Associate Director

Experience Range : 18 to 25 years

Job Location : Pune

Job Function, Roles & Responsibilities:

Lead technology initiatives for strategizing and owningIndustry 4.0 and related businesspractices, with

relevant experience in Industry 4.0 & IIoT

Overall responsibility of end-to-end projectexecution & deliverywithin planned schedulefor multiple projects simultaneously

Project requirements understanding, dissemination into individual tasks, effort estimation and planning

Upholding customersatisfaction through value-based delivery

Interface with global customersfor project statusaccounting, task planningand delivery

Defining and managingdaily tasks and responsibilities of the projectteam, with an ability to lead 10- 15 team members spread across multiple projects

Stakeholder management from cross-functional teamswithin organization and external vendors/partners

Escalation management from customers or internal stakeholders

Understand business pipelinethrough sales and senior management, define hiring plans and conduct interviews

Manage compliance to Quality Management System (QMS), and participate in project audits by SEPG group

Responsible for conducting annual appraisals, providing regular developmental feedbackto team, and identifying skill gaps to plan internal and external training

Foster an open work-culture to instill confidence in the team, and encouragediversity of perspectives and sharing of knowledge

Area ofexpertise:

Expertise in industrial projectswith manufacturing applications, controls, and analytics, with good exposure to PLC, DCS and SCADA systems

Expertise in workingwith industrial interfaces and protocols such as MODBUS,PROFIBUS, FIELDBUS, OPC UA

Overall projectmanagement & delivery

Risk management (risk identification, tracking, mitigation and contingency planning) Customer communication (US and Europe based customers)

Strategic accountmanagement and long-termgrowth

Embedded firmware architecture development for Industrial IoT (IIoT) domain Expertise in various processor and microcontroller architecture

Expertise in bare metal, RTOS and device driver development

Expertise in LinuxKernel programming, devicedriver development, multi-threaded applications Expertise in different distributions such as Yocto and openWRT

Expertise in C and OOPS Programming languages, data structure, and design patternsin C++ Expertise in bootloader (U-Boot) development for embedded systems

Experience in wireless technologies such as Zigbee,Z-Wave, Matter, BLE, Threads, WiFi,and Sub-GHz Experience with debugging tools such as KGDB, GDB, Valgrind, and static code analyzers

Experience in networking protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT, HTTP, GSM, GPRS

Experience in serial communication interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485,I2C, SPI, MODBUSand CAN

Experience in EmbeddedGUI Development, particularly with QT or similar frameworks, is advantageous

Skills:

Programming Languages: C, C++, and Python

Hands-on BSP, board bringup development experience

Linux kernel development with low-level driver experience, BSP, the board bring-up SDK development knowledge

Write high-quality, efficient, extensible, and maintainable code in a fast-paced Agile environment Interfaces: PCIE, USB, I2C, SPI, MDIO, MQTT,Rest API

Wireless: Z Wave/ZigBee/Matter/Thread/BLE/WIFI Hardware schematics review and PCB debugging

Microcontroller/Microprocessors: 16/32-bit Debuggingapplications using debugging tools. Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics

Debugging tools: like logic analyzer,digital oscilloscope, JTAG,KGDB, JDB Expert in USB, AUDIO/VIDEO, RF protocols

Cloud communication: AWS or Azure or customercloud Build system: Yocto, OpenWRT, Makefiles etc

Embedded GUI Development – QTor similar

Expertise in at leastone technology - Wi-Fi, audio/video, display, camera

Experienced with SCRUM-based project management tools such as JIRA, DOORS,Agile Embedded GUI Development – QT or similar

Working experience in security algorithms encryption and decryption Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics Debugging tools: like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope

Complete SDLC life cycle understanding

Scrum mastercertifications in team management

Educational Criteria:

BE/ME/B.Tech/M.Tech – Electronics / Electronics & Communications