Digital Technology Lead

Step into a team of passionate innovators shaping the future of sustainable building solutions. If you have a strong technical background a structured and pragmatic mindset and a drive to turn ambitious digital concepts into robust testable solutions you could be our next Digital Technology Lead.

Meet Your Future Team

You will join the Buildings of the Future department specifically the Radical Innovation & New Business Development team. Our mission is to explore and develop breakthrough solutions beyond traditional roof windows ensuring VELUX remains at the forefront of sustainable technology-enabled living spaces.

We are a diverse team of 10 people consisting of technical experts commercial specialists and design thinking professionals. The team is split across two locations Hørsholm and Østbirk and we work in an agile high-paced environment where we constantly challenge and support each other to achieve the best outcomes.

What We Offer

In this role you will play a central role in shaping the technical direction of our digital innovation initiatives. You will work end to end across the innovation funnel supporting both early exploration and later-stage validation and scaling decisions.

You will work closely with internal stakeholders and external technology partners to support solutions across the full innovation journey from early prototypes and demos to larger-scale pilots and market tests.

More specifically your tasks will be to:

• Act as technical lead across the innovation funnel by defining solution approaches key technical requirements and architecture recommendations that balance user needs scalability and technical trade-offs.
• Lead technical feasibility assessments and create high-level estimates covering time cost complexity risks dependencies and validation need to support informed investment decisions.
• Translate product concepts and value propositions into clear technical requirements assumptions constraints and measurable acceptance criteria for validation.
• Design and drive early-stage experiments such as prototypes technical spikes and proof-of-value demos to validate feasibility and critical assumptions efficiently.
• Guide the development of technical solutions from early prototypes through pilots and market tests ensuring appropriate quality technical readiness and clearly defined success metrics.
• Capture and synthesise learnings from experiments and pilots and translate them into clear recommendations on what to pursue pivot or stop.
• Identify select and manage external suppliers and technology partners defining scopes of work and providing technical oversight to ensure quality speed and fit-for-purpose outcomes.

What You Will Bring

You have a strong background in technical leadership and architecture and a proven ability to assess shape and guide complex digital solutions across multiple technical domains. You thrive in environments with ambiguity and pace and bring structure clarity and sound judgement to decision-making.

Moreover we expect that you:

• Hold a masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Science Electrical Engineering Digital Innovation or equivalent experience.
• Have hands on experience with creation of prototypes from early mock-ups and light coding to handling bigger MVP projects with external vendors.
• Demonstrate the ability to scope and guide the delivery of digital solutions across multiple technical domains.
• Understand cloud architectures data platforms API ecosystems and modern software development practices.
• Possess strong stakeholder management and communication skills including the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
• Have experience working with external vendors and partners and delivering through mixed internal and external teams.
• Are fluent in English.

Ready to apply

Learn more about the VELUX Group online at where you can read more about working at our company and what to expect of our recruitment process.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We are conducting interviews on an ongoing basis until we have the right match.

All inquiries will be treated confidentially.

About VELUX

In the VELUX Group we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the roof window category we enable those who live work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we can create real impact by reinvesting in society our employees and planet through our foundations. With 20 production companies in 12 countries and sales companies in 37 countries our products are widely available. We employ around 12000 people and our company is headquartered in Denmark. Alongside the rest of our values courage and mutual respect define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At VELUX Residential we believe in fostering a diverse workplace for everyone to thrive develop and perform at their best and where you feel welcome respected and valued. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all - whether you are applying for a role or already a part of VELUX Residential. That means we recruit hire train and promote people based on their skills and potential without regard to race color religion sex age neurodiversity disability protected veteran status national origin sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

We value diversity and strive to ensure that our employment decisions are fair and inclusive focusing only on what truly matters: your qualifications and how you can contribute to our shared mission and success.