Position Overview
- The mission of Siemens BuildingX platform is to simplify and accelerate digital transformation in the building industry by providing a unified, open, and scalable platform for managing building operations across multiple systems and vendors
- BuildingX Platform brings together data and systems from across a building (e.g., HVAC, lighting, security, energy management and workplace) into a single platform, eliminating silos
- It supports sustainability by optimizing energy usage, reducing emissions, and helping buildings meet ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) goals
- By using AI, analytics, and automation, BuildingX helps facility managers operate buildings more efficiently and proactively
- And it is designed to be vendor-agnostic, meaning it can integrate with third-party devices and systems, not just Siemens products
- SI Buildings Software Tech Units (SI B SW) mission is to build this BuildingX digital business platform that offers modular, cloud-based services that can scale with the needs of the building or portfolio.
- VP, IOT Engineering, is an outstanding opportunity to work across a wide range of IOT services and applications to realize the SI B SWs vision
- You'll have a chance to work alongside recognized product and software visionaries, creating platform that is, at a fundamental level, changing the way building systems and human communicate to operate at optimal level and make a better place
Responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Create short term and long term ramp down strategy for Enlighted IOT and execute it.
- Lead the legal entity ramp down and liquidation
- Manage the customer contract end of life and ensure customer service / support through the ramp down period
- Manage the Enlighted IOT ramp down in a controlled and optimized cost
- Lead our engineering team, developing the capabilities of that team through hiring, mentoring, and hands-on management
- Work with your team to define an operational rhythm that balances high output with sustainable development. We care about what we build and how we build it.
- Guide decisions around the long-term technical direction of architecture
- Balance near-term priorities with longer-term bets, exercising strong judgment about which problems need a just-enough solution and which require deeper investment
- Represent the Engineering team across the company. For example, understanding top-line business priorities and aligning your team's work to them, or ensuring our platform meets the requirements of our enterprise customers.
- Ensure our service is available 24/7 by defining our operations, prioritizing the right investments to support this goal, and helping to identify strategic investments that will improve our security, privacy, scalability, and availability
- As part of SI B SW leadership team, help drive our next wave of revenue growth
We would love to hear from you if:
You have previous experience as a leader in enterprise cloud platform and have been part of challenges during growth journeys.
You have honed a broad set of management skills, including building teams with a diverse set of backgrounds around the world and growing other managers.
You have experience leading teams building cloud-based distributed systems and can guide our platform through scale curves and avoid common pitfalls. Experience with modern, cloud-first architecture is a must.
You care deeply about the quality of the software you ship, you understand and appreciate the power of great design, and you are excited about building products that real people love to use and change status quo
You thrive in an environment that requires you to wear many hats and operate at multiple altitude levels.
You take a strong sense of ownership in the business and are excited to collaborate with partners across the organization to succeed together.
You have a point of view but are low ego.
Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience
Knowledge / skills:
Technical skills:
- Deep knowledge of atleast one of the Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services related to compute, storage, networking, and security.
- IoT Ecosystem: MQTT, CoAP, AMQP, HTTP/HTTPS
- Software Architecture: Microservices, Event-driven architecture, Serverless
- API design (REST/GraphQL): Scalable, high-availability system design
- Data Engineering & Analytics: Real-time data processing (Kafka, Spark), Time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)
- Security: Understanding of IoT and cloud security best practices, including encryption, authentication, authorization, and secure communication.
- Engineering Management & DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- SDLC management using Agile/Scrum/Kanban: Quality assurance, test automation
- Technical debt management and code quality standards
- Leadership & Strategy: Create and execute the 1-to-5 year roadmap for IOT rampdown and execute it. Managing the customer contracts end of life. Building and scaling high-performing engineering teams
- Budget and resource planning: Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, sales, and customer success
- OKRs and KPIs tracking: Vendor and partner management
- Ability to make build vs buy decisions
Soft Skills (Critical)
- Executive communication and influence
- Ability to hire, mentor, and retain top-tier engineering talent
- Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
- Customer-oriented thinking
Education:
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Preferred: Masters degree (MTech / MS / MBA)
- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent (Azure/GCP)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or similar Agile certs
Experience:
- 15+ years in software/technology engineering roles
- 5-8 years in leadership positions, preferably including Director, Sr. Director, or VP roles
- Proven experience with IoT platforms or products, especially at scale
- Background in enterprise SaaS, particularly in B2B contexts
- Successfully launched and scaled at least one cloud-native IoT platform
- Experience managing distributed teams across geographies and time zones
- Involvement in hardware/software integration is a plus
This role is based in Chennai, where youll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries and the shape of things to come.
