Embedded Software Manager

As a Lead Technology Initiatives Manager, your role will involve strategizing and owning Industry 4.0 and related business practices. You will be responsible for end-to-end project execution and delivery within planned schedules for multiple projects simultaneously. Your key responsibilities will include: - Understanding project requirements, disseminating them into individual tasks, estimating efforts, and planning accordingly. - Upholding customer satisfaction through value-based delivery. - Interface with global customers for project status accounting, task planning, and delivery. - Defining and managing daily tasks and responsibilities of the project team, demonstrating the ability to lead 10-15 team members spread across multiple projects. - Managing stakeholders from cross-functional teams within the organization and external vendors/partners. - Handling escalations from customers or internal stakeholders. - Understanding business pipeline through sales and senior management, defining hiring plans, and conducting interviews. - Ensuring compliance with Quality Management System (QMS) and participating in project audits by SEPG group. - Conducting annual appraisals, providing regular developmental feedback to the team, and identifying skill gaps to plan internal and external training. - Fostering an open work culture to instill confidence in the team, encouraging diversity of perspectives, and sharing knowledge effectively. Your area of expertise should include: - Expertise in industrial projects with manufacturing applications, controls, and analytics, with exposure to PLC, DCS, and SCADA systems. - Working with industrial interfaces and protocols such as MODBUS, PROFIBUS, FIELDBUS, OPC UA. - Overall project management and delivery. - Risk management including risk identification, tracking, mitigation, and contingency planning. - Customer communication, especially with US and Europe-based customers. - Strategic account management for long-term growth. - Embedded firmware architecture development for Industrial IoT (IIoT) domain. - Proficiency in various processor and microcontroller architectures. - Experience in bare metal, RTOS, and device driver development. - Linux Kernel programming, device driver development, and multi-threaded applications. - Knowledge of different distributions such as Yocto and openWRT. - Expertise in C and OOPS Programming languages, data structure, and design patterns in C++. - Bootloader (U-Boot) development for embedded systems. - Experience in wireless technologies such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, BLE, Threads, WiFi, and Sub-GHz. - Familiarity with debugging tools like KGDB, GDB, Valgrind, and static code analyzers. - Proficiency in networking protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT, HTTP, GSM, GPRS. - Experience in serial communication interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, I2C, SPI, MODBUS, and CAN. - Embedded GUI Development, particularly with QT or similar frameworks. Your required skills include proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, and Python, hands-on experience in BSP, board bring-up development, Linux kernel development, and low-level driver expertise. Additionally, you should be able to write high-quality, efficient, extensible, and maintainable code in a fast-paced Agile environment. Your familiarity with various interfaces, wireless technologies, hardware schematics review, microcontrollers/microprocessors, debugging applications, cloud communication, build systems, and embedded GUI development will be advantageous. Moreover, experience with SCRUM-based project management tools and understanding of security algorithms encryption and decryption will be beneficial.,