Principal Data Scientist

Role Summary:

The Technical Director will lead platform evolution, feature migration, horizontal scalability, and customer adaptations, while also acting as a strategic enabler for innovation, research, and talent development.

The role blends technical depth, product vision, and leadership to balance current commitments and future readiness.

Responsibilities

A. Strategic Responsibilities Growth, Vision & Innovation:

- Act as a growth enabler with the Head of Department through well-designed POCs.

- Anticipate technological shifts and drive early prototypes to ensure future readiness.

- Envision platform and product capabilities aligned with long-term strategy.

Research, Talent & Funding:

- Mentor and develop Technical Architects and Product Owners.

- Shape university and research collaborations aligned with platform strategy.

- Front-end with stakeholders to support funding and investment decisions for new problem areas.

B. Operational Responsibilities Platform & Architecture:

- Lead rapid feature migration and platform evolution.

- Architect horizontally scalable, multi-tenant systems.

- Define reference architectures and ensure technical governance.

Customer Enablement & Delivery:

- Drive customer adaptations across TL, TSR, and MAV.

- Enable platform localization and fast POC deployments.

- Ensure predictable delivery of current customer and platform commitments.

Dual Focus Execution:

- Balance delivery excellence today with building future technologies in parallel.

Key Skills & Competencies

- Platform engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures

- Strategic thinking with strong execution ownership

- Stakeholder leadership, mentoring, and innovation mindset

Qualifications

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering or Computer Science

- Experience with ADAS (Automotive domain)

- 15+ years of experience with 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles

- Experience with platform products or large-scale systems Success Metrics

- Effective positioning of the team through strategic POCs

- Improved platform scalability and reuse

- Faster customer onboarding and POC readiness

- Strong pipeline of future technical leaders

- Visible progress toward future-ready technologies Role Essence Deliver today with excellence while building the technology, talent, and vision for tomorrow.

Educational Qualifications

BE /BTech, ME, MTech