R&D Team Lead, Service

Hitachi Energy; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy’s India Development Centre seeks a Service Development Team Lead to guide the design, maintenance, and operation of digital service solutions focused on asset reliability and predictive analytics.

The role combines people leadership with delivery execution, requiring coordination with product owners, solution architects, and global leaders to drive scalable, secure services and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or cloud delivery, with 3+ years leading teams.
• Strong Agile, DevOps, CI/CD experience.
• Experience with Azure, digital twins, analytics, or data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the India Development Center team delivering digital service solutions.
• Ensure predictable execution of roadmap commitments across dev, testing, release, maintenance, and operations.
• Provide technical direction and maintain alignment with architecture, security, and operations.
• Promote engineering best practices, cloud-native development, DevOps, automation, CI/CD.
• Drive performance with metrics and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Cloud architecture

Azure

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelors/Master's in CS/SE/IT

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job title: Service Development Team LeadThe opportunity:

We are looking for a Service Development Team Lead in the India Development Centre. You will guide the development, maintenance, quality, and operation of strategic digital service solutions focused on asset reliability, predictive analytics, digital twins, and lifecycle intelligence. The role combines people leadership, delivery execution, technical coordination, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with product owners, solution architects, quality leaders, operations, and global technology leadership. This is an opportunity to shape scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while developing engineering talent and strengthening delivery excellence in a global environment.

How youll make an impact:

• Lead and develop the India Development Center team delivering digital service solutions.
• Recruit, coach, mentor, and retain talent while building capabilities and succession plans.
• Ensure predictable execution of roadmap commitments across development, testing, release, maintenance, and operations.
• Manage delivery risks, dependencies, priorities, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
• Provide technical direction and maintain alignment with architecture, quality, security, and operational requirements.
• Promote engineering best practices, cloud-native development, DevOps, automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Ensure solution maintainability, reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness across the lifecycle.
• Drive performance through meaningful indicators, transparent reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Support the evolution of artificial intelligence, analytics, reliability, and digital twin capabilities.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. Uphold Hitachi Energys core values of safety and integrity by taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, digital products, or cloud solution delivery, including at least 3 years leading teams.
• Strong understanding of research and development processes, software engineering practices, and continuous improvement methods.
• Experience working in Agile, DevOps, and continuous integration and continuous delivery environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, cloud-native architectures, digital product lifecycles, software development, and deployment.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity, software quality, verification, validation, and lifecycle governance.
• Experience with digital twins, asset reliability, asset management, industrial Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, analytics, or data engineering.
• Strong people leadership, coaching, stakeholder management, communication, analytical thinking, customer focus and ability to balance strategy with operational execution.

More about us

You will collaborate across functions and regions and contribute to the long-term evolution of Digital Service Solutions. The position offers broad exposure to product, architecture, quality, operations, and global technology leadership while building a high-performing team and advancing strategic digital platforms.