Portfolio & roadmap: Own the global engineering tools portfolio across Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Testing and Simulation, including standardization, upgrades and lifecycle planning.
Team & capacity management: Lead Engineering Tool Administrators and coordinate workload across internal teams and external contractors in India.
Licensing & infrastructure: Manage software licenses, access and utilization while partnering with IT on servers, cloud environments, databases, security, backups and connectivity.
User support & service management: Oversee Jira requests and incidents, ensuring effective prioritization, escalation and resolution, supported by dashboards and service reporting.
Supplier & contract management: Manage software vendors, support partners, renewals, contract and license expirations, and technical escalations.
Cross-functional collaboration & continuity: Partner with Digital Engineering & PLM, Engineering Process & ASPICE, engineering disciplines and IT to support the Digital Thread strategy, while acting as the escalation point for complex tooling and service-continuity issues.
Education, Experience and Knowledge
Education & experience: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science or a related field, with experience managing engineering applications or multidisciplinary tool portfolios.
Engineering tools expertise: Broad understanding of Software, ECAD, MCAD, Systems Engineering, Simulation and Testing tools.
Licensing & infrastructure: Hands-on experience with software licensing, license servers, Windows Server, cloud/virtual environments, databases, access management and enterprise integrations.
Service & supplier management: Experience with Jira ticketing, user support, software suppliers, contract renewals, license tracking and support agreements.
Leadership & decision-making: Strong global team and workload management skills, with the ability to balance engineering needs, capability, risk, continuity and cost.
Industry experience & mobility: Automotive or regulated product-development experience is preferred, ideally with exposure to ASPICE, Functional Safety, Product Cybersecurity or configuration/change management; willingness to travel globally up to 10%.
Preferred tools and technology exposure
Experience with some of the following is an advantage; broad portfolio knowledge is more important than expertise in every tool:
Siemens Teamcenter, Polarion, NX, Xpedition and HyperLynx; ANSYS applications.
Atlassian Jira Service Management, Jira dashboards, Confluence and Bitbucket; GitHub and CI/CD toolchains.
IBM DOORS, Capella or comparable systems-engineering solutions.
OpenLM, FlexNet/FlexLM, RLM or comparable license-management technologies.
Engineering application servers, supplier portals, identity/access integration and application monitoring.
