Organization\: Power Products Division, Intl. Hub

Job Title\: PP Product Architect

Description

Location\: Bangalore

Roles & mission

The Product Architect plays a coordination role on a product development, on top of his technical missions.

He/she belongs to the technical team, but the role is transversal across the squads or teams.

He/she owns, in the technical team, the global knowledge of the product, customer experience, applications, standards, supply chain, etc.

On the technical side, he/she is managing the global compliance of the product to the marketing specifications & standards.

Job Responsibilities \:

Starting from PP Strategy and Hubs Strategy, the PP Product Architect is in charge to propose innovative architectures for products to\:

§  Manages the global technical specification at product level and has the responsibility to ensure the adequacy between the needs and technical constraints, along project life

§  Bring advantage and differentiation versus competition

§  Respond to customer use cases and pain points.

§  Global knowledge of standards, or is at least able to activate experts’ networks when needed and ability to define future standards’ evolution.

§  Guaranty product integration and system compatibility (installation, electric, digital).

§  Maximize re-use and define product and system invariants; ensures the technical consistency of the design inside the project, but also with companion projects (platforms, standardized components, etc)

§  Participates in technical reviews inside the different squads to ensure adequacy of decisions with global product needs

§  Propose the best optimized architecture in terms of cost and performance.

§  Work closely with Strategic and League Marketing to analyze business impact.

§  Participate actively to PP Architecture Community of Practice.

§  Lead competition, technology, and patent watch.

In pre-development, development, and continuous engineering, PP Product Architect is in charge to ensure that product and system architectures are respected to guaranty all product and system functions.

Qualification

Professional Experience

§  Master degree or equivalent by experience.

§  10 years of projects’ development experience.

§  10 years of experience in EM products and ideally PP products.

§  Good social skills and empathy with a passion and drive for innovation.

§  Experience in coaching and mentoring, and successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.

§  Experience with complex technical projects in an Agile environment.

§  Senior technology leadership experience.

§  International exposure / experience – proven ability to lead in a matrix environment.

Soft Skills

§  Strong leadership capability to inspire, motivate and lead.

§  Strategic mindset.

§  Urgency, Speed and Quality.

§  Analytical and synthesis mindset\: organized, time bounded, sensitive on cost and quality.

§  Transformation and change management skills.

§  Ability to build strong interactions with stakeholders / Strong ability to work in a matrix organization.

§  Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.

§  Operational mindset.

§  Autonomy.