R&D Team Lead

Overview

Lead an R&D team of about 10 engineers (including contract engineers and interns) within ABB Motion's High Power Division in Bangalore, supporting them in meeting agreed R&D targets while managing technologies, platforms and Intellectual Property.

What you'll do

• Manage a group of 10 engineers, including a variable number of external contract engineers and interns.
• Guide, coach and mentor engineers on career, competence and soft skills.
• Structure and lead activities in the context of the scaled agile framework (SAFe).
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, always striving for quality and efficiency.
• Staff projects with competent people, ensuring the overall team workload fits the assigned projects.
• Drive resource and competence management globally within the software area.
• Foster a climate of innovation by motivating, guiding and empowering team members.
• Ensure effective exchange of knowledge to promote collaboration and develop new technological approaches and solutions.
• Safeguard quality assurance of all deliverables from the development team.
• Ensure timely, on-budget execution of projects and work packages, monitor progress and take corrective actions if necessary.
• Ensure the right product development processes and tools are adopted.
• Propose and execute improvement processes within the team.
• Collaborate with Local Business Management on customer requirements, customer challenges and local market business potential, and plan and execute improvements to customer satisfaction and business volumes.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering / Technology with 12-14 years of experience in desktop tools / embedded software development, project management and people management.
• Technical background in C#, .NET, WPF, VS, C++, Python platforms.
• Strong background in research and development practices and processes.
• Experience in international and cross-cultural collaboration and leadership.
• Project management skills, with proficiency in leading development teams or development labs.
• Strong team leader with skills in team development and a focus on results and accountability.

Nice to have

• Knowledge and experience in PLCs and industrial automation solutions/systems.
• Business, converters, motors and electrical machines domain knowledge.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India (High Power Division, Motion Business).
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Reports to: R&D Department Lead.