Senior Project Manager

Job Description

- Job Function, Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead technology initiatives for strategizing and owning Industry 4.0 and related business practices, with relevant experience in Industry 4.0 & IIoT
- Overall responsibility of end-to-end project execution & delivery within planned schedule for multiple projects simultaneously
- Project requirements understanding, dissemination into individual tasks, effort estimation and planning.
- Upholding customer satisfaction through value-based delivery
- Interface with global customers for project status accounting, task planning and delivery
- Defining and managing daily tasks and responsibilities of the project team, with an ability to lead 10-15 team members spread across multiple projects
- Stakeholder management from cross-functional teams within organization and external vendors/partners
- Escalation management from customers or internal stakeholders
- Understand business pipeline through sales and senior management, define hiring plans and conduct interviews
- Manage compliance to Quality Management System (QMS), and participate in project audits by SEPG group
- Responsible for conducting annual appraisals, providing regular developmental feedback to team, and identifying skill gaps to plan internal and external training
- Foster an open work-culture to instill confidence in the team, and encourage diversity of perspectives and sharing of knowledge

- Area of expertise:

- Expertise in industrial projects with manufacturing applications, controls, and analytics, with good exposure to PLC, DCS and SCADA systems
- Expertise in working with industrial interfaces and protocols such as MODBUS, PROFIBUS, FIELDBUS, OPC UA
- Overall project management & delivery
- Risk management (risk identification, tracking, mitigation and contingency planning)
- Customer communication (US and Europe based customers)
- Strategic account management and long-term growth
- Embedded firmware architecture development for Industrial IoT (IIoT) domain
- Expertise in various processor and microcontroller architecture
- Expertise in bare metal, RTOS and device driver development
- Expertise in Linux Kernel programming, device driver development, multi-threaded applications
- Expertise in different distributions such as Yocto and openWRT
- Expertise in C and OOPS Programming languages, data structure, and design patterns in C++
- Expertise in bootloader (U-Boot) development for embedded systems
- Experience in wireless technologies such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, BLE, Threads, WiFi, and Sub-GHz
- Experience with debugging tools such as KGDB, GDB, Valgrind, and static code analyzers
- Experience in networking protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT, HTTP, GSM, GPRS
- Experience in serial communication interfaces such as RS-232, RS-485, I2C, SPI, MODBUS and CAN
- Experience in Embedded GUI Development, particularly with QT or similar frameworks, is advantageous

- Skills:
- Programming Languages: C, C++, and Python
- Hands-on BSP, board bring up development experience
- Linux kernel development with low-level driver experience, BSP, the board bring-up SDK development knowledge
- Write high-quality, efficient, extensible, and maintainable code in a fast-paced Agile environment
- Interfaces: PCIE, USB, I2C, SPI, MDIO, MQTT, Rest API
- Wireless: Z Wave/ZigBee/Matter/Thread/BLE/WIFI
- Hardware schematics review and PCB debugging
- Microcontroller/Microprocessors: 16/32-bit Debugging applications using debugging tools.
- Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics
- Debugging tools: like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope, JTAG, KGDB, JDB
- Expert in USB, AUDIO/VIDEO, RF protocols
- Cloud communication: AWS or Azure or customer cloud
- Build system: Yocto, OpenWRT, Makefiles etc
- Embedded GUI Development QT or similar
- Expertise in at least one technology - Wi-Fi, audio/video, display, camera
- Experienced with SCRUM-based project management tools such as JIRA, DOORS, Agile
- Embedded GUI Development QT or similar
- Working experience in security algorithms encryption and decryption
- Debugging Hardware and low-level firmware using schematics
- Debugging tools: like logic analyzer, digital oscilloscope
- Complete SDLC life cycle understanding
- Scrum master certifications in team management

- Educational Criteria:
- BE/ME/B.Tech/M.Tech Electronics / Electronics & Communications