Senior Technical Architect
About this role
Job Summary
Pod 10 — Integration/Image — Lead
Pod / Track Pod 10 — Integration/Image
Role Title Lead — System Integration & Release Image Engineering
Experience 8 – 10 years
Primary Location Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter
Work Model Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.
Role Summary
Own system integration and software image sustenance — build system, image packaging/release, and cross-pod integration validation before every sustenance release.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the build system (Yocto/OpenEmbedded) and image-packaging pipeline.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and Gerrit code-review integration across the release train, including build sanity checks.
• Maintain Yocto meta-layers/meta-targets and shared component libraries used across pods.
• Coordinate integration of all 10 pods' deliverables into a single release image.
• Manage release branching, versioning, and OTA image generation.
• Triage integration-level build and boot failures back to owning pods.
• Own release notes and image-level regression sign-off, and mentor the pod's Senior Engineers.
Must-Have Skills
• 8–10 years embedded build/release engineering.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded build systems.
• Image packaging and OTA tooling.
• Release and version management.
• Cross-team integration coordination.
• CI/CD pipeline tooling (Jenkins/Gerrit or equivalent) and Yocto meta-layer/meta-target maintenance.
Good-to-Have Skills
• OTA update system design (A/B partitioning, delta updates).
• Container/appliance packaging for edge devices.
• Release engineering across multi-pod dependency graphs.
• Component library management across a multi-pod Yocto meta-layer structure.
Key Responsibilities
Pod 10 — Integration/Image — Lead
Pod / Track Pod 10 — Integration/Image
Role Title Lead — System Integration & Release Image Engineering
Experience 8 – 10 years
Primary Location Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter
Work Model Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.
Role Summary
Own system integration and software image sustenance — build system, image packaging/release, and cross-pod integration validation before every sustenance release.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the build system (Yocto/OpenEmbedded) and image-packaging pipeline.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and Gerrit code-review integration across the release train, including build sanity checks.
• Maintain Yocto meta-layers/meta-targets and shared component libraries used across pods.
• Coordinate integration of all 10 pods' deliverables into a single release image.
• Manage release branching, versioning, and OTA image generation.
• Triage integration-level build and boot failures back to owning pods.
• Own release notes and image-level regression sign-off, and mentor the pod's Senior Engineers.
Must-Have Skills
• 8–10 years embedded build/release engineering.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded build systems.
• Image packaging and OTA tooling.
• Release and version management.
• Cross-team integration coordination.
• CI/CD pipeline tooling (Jenkins/Gerrit or equivalent) and Yocto meta-layer/meta-target maintenance.
Good-to-Have Skills
• OTA update system design (A/B partitioning, delta updates).
• Container/appliance packaging for edge devices.
• Release engineering across multi-pod dependency graphs.
• Component library management across a multi-pod Yocto meta-layer structure.
Skill Requirements
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