Head of Section of Solutions Engineering

DNV Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

DNV Group in Chennai, India, seeks Head of Section - Solutions Engineering to lead business and customer-driven platform configurations across low-code, hybrid, and API-enabled environments. You will partner with Product leadership, Data & AI, and global teams to translate requirements into reliable, production-ready configurations and set standards for quality, stability, and repeatability.

The role focuses on scalable practices, AI-assisted configuration, and knowledge transfer between

Responsibilities

• Lead solution engineering across customer and internal platform implementation programs, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery of configured platform solutions.
• Translate requirements into scalable, maintainable, and production-ready platform configurations.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and delivery discipline across implementation activities.
• Ensure program-specific configurations are validated through structured User Acceptance Testing and implementation quality reviews.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted methods for requirements analysis, workflow configuration, test case generation, documentation, and implementation reuse across low-code and hybrid development environments.
• Define how solution engineering teams use AI-enabled tools to improve speed, consistency, and documentation quality.
• Ensure strong implementation fundamentals, configuration quality, and peer review practices remain central alongside AI acceleration.
• Partner with engineering teams to turn mature AI capabilities into reusable implementation patterns.
• Oversee configuration patterns, business rules, workflows, data loads, and platform setup needed to support customer use cases.
• Collaborate across Product, engineering teams, advisory regions, and digital teams to support interoperability across core systems.
• Promote reusable implementation patterns, templates, prompts, and configuration standards.
• Guide the appropriate balance between customer‑specific configuration and requests that require platform enhancement.
• Lead and evolve a solution engineering team with clear roles, implementation standards, and delivery expectations.
• Build, develop, and retain high‑performing implementation and platform configuration talent.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.
• Ensure implementations follow platform governance, security, data handling, and access control standards.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, configuration decisions, validation evidence, and production release readiness.
• Establish consistent implementation review practices to reduce delivery risk and improve repeatability across programs.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Global Shared Services teams to ensure implementation practices align with enterprise standards.

Job description

The Head of Section - Solutions Engineering is responsible for leading the solutions engineering function that translates business, customer, and subject matter expert needs into scalable platform implementations within Digital & Transformation. This includes leading configuration-first delivery across low-code, hybrid, and API-enabled platform environments while ensuring implementation quality, repeatability, and production readiness.

This role sits within the Digital & Transformation organization, helping to advance how DNV performs Due Diligence, Verification & Assurance, and Renewables Certification work across Energy Systems.

Working in close partnership with Product leadership, Data & AI Engineering, Application Engineering, and global digital teams, this role translates customer requirements into reliable, production-ready platform configurations. The Head of Section - Solution Engineering sets clear standards for implementation quality, stability, validation, and reusable configuration patterns across low-code and hybrid development environments.

This role leads a team focused on configuring the platform for customer-specific and business-specific use cases using existing platform capabilities wherever possible. When a requirement cannot be met through configuration, the role ensures it is clearly assessed, documented, and translated into a product or engineering backlog item for prioritization, including the business context, implementation impact, and recommended path forward.

The Head of Section - Solutions Engineering plays a key role in scaling repeatable implementation practices, improving delivery velocity through AI-assisted configuration methods, and strengthening knowledge transfer between implementation and engineering teams.

**This role is based at our DNV office in Chennai, India. Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.**

Key Responsibilities

Solution Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Lead solution engineering across customer and internal platform implementation programs, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery of configured platform solutions.
• Translate requirements into scalable, maintainable, and production-ready platform configurations.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability, and delivery discipline across implementation activities.
• Ensure program-specific configurations are validated through structured User Acceptance Testing and implementation quality reviews.

Modern Development & AI-Enabled Configuration

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted methods for requirements analysis, workflow configuration, test case generation, documentation, and implementation reuse across low-code and hybrid development environments.
• Define how solution engineering teams use AI-enabled tools to improve speed, consistency, and documentation quality.
• Ensure strong implementation fundamentals, configuration quality, and peer review practices remain central alongside AI acceleration.
• Partner with engineering teams to turn mature AI capabilities into reusable implementation patterns.

Platform Configuration & Interoperability

• Oversee configuration patterns, business rules, workflows, data loads, and platform setup needed to support customer use cases.
• Collaborate across Product, engineering teams, advisory regions, and digital teams to support interoperability across core systems.
• Promote reusable implementation patterns, templates, prompts, and configuration standards.
• Guide the appropriate balance between customer‑specific configuration and requests that require platform enhancement.

Organization & Capability Development

• Lead and evolve a solution engineering team with clear roles, implementation standards, and delivery expectations.
• Build, develop, and retain high‑performing implementation and platform configuration talent.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.

Implementation Governance, Quality & Security

• Ensure implementations follow platform governance, security, data handling, and access control standards.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, configuration decisions, validation evidence, and production release readiness.
• Establish consistent implementation review practices to reduce delivery risk and improve repeatability across programs.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Global Shared Services teams to ensure implementation practices align with enterprise standards.