Senior Technical Architect

Role overview

Senior Technical Architect at HCLTech

Role Summary Own the System Software Group (SSG) layer sustenance — HAL abstraction and system services that bridge the kernel and application layers.

Pod 3 — SSG — Lead Pod / Track Pod 3 — SSG Role Title Lead — Security Software (TrustZone, Secure Boot & Crypto) 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the secure boot chain and TrustZone-based platform security sustenance — chain of trust, image signing, and verified boot.
• Maintain the Hardware Root of Trust (HRoT), including key provisioning, fusing, and certificate/lifecycle management.
• Sustain cryptographic subsystems — AES engines, TRNG (True Random Number Generator), and related crypto acceleration.
• Triage and resolve security-relevant defects — secure boot failures, TrustZone isolation issues, crypto/TRNG faults — across firmware and kernel layers.
• Support security certification/assessment activities and vulnerability triage.
• Own the security regression suite and mentor the pod's Senior Engineer.
• Must-Have Skills
• 8–10 years embedded platform security engineering (secure boot, TrustZone/TEE, cryptography).
• Secure boot / verified boot chain-of-trust implementation.
• TrustZone architecture and isolation enforcement.
• Applied cryptography — AES, TRNG, key management, HRoT/fusing.
• Security debugging across firmware and kernel layers.
• Good-to-Have Skills
• GlobalPlatform TEE APIs / OP-TEE Trusted Application development.
• Security certification exposure (FIPS 140-3, PSA Certified, SESIP or similar).
• Fuzzing, static analysis and secure SDLC tooling.
• HSM-backed manufacturing signing infrastructure experience.
• Skill Requirements Other Requirements

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [India]