System Engineering, Principal Technical Expert

Type of contract: Full-time permanent contract

Location: Bangalore

The company

Schneider Electric leads the digital transformation of energy management and automation in residential, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries. Present in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is the undisputed leader in electrical management - medium voltage, low voltage, secure energy, and automation systems. We provide integrated efficiency solutions that combine energy management, automation, and software. Our ecosystem allows us to collaborate on our open platform with a broad community of partners, integrators, and developers to provide our customers with both real-time control and operational efficiencies. At Schneider Electric, we believe that our people and partners make the difference. They enable us to engage ever further in innovation, diversity, and sustainable development. Thus, we respond every day to the needs of everyone, everywhere, and at any time, to enrich life.

• Leadership: Lead engineering project teams in developing new offers or evolving existing ones.
• Architecture & Design: Facilitate and drive architecture and design definition and implementation. Ensure alignment with Marketing requirements and stakeholder needs (service, manufacturing, quality, reliability, sustaining engineering).
• Design Team Coordination: Coordinate and drive design decisions with the project team and key stakeholders, maintaining customer value.
• Risk Management: Analyze, anticipate, quantify, and mitigate risks (technical, schedule, manufacturability, application). Maintain a risk register and follow mitigation plans.
• Testing: Accountable for the creation of a test plan for product platform verification and validation.
• Planning & Monitoring: Create work breakdowns, direct packages to design teams, and monitor activities to meet program goals. Establish program plans and budgets, including resource projections. Provide performance feedback to team managers.
• Communication: Rephrase and summarize technical explanations for a broad audience.
• Accountability: Ensure product performance, robustness, and quality. Contribute to cost evaluation and achievement of cost targets.
• Manufacturing Launch: Prepare product manufacturing launch with industrialization teams.
• Customer Focus: Build good relationships and resolve conflicts effectively.

• Benchmark new methodologies and tools.
• Capitalize on know-how through regular lessons learned on projects.

• Fulfills technical missions, with autonomy to propose/develop complex solutions in a technical domain. May have hierarchical or functional responsibilities.
• May provide mentoring, instructions/assistance, helps establish internal procedures and best practices. Work is given through general guidelines. Within a Systems project - in a moderate context of complexity also in Agile context.
• Contributes to:
• Writing and Managing System requirements
• Contributes to systems architecture and maintaining it balanced between technological constraints, stakeholder needs and business constraints.
• Defining scope of each sub-part of the system - whether product or component
• Supporting collaboration between the sub-team's part of the systems project
• Defining and ensuring project data configuration management
• Managing requirements and defect change requests.
• Experience in R&D is essential.
• Strong knowledge of industrial product development or related fields.
• Lean/Agile mindset is a must.
• Ability to work in multicultural and multinational teams.
• Analytical thinking, flexibility, independence, and resilience.
• Experience in Variable Speed Drives and System Engineering.
• Previous experience with development cycles is desirable.

• English proficiency is mandatory; French is a plus.
• Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree is required.
• At least 10 years of R&D experience.
• Experience as an Engineering Project Manager or equivalent is a plus.