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# Software Project Manager for Railway Systems

- **Company:** Hitachi Digital Services Alle Jobs anzeigen
- **Location:** Wien, Austria
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Logic, Communications Protocols, Middleware, Software Project Management, Safety Critical Systems, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careerjet.at/jobad/atd8bd1335494fb01ce376abd03f369dc1

## About the Role

Technical education, preferably Master studies in Computer Science or similar
Minimum 5 years experience with technical project management with a focus of SW resp. SW/HW engineering projects
Knowledge of safety critical systems or experience in railway domain is an advantage
Positive attitude and persistence are key to succeed in this role
Competitive mindset, strong desire to achieve
Knowledge of project management tools
Very good level German & English

## Description

Hitachi in Austria is a full system provider and global supplier of train control technology and traffic management systems (e.g. European Train Control System (ETCS), Electronic interlockings, Operation Control Centers and dispatching systems, field elements).
The route control product development team focuses on middleware layer building blocks like run-time execution environment, redundancy management, communication protocol stacks, boot/download procedures and diagnosis, which close the gap between operating system services and railway specific business logic.
As part of our global center of competence for ETCS L1 track side located in Vienna, you are as technical project manager leading a team for the development and integration of new product versions within our modern ETCSL1 track side system portfolio.
YOUR CHALLENGE
Technical project management and coordination of the development and test
Managing project with respect to project milestones, scope and budget
Working in the area of embedded safety critical systems
Manage issues and risks, create mitigation plans and escalate to appropriate stakeholders as necessary
Communication and reporting of status and critical issues in a short and concise format
Working in an international team and in cooperation with other business line units


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