Technical Delivery Manager, Software Solution Engineering (Java, Microservices)

HARMANs engineers and designers are creative purposeful and agile. As part of this team youll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day you will push the boundaries of creative design and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together youll discover that at HARMAN you can grow make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

Were a global multi-disciplinary team thats putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN Automotive we give you the keys to fast-track your career.

• Creating the next software platforms to drive the automotive industry
• Combine ingenuity in-depth research and a spirit of collaboration with design and engineering excellence
• Advance in-vehicle infotainment safety efficiency and enjoyment

About the Role

We are seeking a Technical Team Manager to join our Customer Delivery Group in India responsible for endtoend customer delivery workflow and release execution and technical leadership across the full development lifecycle.

Our software product solutions are among the most advanced in the automotive industry. This role plays a critical execution and customerfacing function ensuring delivery commitments are met while serving as the regional first line of Tier4 (T4) technical support assisting in urgent escalations and complex crosssystem issues.

The role is acting as the main point of contact for customer release status and maintaining continuous alignment with Customer Success TAM Architecture Product and other Engineering teams. Responsibilities include workflow and release management delivery planning and commitments T4 backlog ownership and knowledge sharing and facilitation across teams.

In addition the role provides technical guidance and consultancy to Solution Management and Product including cost estimates RFI/RFQ analysis and feasibility assessments. As a people leader the role is responsible for planning mentoring administration and resource allocation while continuously improving team capability and delivery effectiveness.

Your Team

Leads engineering team while have full responsibility for E2E delivery of our products.

What You Will Do

• Lead endtoend customer delivery across Developmentfull life cycle

• Act as Workflow Release Manager owning release planning execution readiness and delivery commitments

• Serve as the main point of contact for customer release status ensuring predictable and transparent E2E delivery

• Manage the Tier4 (T4)projectbacklog including prioritization execution and closure

• Be available for urgent Tier4 activities and critical escalations as the regional first line of support(in working hours)

• Write productionlevel code to deliver customer features improve core products andvalidatetechnical feasibility

• Investigate complex technical issues perform rootcause analysis and drive improvements in software quality

• Clarify customer requirements and translate them into actionable delivery plans for global teams

• Embrace and enhance new AI capabilities and ways to shorten our response time and development/testing efforts

• Represent the organization in customer technical workshops and onsite meetings whenrequired

• Own planning delivery commitments and resource allocation

• Mentor team members and continuously raise the teams technical maturity

• Drive knowledge sharing and facilitation across Development QA and Support

• Coordinate onboarding and technical training within the team and across regions

• Transfer knowledge through documentation reviews and technical sessions

• Establish and evolve automated testing environments

What You Need to be successful

• Education: B.E / higher education.

• 15 years of work experience inJavaprogramming
• 5 years of team management experience
• Should have rich experience in RESTful/micro services based product development
• Should possess sound experience & understanding of OOPS design patterns/concepts
• Should be proficient in Spring Spring boot Docker and Maven/Gradle
• AI enthusiast exploring and searching for latest development trends

• Hands-on experience withdevelopmenttools like:Bitbucket GitHub

• Hands-on experience in Linux
• Independent experienced in learning new environments and assembling POC quickly experienced in working under pressure and deadlines

• Independent and Self Motivated

• Business LevelEnglish skills (meeting reporting and collaboration)
• Experience & knowledge of DB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch
• Experience with Cloud Services like AWS/Azure/GCP

Bonus Points if You Have

• Experience in AI/ML driven development

• Hands on experience in C C Android / QNX GO and Rust
• Experience in SW development for the automotive industry with proven experience in ASPICE

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment.

• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL HARMAN Kardon AKG etc.)

• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.

• Competitive wellness benefits.

• Tuition Reimbursement.

• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria.

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.