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You will guide the development, maintenance, quality, and operation of strategic digital service solutions focused on asset reliability, predictive analytics, digital twins, and lifecycle intelligence. The role combines people leadership, delivery execution, technical coordination, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with product owners, solution architects, quality leaders, operations, and global technology leadership. This is an opportunity to shape scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while developing engineering talent and strengthening delivery excellence in a global environment.\nHow you’ll make an impact:\nLead and develop the India Development Center team delivering digital service solutions.\nRecruit, coach, mentor, and retain talent while building capabilities and succession plans.\nEnsure predictable execution of roadmap commitments across development, testing, release, maintenance, and operations.\nManage delivery risks, dependencies, priorities, resources, and stakeholder expectations.\nProvide technical direction and maintain alignment with architecture, quality, security, and operational requirements.\nPromote engineering best practices, cloud-native development, DevOps, automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.\nEnsure solution maintainability, reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness across the lifecycle.\nDrive performance through meaningful indicators, transparent reporting, and continuous improvement.\nSupport the evolution of artificial intelligence, analytics, reliability, and digital twin capabilities.\nResponsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. Uphold Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity by taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.\nYour background:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.\nAt least 8 years of experience in software engineering, digital products, or cloud solution delivery, including at least 3 years leading teams.\nStrong understanding of research and development processes, software engineering practices, and continuous improvement methods.\nExperience working in Agile, DevOps, and continuous integration and continuous delivery environments.\nExperience with Microsoft Azure, cloud-native architectures, digital product lifecycles, software development, and deployment.\nKnowledge of cybersecurity, software quality, verification, validation, and lifecycle governance.\nExperience with digital twins, asset reliability, asset management, industrial Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, analytics, or data engineering.\nStrong people leadership, coaching, stakeholder management, communication, analytical thinking, customer focus, and ability to balance strategy with operational execution.\nMore about us\nYou will collaborate across functions and regions and contribute to the long-term evolution of Digital Service Solutions. The position offers broad exposure to product, architecture, quality, operations, and global technology leadership while building a high-performing team and advancing strategic digital platforms.\nAccessibility and reasonable accommodation\nQualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing ageneral inquiry formon our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.\n\nThis is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response.\n\nUse of Al and automated tools in recruitment\nAs part of our recruitment process, Hitachi Energy uses digital and automated tools, including Al-supported solutions, to assist with activities such as application screening, job matching, and interview scheduling. These tools are designed to support our recruiters and do not replace human decision-making. 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