Position: Senior Technical Specialist.

Reports to: Principal / Sr. Principal.

Department: GES

Division: GNA

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JOB PURPOSE: To provide technical direction to a team of engineers and support personnel engaged in EMBEDDED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT / EMBEDDED SOFTWARE TESTING ( HIL ) with a focus on technology, quality, and delivery to customers.

JOB RELATED STATISTICS: NIL

JOB DUTIES:  Primary accountabilities of this position may include the technical guidance to a team of engineers to perform all types of software testing / Development including architecture, Hardware Finalization , Automation, Troubleshooting and analysis to meet the customer requirements. In addition, the incumbent may be accountable for organizational initiations in developing the various technical solutions and making the showable use cases on various future applications. Firefighting of the determining engineering services / solutions strategy, plays an active part in planning the project , and work packages , Milestones, Project technical Estimations , activity split-up works with customers to determine needs, resolve problems.

Key responsibilities include planning for future technologies and developing the case studies with the existing people and technology; consciously establishing a culture that encourages innovation, partnering and collaborative relationships and a customer focus; developing partnerships with technology providers; and integrating products and services to meet customers' needs.

The incumbent needs to be an excellent communicator and begin developing as a strategic thinker; needs to be technically credible, keeping abreast of technology, changes while depending on staff for the technical depth and breadth. Incumbent needs a breadth of knowledge and experience including products, processes, design and evaluation, and organization vision, procedures, and policies. This role requires a long-range focus on business strategy.

Decisions made by the incumbent will affect not only own business vertical, but entire business. Those decisions will shape complex systems, multiple variants within service / solution, processes or factories and customers' perception of the company; could have significant impact on sales and cause evolutionary effect on technology.

This position faces ongoing change - increased competitive pressures, increasing engineering service complexity and ever-increasing customer demands. Significant challenges from managing new technology, managing the leadership in the organization, sourcing technical people, replacing expertise and growing technical experts can be expected. Position requires ever increasing skills in visioning, strategic planning and coaching and leading people. This role requires that the incumbent increases understanding of the business, the business aspects of technology and the customers' business and needs.

BACKGROUND / EXPERIENCE: Generally, requires an accredited engineering degree / diploma and excellent analytical skills. Incumbents have usually gained 20+ years of experience and have exhibited ability to work on increasingly more complex assignments. Skills in program management, strategic planning, and project planning and customer relations are needed. Excellent human relations and communications are necessary.

As part of this role, Technical specialist will be working with various technical engineers and technical Leads based on the project/Initiation needs (Both Development & Testing ).