Principal Engineer

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS:

• Total 11+ years of experience.
• At least 6+ years of hands-on MES experience configuring, deploying and integrating at least one of the following top MES solutions such as: Siemens Opscenter, AVEVA MES, Apriso, SAP MII/DMC and others.
• Must have experience in creating digital products / software / digital platforms.
• Should have experience as a consultant in one or more of the following domains: manufacturing, light engineering industry, heavy engineering, automotive, chemical, food & beverages, consumer goods, agriculture.
• Must have experience in Business Solutioning , Manufacturing Execution Systems, Operational Technologies, Product Management and Requirements Analysis.
• Should demonstrate an ability to analyse shop-floor processes and translate them into MES and QMS workflows, KPIs, and production dashboards.
• Strong understanding of ISA-95, ISA-88, and manufacturing best practices.
• Should have knowledge of MES architecture, data modelling and database skills, integration with ERP and SCADA systems.
• Must have experience in supporting multi-plant rollouts of MES solutions
• Should have exposure to operational technologies (PLCs, SCADA, historians) and IT/OT integration.
• Should be fluent in agile delivery model with experience in working with any of the agile product management tool, preferably Azure DevOps.
• Experience as a product owner especially in creating and championing customer and product vision, identifying and documenting customer needs, managing the product backlog, prioritizing the requirements, and planning and creating roadmaps for MVP.
• Should have ability to create an understanding of customer business and customer value chain to identify the AS-IS process and digital gaps and create a TO-BE process.
• Should have experience in conducting customer workshops and ability to engage with CXO level stakeholders and clients to elicit their business requirements and convert them into potential new opportunities.
• Experience in creating data-driven insights from the implementation of IoT use cases will be an added advantage.
• Should have experience of creating responses to customer RFP and RFI proposals.
• Must demonstrate an ability to make and effectively communicate decisions. The candidate should know how to disagree, how to address opposition or rejection, how to navigate the conflicts in multi-stakeholder requirement and how to build consensus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with a global team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding the client’s business use cases and technical requirements and be able to convert them into technical design which elegantly meets the requirements.
• Mapping decisions with requirements and be able to translate the same to developers.
• Identifying different solutions and being able to narrow down the best option that meets the client’s requirements.
• Defining guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation.
• Reviewing architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience, NFRs, etc., and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed.
• Developing and designing the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and defining technologies, patterns, and frameworks to materialize it
• Understanding and relating technology integration scenarios and applying these learnings in projects
• Resolving issues that are raised during code/review, through exhaustive systematic analysis of the root cause, and being able to justify the decision taken.
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.