IPP Software/Firmware Engineering Team Lead

Overview

Lead the Intelligent Packaged Power (IPP) software and firmware engineering resources based in Pune, covering the LVMCC Software Engineering Team and MVB Firmware Engineering Team. Combine people leadership, technical direction, and execution leadership to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality embedded firmware and industrial software solutions.

What you'll do

• Lead the Pune-based IPP software and firmware engineering teams, creating clear priorities, engagement, accountability, and understanding of IPP goals.
• Provide daily leadership for the LVMCC Software Engineering Team and MVB Firmware Engineering Team, balancing people leadership with hands-on technical guidance and delivery ownership.
• Coach engineers in technical capability, career development, and professional growth while building a culture of inclusion, learning, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Partner with global engineering leaders and product team members to translate product roadmaps and customer needs into executable software and firmware plans, staffing priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Support planning and execution, remove organisational impediments, manage cross-team dependencies, and lead predictable delivery and continuous improvement.
• Promote disciplined engineering practices across architecture, requirements, design, coding, peer review, configuration management, verification, validation, release, and lifecycle support.
• Champion quality, functional safety, product security, DevOps, automated testing, and CI/CD practices appropriate for industrial software and embedded firmware development.
• Coordinate across distributed teams, including hardware, systems, test, quality, cybersecurity, product management, and manufacturing engineering.
• Monitor project health, capacity, technical risks, defects, and delivery performance; communicate clear status, decisions, trade-offs, and escalations to stakeholders.
• Support hiring, onboarding, resource planning, succession planning, and capability development for the Pune SW/FW organization.
• Guide reuse, common architectures, tools, and engineering methods across LVMCC and MVB while respecting product-specific technical and regulatory requirements.
• Foster customer-focused innovation and identify opportunities to improve product value, engineering efficiency, maintainability, and speed to market.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Electronic & Communication, Embedded Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant software or firmware engineering experience.
• At least 2 years in a team leadership, people leadership, technical leadership, or engineering management role.
• Experience leading, coaching, software and/or firmware engineers in a product development environment.
• Experience delivering industrial software, embedded firmware, controls, automation, power electronics, motor control, or other complex engineered products.
• Working knowledge of modern software and firmware development lifecycles, requirements management, architecture, coding practices, testing, defect management, and release processes.
• Experience working in Agile development environments with product owners and cross-functional engineering stakeholders.
• Legal authorization to work in India.

Nice to have

• Master's degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
• Experience leading both application software and embedded firmware teams.
• Knowledge of low-voltage motor control centers, medium-voltage products, drives, motor control, power distribution, or industrial automation systems.
• Experience with Rockwell Automation platforms, IntelliCENTER solutions, FactoryTalk software, Logix-based systems, or connected industrial products.
• Experience with embedded C/C++, real-time operating systems, industrial communications, desktop or web application development, and software integration.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated build and test environments, source control, static analysis, and engineering metrics.
• Knowledge of product cybersecurity, secure development lifecycle practices, functional safety, or relevant industrial standards.
• Experience managing external partners, contractors, or globally distributed development teams.
• Agile, project management, or engineering leadership certification.

Details

• Location: Pune, Hinjewadi, India.
• Work schedule: Hybrid.
• Employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.
• Work in partnership with the designated Scrum Masters and collaborate with global teams, including engineering, product management, quality, cybersecurity, test, and operations teams.
• Report to the Global Engineering Director – IPP.