Director- Engineering

Roles & Responsibilities:-

• Responsible for driving digital strategy for ESS teams, collaborating, and partnering with Global ESS senior LT
• Define Digitalization strategy for various products considering competitor landscape working closely with Electrical Sector software team and Digital organization.
• Work with Product engineering directors to formulate & execute MGPP and MGTP in sync with growth goals for ESS.
• Shape Focus area and build portfolio that matters. Define clear road map for next 3 – 5 years and execute action items to mitigate identified gaps. Leverage newly built EIIC ecosystem for prototype and validation to accelerate time to market.
• Define DMP strategy for ESS in line with global DMP targets. Shape and execute big bet projects.
• Identify DtV projects and execute identified DtV projects as per VA ProLaunch methodology. Build partnership with newly formed DMP organization and own engineering deliverables to shape and execute commodity projects.
• Promote culture of CI and automation to improve OTD and FPY
• Build culture of innovation through planned events, participating in brain storming.
• Identify opportunities for filling disclosures and execute division goals for IP
• Lead and develop capabilities for a team of 130+ engineers for New Product Developments, Cost out, sustaining and application engineering projects.
• This leader would play a pivotal role driving UPS NPI’s, also venturing into Chargers in CPU for EIIC, Plus under Power delivery, EIIC would be tapping more to space of regulators in controls business. This requires a strong team of software designers who would be piloting Research and design work for EIIC. This leader is responsible to build that time, this team would target great revenue in alignment to Eaton Strat plan.
• Build Organization Capabilities – Hire and develop strategy for software talents for ESS business, there will 50more software designers to be hired and developed in the team in next two years to cater to expanded portfolio in ESS. This would be a team for software experts and leader has to manage and develop this team
• Leader would be responsible to develop depth and breadth of capabilities in product engineering in Power Electronics, controls, electromechanical firmware, and software as well as adjacent technology areas from Centers of Excellence
• Enable synergies for growth: Use of common CoE platforms in product development to improve Time to Market, Enhance effectiveness for ESS.
• Leader would partner closely with EIIC digital leader(SB14), ESA Leader (SB13) and global VP engineering leaders ES Americas to align to customer needs and strategies ESS roadmap globally and lead that for EIIC ESA group.
• Manages department budget and performance to forecast.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives for higher quality and productivity including but not limited to Design For Six Sigma, Agile Teach, Mentor and Coach DfX Green belt certifications for EIIC engineering community.
• Ability to work in matrixed environments and track record of demonstrated success in delivery of large-scale software development programs
• Provide Technical mentoring and guidance, clear obstacles, drive decisions, identify critical dependencies and risks; develop mitigation plans – including leveraging external resources, drive collaboration and resolution between functions.
• Able to review mentor adjacent software/firmware products for ES Americas team.
• Develop best in class QA organization and leverage QA best practices across the organization Effectively communicate plans, risks, status of deliverables to teams, management and stakeholders.

Qualification And Experience:-

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics Engineering from an accredited institution required. Preferred.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 15 years’ of experience leading engineering teams either as a technical lead or a functional manager through all stages of the application development lifecycle in embedded software and software enabled products
• Prior experience as organizational leader for a minimum of 5 to 7 years in globally distributed teams.
• Experience in developing embedded software solutions with a proven track record delivering high quality solution to customers.
• Innovation mindset demonstrated through patents, trade secrets or technology introduction experience.
• Thorough understanding of SLDC and embedded product life cycle with hands-on experience on version/ PLM tools such as Jira, BitBucket, Confluence, Atlassian tools chain.
• Experience in developing test strategies include manual and automation testing for web as well as mobile applications.
• Experience with embedded software development environment and tools for real-time operating systems (RTOS), FreeRTOS, or Embedded Linux

Location:-

• Pune, Maharashtra.

Company Overview:-

Eaton’s mission is to improve the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services. We provide sustainable solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power – more safely, more efficiently, and more reliably. Eaton’s 2020 revenues were $17.9 billion, and we sell products to customers in more than 175 countries.