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VW is a German multinational automotive manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. VW is one of the world’s largest automaker by sales. VW sold 10.9 million vehicles in 2019. The group comprises of 12 brands from seven European Countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Bentley, Ducati (motorcycles), Skoda, SEAT, Scania, MAN and Volkswagen commercial vehicles.\nAbout CARIAD (Car, I Am Digital)\nThe automotive industry is in disruption. As a company, CARIAD is playing a part in multiple large trends at the same time: electrification, automation, and digitalization. The new name builds on changing customer needs. Automotive customers are demanding more comfort, more safety, more sustainability, and more connectivity. With its software platforms and digital features, CARIAD is developing solutions and products that will turn the car into a smart companion to accompany customers into the future with continuous updates and new digital features, even years later. The new company name reflects this zeitgeist: ‘Car, I Am Digital’. The brand profile can be found on its new website https://cariad.technology.\nCurrently, around 4,000 employees are working at CARIAD on the digital transformation of the car. CARIAD is working intensively on the software and technology platform for Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The first vehicles based on PPE will be the electric Porsche Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron. At the core of CARIAD is the development of the unified and scalable software and technology platform E³ 2.0 for all Group brands. E³ stands for ‘end to end electronics architecture’. The new software and technology platform is built from scratch and will be used first at the end of 2024 in Artemis, the lighthouse project of Audi. As of 2026, E³ 2.0 is due to be scaled by the Volkswagen brand with Trinity in the volume segment.\nAbout our Group\nCARIAD COE (Centre of Excellence) is setup in Bangalore, India working exclusively with CARIAD and associated VW groups with the focus on development of ‘VW.OS”. The areas of work involve development of platform components such as firmware, boot loaders, AUTOSAR, Linux/QNX BSP, Service oriented architecture-based middleware components.\nJob Description:\nJob Title: Configuration Manager\nExperience: 7 to 10 years\nGrade: A4/ B3\nTeam: COSMOS\nNo of positions: 1\nJob Overview:\nWe are looking for a highly motivated Configuration manager to lead and govern Configuration management activities for the COSMOS Project. The Configuration Manager is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving Configuration Management (CM) practices across products, projects, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs). The role ensures the integrity, traceability, reproducibility, and auditability of all configuration items throughout the software development and release lifecycle.\nThe Configuration Manager establishes CM strategies, manages baselines, controls configuration changes, ensures compliance with organizational and Automotive SPICE requirements, and works closely with Development, QA, DevOps, Release Engineering, Architecture, and Quality teams to maintain consistent and controlled delivery processes. This role is critical in ensuring end-to-end traceability from change requests through releases and supporting compliance, audit readiness, and long-term product maintenance.\nResponsibilities:\nundefined\nDefine and maintain Configuration Management Plans (CMPs) for projects and ARTs.\nEstablish CM strategy, scope, governance model, operating cadence, and audit schedules.\nDefine configuration item taxonomy, naming conventions, versioning standards, and approval workflows.\nEnsure CM activities align with release management and PI planning cycles.\nundefined\nIdentify, classify, and maintain configuration items including software, documentation, test assets, build configurations, environment templates, release artifacts, and compliance evidence.\nMaintain accurate and accessible CI registers and ownership information.\nConduct periodic reviews to ensure completeness and accuracy of configuration records.\nundefined\nOwn the branching strategy (mainline, release branches, hotfix) in line with release cadence and rollback needs.\nEnforce tagging standards (signedtags where required), semantic/agreed versioning, and provenance metadata (commit/build/time).\nundefined\nEstablish baseline types, approval criteria, and governance checkpoints.\nCoordinate creation, review, approval, and maintenance of design, test, code, and release baselines.\nMaintain baseline registers and ensure controlled evolution of baselined artifacts.\nundefined\nEnsure build pipelines generate traceable and reproducible software artifacts.\nGovern artifact repository structure, retention policies, immutability, and archival mechanisms.\nConduct rebuild verification activities to validate release reproducibility.\nManage SBOMs, checksums, and software integrity controls where applicable.\nundefined\nIntegrate Configuration Management processes with Change Request and defect management workflows.\nEnsure all configuration changes are traceable to approved requests.\nGovern runtime parameters, feature flags, configuration files, and environment-specific settings.\nSupport compliance with Automotive SPICE SUP.10 requirements.\nundefined\nMaintain end-to-end configuration traceability covering:Change Requests\nDefects\nCommits\nBuilds\nArtifacts\nEnvironment Configurations\nRelease Baselines\nCompliance Evidence\n\nCreate CM dashboards, metrics, reports, and compliance status updates.\nIdentify risks, gaps, and corrective actions.\nundefined\nDefine and monitor backup and recovery strategies for repositories and artifact stores.\nEnsure long-term retention and preservation of release evidence and baselines.\nSupport legal, regulatory, and organizational archival requirements.\nundefined\nCollaborate with Release Engineering during release preparation and deployment activities.\nValidate completeness and traceability of release evidence packages.\nEnsure successful repository synchronization with external stakeholders and customer organizations.\nSupport release reviews such as SRR and RCC.\nundefined\nSupport internal and external audits, assessments, and Automotive SPICE evaluations.\nAddress audit findings through corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).\nDrive automation, standardization, and process improvements to enhance CM effectiveness.\nImprove documentation quality and reduce operational inefficiencies.\nundefined Required Skills: 7+ years of experience in project management Configuration Management. Strong knowledge of Configuration Management principles: Configuration Planning Configuration Identification Configuration Control Configuration Status Accounting Configuration Audits Expertise in baseline management and configuration governance. Understanding of release management and change control processes. Experience in Automotive SPICE, particularly SUP.10 and related support processes. Strong understanding of end-to-end traceability requirements. Advanced Git expertise: Branching strategies Tagging standards Protected branches Cherry-pick and revert practices Signed tags CI/CD platforms: Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Pipeline governance Artifact repository management and software provenance practices. Jira (DevStack/VWIF) administration and reporting. Confluence documentation and template management. Experience with: SBOM generation tools (e.g., CycloneDX) Software integrity verification Secret scanning and security compliance tooling Knowledge of Java-based service ecosystems. Familiarity with Maven and Gradle build systems. Understanding of dependency and version management. Experience managing environment configurations, feature flags, and secret stores. Basic understanding of observability concepts including logs, metrics, and health monitoring. Strong analytical and detail-oriented mindset. Excellent organizational and documentation skills. Ability to work effectively across development, QA, architecture, release, and quality teams. Strong stakeholder management and facilitation capabilities. Ability to make sound decisions during release freezes, hotfix scenarios, and critical production situations. 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