Section Head - CMB Architecture

TVS Motor Company; Krishnagiri District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TVS Motor Company seeks an exceptional leader to own the vehicle vision and technical direction for 3W and 4W platforms from the Centre of Competence. You will drive architecture, system integration, and platform roadmaps for ICE and EV, ensuring safe, reliable, and cost-effective products across the lifecycle.

The role demands 20+ years in automotive product development with proven ownership of full vehicle programs, strong governance, and executive stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of automotive product development experience with vehicle-level leadership for 3W/4W platforms.
• Ownership of at least one complete vehicle program from concept to launch and field stabilization.
• Experience across EV and/or ICE architectures, multi-CoC integration, validation and industrialization preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and own vehicle vision, value proposition, and technical direction for 3W/4W platforms.
• Lead vehicle architecture, platform strategy, packaging, and technology roadmaps for ICE, EV, and future mobility solutions.
• Drive end-to-end system integration across Engineering CoCs and align vehicle-level objectives and interfaces.
• Establish and govern targets for performance, efficiency, quality, safety, reliability, weight, cost, and customer experience.
• Lead technical reviews, gateway approvals, configuration management, and engineering change control.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, homologation, functional safety, cybersecurity, and environmental requirements.
• Approve verification, validation, sign-off, and launch readiness plans.
• Drive value engineering, localization, and manufacturability with suppliers and manufacturing teams.
• Monitor field performance, warranty trends, and customer feedback for continuous improvements.
• Build and mentor engineering teams, develop capabilities, and drive succession planning.
• Manage engineering budgets, resources, and capability investments to support growth.
• Serve as primary technical authority for CMB programs and advise leadership on risks and key decisions.

Skills

Vehicle architecture

Systems engineering

MBSE

V-model

Requirements management

Change control

Program leadership

Cross-CoC integration

Regulatory compliance

Cost & weight optimization

Quality improvement

Supplier management

Field feedback analysis

Stakeholder management

Technical reviews

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical/Automobile/Electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics

M.E./M.Tech in Automotive/Systems/Mechanical/Electrical

Management or program leadership qualification (advantage)

Job description

Provide end-to-end technical leadership for the complete portfolio of 3-Wheeler and 4-Wheeler Commercial Mobility vehicles from the Centre of Competence (CoC) perspective. Own the vehicle product vision, technical concept, architecture, target book and engineering delivery across the full lifecycle, from customer and market requirement translation through concept, design, integration, validation, industrialisation, launch and field improvement. Act as the single vehicle-level technical authority to integrate Body, Chassis, Powertrain / EV Systems, Electrical & Electronics, Embedded Software, Thermal, CAE, Testing, Homologation, Manufacturing, Quality, Purchase, Service and Aftersales. Ensure delivery of safe, reliable, durable, compliant and commercially competitive products within Quality, Cost, Delivery, Performance and Weight targets, while building scalable platforms, common architectures and future-ready engineering capability for CMB.

Key Responsibilities

1) Define and own the vehicle vision, customer value proposition, and technical direction for all 3W and 4W platforms.

2) Lead vehicle architecture, platform strategy, package integration, and technology roadmaps across ICE, EV, and future mobility solutions.

3) Drive end-to-end system integration across all Engineering CoCs, ensuring alignment of vehicle-level objectives and interfaces.

4) Establish and govern vehicle targets covering performance, efficiency, quality, safety, reliability, weight, cost, and customer experience.

5) Lead technical reviews, gateway approvals, configuration management, and engineering change control throughout the product lifecycle.

6) Ensure compliance with regulatory, homologation, functional safety, cybersecurity, and environmental requirements.

7) Approve vehicle verification, validation, sign-off, and launch readiness plans to ensure robust product delivery.

8) Drive value engineering, cost optimization, localization, and manufacturability in partnership with suppliers and manufacturing teams.

9) Monitor field performance, warranty trends, and customer feedback, driving continuous product and platform improvements.

10) Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams, develop technical capabilities, and drive succession planning.

11) Manage engineering budgets, resource allocation, and capability investments to support business growth.

12) Act as the primary technical authority for CMB vehicle programs, advising senior leadership on product strategy, risks, and key decisions. 13) Manage, Achieve and Report all milestone deliverables of NPD towards achieving right design maturity at each NPD process gates 14) Work with all cross functioal teams across organization to achieve desired reults.

Education

B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical, Automobile, Electrical, Electronics, Mechatronics or related engineering discipline. M.E. / M.Tech in Automotive, Systems, Mechanical, Electrical or a related field is preferred. Management or program leadership qualification is an advantage.

Experience

20+ years of automotive product development experience, including substantial vehicle-level leadership for 3W, 4W, commercial vehicle, passenger vehicle or adjacent mobility platforms. Demonstrated ownership of at least one complete vehicle program from concept to launch and field stabilisation; experience across EV and/or ICE architectures, multi-CoC integration, validation and industrialization is preferred.

Key Skills

• Complete vehicle engineering and architecture: expert understanding of vehicle attributes, package, systems interfaces, integration and trade-off management across 3W and 4W platforms.
• Commercial mobility domain: strong knowledge of duty cycles, payload, total cost of ownership, durability, reliability, serviceability, uptime, fleet/customer needs and regional operating conditions.
• Product development leadership: target setting, requirements management, systems engineering / V-model, technical gateways, configuration management and change control.
• Cross-domain depth: working mastery of body, chassis, suspension, steering, brakes, powertrain / EV systems, E/E architecture, embedded software, thermal systems, vehicle dynamics, NVH, CAE and validation.
• Safety and compliance: knowledge of applicable vehicle regulations, homologation, functional safety, cybersecurity, DFMEA / System FMEA, DVP, reliability and quality methods.
• QCD and industrialisation: design-to-cost, value engineering, supplier technical management, manufacturing feasibility, launch readiness, root-cause methods and field-quality improvement.
• Digital engineering: exposure to MBSE, requirements tools, PLM, simulation-led development, data-based decision-making and connected vehicle diagnostics.
• Strategic orientation and customer focus; enterprise-level systems thinking; decisive technical judgement under ambiguity.
• Influencing without direct authority; strong governance, conflict resolution, communication and executive stakeholder management.
• Builds technical capability, coaches leaders, encourages innovation and creates accountability across distributed teams.
• Integrity, ownership, learning agility, collaboration and disciplined execution.