Design Office Director
4 days ago
Job Summary
The Design Office Director will report to the Grid Automation Core Technologies, Systems and Operations Leader. This role will provide direction, development, and pipeline growth for the controlled title engineers within Grid Automation. The successful candidate will provide technology leadership for the GA and support over 500 engineers across the R&D team.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and lead Technology innovation, Technology strategy & roadmaps to drive business growth and productivity.
- Define Product platform, solution architecture and strategy alignment with Business needs to maximize revenue and customer satisfaction.
- Articulate and translate Technology Strategy into Design Authority Guiderails to align product/platform design.
- Oversee design rigor for quality and NPI execution to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery.
- Manage R&D competencies, Engineering practices, tools, and processes to enhance global R&D and cross-functional team engagement and collaboration culture.
Additional Responsibilities
- Provide leadership as the Design Office Director for the Grid Automation business.
- Lay out Grid Automation technology roadmaps, in alignment with the product roadmaps.
- Articulate the technology strategy and translate it into Design Authority Guiderails to align product/platform design.
- Lead the evolution of technology roadmaps to drive business growth and innovation.
- Issue CTO Requirement Documents (CRD) for major NPI programs.
- Conduct formal assessments of product designs for alignment with technology strategy and issue approvals or change orders.
- Select key technologies and components to be standardized on (CPUs, software libraries, open-source components, etc).
- Drive portfolio-wide capabilities and feature design for product line consistency (e.g., software licensing, UI/UX, interoperability).
- Stay connected with technology trends and industry evolution to drive solutions differentiation.
- Maintain design authority oversight of product platforms & software architectures.
- Collaborate closely with product management teams to ensure the technology roadmap aligns with product and business strategy.
- Provide technical guidance of NPIs (New Products Introduction), including presiding over and approving technical review gates.
- Identify and mitigate technical business risks (cybersecurity, technology, standards).
- Lead the assessment of R&D team competencies and drive measures to address gaps to achieve business goals.
- Lead the formulation and dissemination of lessons-learned and best practices across the R&D teams.
- Utilize experience and knowledge to help solve technical problems across Grid Automation products.
- Promote initiatives related to design quality and reliability.
- Provide leadership, mentoring and pipeline development of Consulting and Principal Engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor in Electronics Engineering Science or equivalent.
- Minimum 15 additional years of experience in a technical product development capacity.
- Minimum of 5 years experience as an Architect.
- Able to interface effectively with all function and levels of a global organization.
- Have legal authorization to work in Canada.
Desired Characteristics
- Understanding of the power Grid Protection, Control and Automation domain.
- Prior work experience developing industrial controls for power systems.
- Broad technical experience and deep expertise in a specific engineering discipline.
- Strong leadership, influencing and interpersonal skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills - ability to articulate and evangelize a vision, ability to negotiate.
- Data-driven, results-oriented.
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