Senior Technical Architect

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 Other Requirements