Technical Lead

Technical Lead - Steering & Brakes

At Tata Technologies, we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering, and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth, we are now recruiting a Technical Lead to strengthen our engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the planning, coordination, and delivery of Brakes and Steering Software (SW) for customer projects, ensuring agreed scope, timing, and quality targets are met.
• Analyse RFQ/TR requirements and translate them into clear, prioritised, and actionable backlog items for development teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional software development activities and align deliverables across engineering, validation, project, and customer teams.
• Monitor project milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues; define mitigation actions and escalate critical concerns in a timely manner.
• Drive the investigation and resolution of technical issues affecting software development, integration, validation, or delivery.
• Represent the software domain in technical and commercial discussions to clarify requirements, assumptions, interfaces, and delivery expectations.
• Lead internal development initiatives in alignment with the product roadmap and customer programme needs.
• Maintain effective working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Promote clear ownership, collaboration, accountability, and a strong customer focus throughout project execution.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 9–12 years of professional experience in the automotive industry, with substantial experience in braking, steering, chassis, or related vehicle-control systems.
• Proven experience with passenger-car software development lifecycles, project milestones, requirements management, integration, validation, and release processes.
• Strong knowledge of braking and steering system validation, including DPR/TR, test equipment, system interfaces, and applicable automotive standards.
• Hands-on experience with HIL testing using dSPACE tools such as ControlDesk, AutomationDesk, and VT System.
• Experience documenting test cases, executing tests, and managing test verdicts using SystemWeaver or Electra.
• Experience with automotive development, diagnostics, measurement, and calibration tools, including Vector tools, INCA, and MDA.
• Working knowledge of functional safety and automotive quality processes, including ISO 26262, ASPICE, FMEA/SFMEA, Technical Safety Concept (TSC), Technical Safety Requirements (TSR), FSR, degradation and safe-state analysis, DTC mapping, fault analysis, and system-level validation.
• Demonstrated experience in chassis software development, particularly steering and braking, covering component-, system-, and vehicle-level testing, legal requirements, and software-release documentation such as CRB/IRB.