Project Design Lead

The Product Architect plays a coordination role on a product development, on top of his technical missions.

He/she belongs to the technical team, but the role is transversal across the squads or teams.

He/she owns, in the technical team, the global knowledge of the product, customer experience, applications, standards, supply chain, etc.

On the technical side, he/she is managing the global compliance of the product to the marketing specifications standards.

Job Responsibilities :

Starting from PP Strategy and Hubs Strategy, the PP Product Architect is in charge to propose innovative architectures for products to:

Manages the global technical specification at product level and has the responsibility to ensure the adequacy between the needs and technical constraints, along project life

Bring advantage and differentiation versus competition

Respond to customer use cases and pain points.

Global knowledge of standards, or is at least able to activate experts networks when needed and ability to define future standards evolution.

Guaranty product integration and system compatibility (installation, electric, digital).

Maximize re-use and define product and system invariants; ensures the technical consistency of the design inside the project, but also with companion projects (platforms, standardized components, etc)

Participates in technical reviews inside the different squads to ensure adequacy of decisions with global product needs

Propose the best optimized architecture in terms of cost and performance.

Work closely with Strategic and League Marketing to analyze business impact.

Participate actively to PP Architecture Community of Practice.

Lead competition, technology, and patent watch.

In pre-development, development, and continuous engineering, PP Product Architect is in charge to ensure that product and system architectures are respected to guaranty all product and system functions.

Qualification

Professional Experience

Master degree or equivalent by experience.

+10 years of projects development experience.

+10 years of experience in EM products and ideally PP products.

Good social skills and empathy with a passion and drive for innovation.

Experience in coaching and mentoring, and successfully building and leading teams in a matrix environment.

Experience with complex technical projects in an Agile environment.

Senior technology leadership experience.

International exposure / experience - proven ability to lead in a matrix environment.

Soft Skills

Strong leadership capability to inspire, motivate and lead.

Strategic mindset.

Urgency, Speed and Quality.

Analytical and synthesis mindset: organized, time bounded, sensitive on cost and quality.

Transformation and change management skills.

Ability to build strong interactions with stakeholders / Strong ability to work in a matrix organization.

Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.

Operational mindset.

Autonomy.

BE/Btech from Electrical or Mechanical Engineering background having min 10 years relevant experience.