:

No

The Opportunity

Digital services are becoming missioncritical to how we deliver value to customersacross cloud platforms, edge solutions, and industrial environments. We are strengthening our capability in Verification & Validation (V&V) to ensure that digital service solutions are not only innovative, but also reliable, scalable, secure, and fit for purpose across their full lifecycle.

This roleis responsible fordefining and leading solutionlevel verification and validation for digital service solutions spanning cloudbased, distributed, edgeconnected, and OTadjacent environments. The scope covers softwareintensive, continuously evolving digital services with strong nonfunctional requirements such as performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience.

In addition to shaping V&V strategy, standards, and governance, you will lead and develop the V&V organization and oversee the execution of V&V activities across projects and programs. You willoperateat the intersection of technology strategy, product development, and service delivery—bridging software, systems engineering, and industrial domains to ensure quality and reliability arebuilt infrom the start.

HowYou’llMake an Impact

  • Define and lead solutionlevel V&V principles, standards, and practices for digital service solutions across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments

  • Drive a riskbased and lifecycleoriented approach to verification and validation, covering both functional and nonfunctional aspects such as performance, reliability, scalability, and resilience

  • Lead, manage, and develop the V&V organization, ensuring the right capabilities, capacity, and ways of working to support multiple initiatives in parallel

  • Oversee and govern the execution of V&V activities across projects and programs, ensuring consistent application of standards while supporting speed and innovation

  • Collaborate closely with architecture, development, testing, and operations teams to embed V&V seamlessly into modern digital delivery models

  • Enable effective use of test environments, simulation, and virtualized setups tovalidatecomplex digital and cyberphysical systems

  • Act as a trusted expert and advisor to projects and programs, ensuring consistent quality outcomes

  • Contribute to the continuous evolution of V&V capabilities, keeping pace with stateoftheart digital engineering and service technologies

Your Background

  • A strong foundationin verification, validation, quality, reliability engineering, or systems engineering within digital, softwareintensive, or industrial technology domains

  • Solid experience working with cloudbased and distributed digital solutions, ideally including edge or OTconnected environments

  • Proven ability to define, govern, and oversee V&V frameworks and execution at solution or portfolio level

  • Experience leading or managing V&V, quality, or verification teams, including oversight across multiple projects or programs

  • Experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams—software, systems, product management, and operations

  • A structured, analytical mindset with the ability to balance risk, quality, and delivery pragmatically

  • Excellent communication skills, enabling you to influence without formal authority andoperateconfidently at senior levels

What’sin It for You

  • A strategic leadership role where your work directly shapes the quality and reliability of nextgeneration digital service solutions

  • The opportunity tooperateat enterprise scale, influencing standards, capabilities, and ways of working beyond individual projects

  • A collaborative, technologydriven environment with strong links to innovation, R&D, and service transformation

  • Exposure to complex, realworld digital challenges across cloud, edge, and industrial domains

  • A role designed for experienced professionals who want to combine technical depth with organizational leadership and strategic impact

More about us

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out.

We can provide more information during the recruitment process.

We are committed to full transparency and compliance with all legal requirements, ensuring that every candidate knows exactly what to expect at each stage of the recruitment process. Once the process is successfully completed, we will share detailed information about financial conditions and benefits with the selected candidate. Before signing the employment contract, you will receive all remaining details of the offer, giving you the time and space to review everything carefully.

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About Hitachi

Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has responded to the expectations of society and its customers through technology and innovation. Our mission is to “Contribute to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.” Over the past 100+ years this commitment has led us to work towards creating a more sustainable society through our “Social Innovation Business”. We work to apply our expertise in information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and a wide variety of products to advance social infrastructure systems and improve quality of life across the world.

Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business is centered around 5 growth sectors: Mobility, Smart Life, Industry, Energy, and IT. Globally, we have nearly 300,000 employees who are working to improve people’s quality of life and our customers’ social, environmental, and economic values to create a sustainable future. The challenges we face as a society are unprecedented, but so are the opportunities. Together, let’s start powering good.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Tokyo, JP
Year Founded
Unknown
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