Senior Lead Engineer, System Engineering

Job description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.   Who are we?   Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!   In this role, you will:  • Should have in-depth understanding of system engineering to evaluate different solutions and choose the best path forward, ensuring that the team builds scalable and reliable systems. • Develop system-level and product-level requirements documents, as well as product-level design documents, such as Customer Requirements Specifications, Product Design Documents, and System Requirements Specifications. • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the TCOS and Dispatch product line, understand the relationship and interaction across components, and clearly explain and define system behaviour to the customer and development teams.  • Lead and contribute to future concepts and design enhancements for the TCOS products using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements.   • Translate customer needs/requirements, resolve specification issues, handle technical correspondence, provide periodic updates, ensure customer satisfaction, and negotiate/coordinate with cross-functional teams as appropriate.   • Triage incoming customer reported problems, quickly determine if the expected behaviour is not met, and define severity and priority. Actively look to reduce the investigation load from the team by performing the initial investigations until the reported system behaviour is understood.  • Demonstrate expert level skill in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity  • Engage frequently (80%) with the development team; facilitate discussions, provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation; contributes to design activities and decisions  • Provide accurate and timely status of Content plan and current execution status to Customer and leadership.  • Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure alignment between customer, product manager and engineering team  • Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape  • Provide technical input to customer-facing documentation such as user manuals, installation instructions, • Serve as the work content authority for TCOS Project scrum teams responsible for the team’s backlog, prioritization of the backlog, and represent the customer’s needs to the teams. Coordinate with the scrum team Release Engineers who own their team’s backlog.   Own the overall project backlog and continuously order and prioritize to ensure sprint planning readiness.  • Collaborate with the Program Managers to define the short-term roadmap for sprint backlogs and prepare capabilities/features for planning. Collaborate to decompose features into vertical slice user stories with SMART acceptance criteria and well-defined business needs. Frequently engage the team to provide clarification, story acceptance and refinement and communicate decisions to the development team.  •  Understand security and compliance requirements; establish seamless integration with Cyber Security and Compliance teams  Basic Qualifications:  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)  • A minimum of 8 years of professional experience in System Engineer or equivalent Role    Eligibility Requirements: (Country Specific)  • Must be willing to work out of an office located in Bangalore, IN  Desired Characteristics:   • Hands-on experience in decomposing requirements into robust Agile based Features and User Stories, including strong acceptance criteria and requirement traceability. Able to translate unstructured or ambiguous work requests into actionable user stories.  • Ability to understand the technology stack and its impact on the final product. Capable of efficiently conducting customer and stakeholder interv