What you’ll do:
Leadership and people (manager of managers)
- Lead an organization of 45 to 50 embedded software engineers through 3 to 5 engineering managers and technical leaders.
- Own hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, career development, succession planning and retention for your leaders and their teams.
- Build a robust leadership bench, reduce single-point dependencies and develop the next line of managers.
- Set clear goals and priorities, run an effective operating rhythm, and create a healthy, inclusive and high-performance culture.
Delivery and execution
- Deliver more than 95 percent on-time delivery across key portfolios while operating within a flat headcount and budget envelope.
- Own release predictability, software quality, defect triage, field issue resolution and customer escalations.
- Drive Agile and Scrum practices, milestone planning, risk management and cross-team dependency management.
Technical governance
- Provide technical direction across embedded firmware, desktop, on-premise, cloud-connected and mobile applications.
- Own architecture governance, design and code reviews, reuse strategy, technical debt reduction and platform thinking.
- Ensure engineering rigor for safety-critical and regulated products, including functional safety and cybersecurity compliance.
Portfolio and stakeholders
- Own multiple product lines across emergency lighting, fire safety, intrusion and UPS systems from concept to sustaining.
- Partner with product management, global engineering leaders, quality, supply chain and customers to align roadmaps and commitments.
- Contribute to annual operating planning, capacity planning, vendor strategy and capital and operating expense decisions.
Innovation and AI adoption
- Champion AI-assisted engineering (for example code assistants and test automation) and drive measurable productivity and quality gains.
- Lead innovation initiatives, protect time for experimentation, and encourage patents, discl
📌 Engineering Manager- Embedded Software (Pune)
🏢 Eaton
📍 Pune