High Salary Associate Director

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 30-50 cross functional 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