R&D Team Lead, Service

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We are looking for a Service Development Team Lead in the India Development Centre. You will guide the development maintenance quality and operation of strategic digital service solutions focused on asset reliability predictive analytics digital twins and lifecycle intelligence. The role combines people leadership delivery execution technical coordination and continuous improvement. You will work closely with product owners solution architects quality leaders operations and global technology leadership. This is an opportunity to shape scalable secure and reliable solutions while developing engineering talent and strengthening delivery excellence in a global environment.

• Lead and develop the India Development Center team delivering digital service solutions.
• Recruit coach mentor and retain talent while building capabilities and succession plans.
• Ensure predictable execution of roadmap commitments across development testing release maintenance and operations.
• Manage delivery risks dependencies priorities resources and stakeholder expectations.
• Provide technical direction and maintain alignment with architecture quality security and operational requirements.
• Promote engineering best practices cloud-native development DevOps automation continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Ensure solution maintainability reliability scalability observability and operational readiness across the lifecycle.
• Drive performance through meaningful indicators transparent reporting and continuous improvement.
• Support the evolution of artificial intelligence analytics reliability and digital twin capabilities.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations procedures and guidelines. Uphold Hitachi Energys core values of safety and integrity by taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology Data Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering digital products or cloud solution delivery including at least 3 years leading teams.
• Strong understanding of research and development processes software engineering practices and continuous improvement methods.
• Experience working in Agile DevOps and continuous integration and continuous delivery environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud-native architectures digital product lifecycles software development and deployment.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity software quality verification validation and lifecycle governance.
• Experience with digital twins asset reliability asset management industrial Internet of Things artificial intelligence analytics or data engineering.
• Strong people leadership coaching stakeholder management communication analytical thinking customer focus and ability to balance strategy with operational execution.

You will collaborate across functions and regions and contribute to the long-term evolution of Digital Service Solutions. The position offers broad exposure to product architecture quality operations and global technology leadership while building a high-performing team and advancing strategic digital platforms.

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