Job Summary

Lead the development, delivery, and operational excellence of OTA (SOTA/FOTA) platforms and services for connected vehicles. The role combines engineering leadership, program execution, stakeholder management, and organizational development to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable OTA capabilities across global vehicle programs.

Responsibilities

Engineering People Leadership

- Lead, develop, and scale high-performing software engineering teams.

- Drive hiring, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and career development.

- Foster ownership, accountability, collaboration, and engineering excellence.

Program Delivery Ownership

- Own end-to-end delivery of OTA features and engineering commitments.

- Drive execution plans, milestones, resource allocation, release readiness, and risk management.

- Ensure predictable, high-quality, on-time delivery.

- Manage dependencies across product, architecture, cybersecurity, validation, cloud, and vehicle software teams.

Stakeholder Global Collaboration

- Serve as key interface for global stakeholders, customers, and leadership.

- Communicate delivery status, risks, mitigations, and engineering KPIs.

- Align distributed teams and partners to common business objectives.

Agile Operational Excellence

- Drive Agile/SAFe execution, backlog prioritization, and continuous improvement.

- Use engineering metrics to improve efficiency and delivery predictability.

- Manage technical debt, quality, sustainability, and compliance.

Quality, Compliance Governance

- Ensure adherence to ASPICE, ISO 26262, cybersecurity, and software quality processes.

- Drive governance, milestone reviews, risk assessments, and management reporting.

- Champion a quality-first engineering culture.





Good to Have - Technical

OTA Connected Vehicles

- SOTA/FOTA platforms, OTA campaign management, and deployment orchestration.

- Vehicle software lifecycle, fleet management, and connected vehicle ecosystems.

- Vehicle-cloud communication architectures.

Cloud Backend

- AWS/Azure/GCP and cloud-native architectures.

- Microservices, distributed systems, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.

- Java/Python/Go, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and DevOps.

Automotive Cybersecurity

- Connected vehicle platforms, SOA, AUTOSAR Adaptive, Linux, Ethernet, diagnostics, and telematics.

- ISO 21434 and UNECE R155/R156 awareness.

- Secure updates, PKI, code signing, and secure deployment.

Tools Practices

- Jira, Confluence, GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket.

- Release management, CI/CD, and data-driven engineering KPIs.

- Experience in globally distributed automotive software organizations.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's/master's degree in computer science, Electronics, Electrical, Automotive Engineering, or related field.

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership.

- Proven experience leading multiple teams and large-scale global software programs.

- Strong people leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational development skills.

Ideal Profile: Delivery-focused engineering leader with robust people-management and organizational scaling capabilities, with experience in OTA, connected vehicles, cloud, or automotive software platforms.

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