Design Office Director
2 months ago
You will provide direction, development, and pipeline growth for the controlled title engineers within Grid Automation.
You will provide technology leadership for the GA and will support over 500 engineers across the R&D team.
You will direct the technology roadmap and platform architecture definition, advance R&D competencies and best practices, and oversee design due diligence and risk management.
In addition, you will lead the GA Design Authority function that aligns product and solutions designs with the Strategy. #LI-ML2Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Creates and leads Technology innovation, Technology strategy & roadmaps
- Defines Product platform, solution architecture and strategy alignment with Business needs to maximize productivity, revenue and CM
- Articulates and translates Technology Strategy into Design Authority Guiderails to align product/platform design
- Oversees design rigor for quality and NPI execution
- Manages R&D competencies, Engineering practices, tools, and processes
- Enhances Global R&D and cross-functional team engagement and collaboration culture
More specifically
- Provides leadership as the Design Office Director for the Grid Automation business
- Lays out Grid Automation technology roadmaps, in alignment with the product roadmaps
- Articulates the technology strategy and translates it into Design Authority Guiderails to align product/platform design
- Leads the evolution of technology roadmaps
- Issues CTO Requirement Documents (CRD) for major NPI programs
- Conducts formal assessments of product designs for alignment with technology strategy and issues approvals or change orders
- Selects key technologies and components to be standardize on (CPUs, software libraries, open-source components, etc)
- Drives portfolio-wide capabilities and feature design for product line consistency (e.g., software licensing, UI/UX, interoperability)
- Stays connected with technology trends and industry evolution to drive solutions differentiation
- Maintains design authority oversight of product platforms & software architectures
- Collaborates closely with product management teams to ensure the technology roadmap aligns with product and business strategy
- Provides technical guidance of NPIs (New Products Introduction), including presiding over and approving technical review gates
- Identifies and mitigates technical business risks (cybersecurity, technology, standards)
- Leads the assessment of R&D team competencies and drive measures to address gaps to achieve business goals
- Leads the formulation and dissemination of lessons-learned and best practices across the R&D teams
- Utilizes experience and knowledge to help solve technical problems across Grid Automation products
- Promotes initiatives related to design quality and reliability
- Provides leadership, mentoring and pipeline development of Consulting and Principal Engineers
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor in Electronics Engineering Science or equivalent
- Minimum 15 additional years of experience in a technical product development capacity
- Minimum of 5 years experience as an Architect
- Able to interface effectively with all function and levels of a global organization
- Have legal authorization to work in Canada and be aware that any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a pre-employment verification.
Desired Characteristics
- Understanding of the power Grid Protection, Control and Automation domain
- Prior work experience developing industrial controls for power systems
- Broad technical experience and deep expertise in a specific engineering discipline
- Strong leadership, influencing and interpersonal skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills - ability to articulate and evangelize a vision, ability to negotiate
- Data driven, results oriented
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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