Principal Engineer

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.