Technical Lead- Cosmos-Configuration manager

embIND Embitel Technologies (India) Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Embitel Technologies is seeking a Configuration Manager to lead and govern Configuration Management practices across the COSMOS project. You will ensure CM strategies, baselines, and audit readiness, coordinating with Development, QA, DevOps, Release Engineering, Architecture, and Quality teams to maintain controlled delivery.

The role requires 7+ years in CM, strong documentation, and expertise in Automotive SPICE SUP.10, with a focus on end-to-end traceability and compliance across multiple

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Configuration Management.
• Strong knowledge of CM principles and audits.
• Expertise in baseline management and governance.
• Understanding of release management and change control processes.
• Experience with Automotive SPICE SUP.10 and related processes.
• Advanced Git: branching, tagging, protected branches.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain CM plans for projects and ARTs; establish governance and audit schedules.
• Identify, classify and maintain configuration items including software, docs, test assets and baselines.
• Own branching strategy and enforce tagging standards and provenance metadata.
• Establish baseline types and approval criteria; manage release baselines and evidence packages.
• Ensure build pipelines generate traceable artifacts; govern artifact repositories and SBOMs.
• Collaborate with Release Engineering during release prep and deployment; support audits and CAPA.
• Maintain end-to-end CM traceability across changes, defects, commits, builds, and environments.

Skills

Configuration Management

Git

Jira

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Confluence

Audits

Release Management

Automation

Documentation

Tools

SBOM tools

CycloneDX

Maven/Gradle

SBOM generation

Job description

About the Company

Embitel Technologies is a Volkswagen AG (VW) Group Company. VW is a German multinational automotive manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. VW is one of the world’s largest automaker by sales. VW sold 10.9 million vehicles in 2019. The group comprises of 12 brands from seven European Countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Bentley, Ducati (motorcycles), Skoda, SEAT, Scania, MAN and Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

About CARIAD

The automotive industry is in disruption. As a company, CARIAD is playing a part in multiple large trends at the same time: electrification, automation, and digitalization. The new name builds on changing customer needs. Automotive customers are demanding more comfort, more safety, more sustainability, and more connectivity. With its software platforms and digital features, CARIAD is developing solutions and products that will turn the car into a smart companion to accompany customers into the future with continuous updates and new digital features, even years later. The new company name reflects this zeitgeist: ‘Car, I Am Digital’. The brand profile can be found on its new website https://cariad.technology. Currently, around 4,000 employees are working at CARIAD on the digital transformation of the car. CARIAD is working intensively on the software and technology platform for Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The first vehicles based on PPE will be the electric Porsche Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron. At the core of CARIAD is the development of the unified and scalable software and technology platform E³ 2.0 for all Group brands. E³ stands for ‘end to end electronics architecture’. The new software and technology platform is built from scratch and will be used first at the end of 2024 in Artemis, the lighthouse project of Audi. As of 2026, E³ 2.0 is due to be scaled by the Volkswagen brand with Trinity in the volume segment.

Job Description

Job Title: Configuration manager

Experience: 7 to 10 years

Grade: A4/ B3

Team: COSMOS

No of positions: 1

Job Overview: We are looking for a highly motivated Configuration manager to lead and govern Configuration management activities for the COSMOS Project. The Configuration Manager is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving Configuration Management (CM) practices across products, projects, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs). The role ensures the integrity, traceability, reproducibility, and auditability of all configuration items throughout the software development and release lifecycle. The Configuration Manager establishes CM strategies, manages baselines, controls configuration changes, ensures compliance with organizational and Automotive SPICE requirements, and works closely with Development, QA, DevOps, Release Engineering, Architecture, and Quality teams to maintain consistent and controlled delivery processes. This role is critical in ensuring end‑to‑end traceability from change requests through releases and supporting compliance, audit readiness, and long‑term product maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Configuration Management Plans (CMPs) for projects and ARTs. Establish CM strategy, scope, governance model, operating cadence, and audit schedules. Define configuration item taxonomy, naming conventions, versioning standards, and approval workflows. Ensure CM activities align with release management and PI planning cycles.
• Identify, classify, and maintain configuration items including software, documentation, test assets, build configurations, environment templates, release artifacts, and compliance evidence. Maintain accurate and accessible CI registers and ownership information. Conduct periodic reviews to ensure completeness and accuracy of configuration records.
• Own the branching strategy (mainline, release branches, hotfix) in line with release cadence and rollback needs. Enforce tagging standards (signedtags where required), semantic/agreed versioning, and provenance metadata (commit/build/time).
• Establish baseline types, approval criteria, and governance checkpoints. Coordinate creation, review, approval, and maintenance of design, test, code, and release baselines. Maintain baseline registers and ensure controlled evolution of baselined artifacts.
• Ensure build pipelines generate traceable and reproducible software artifacts. Govern artifact repository structure, retention policies, immutability, and archival mechanisms. Conduct rebuild verification activities to validate release reproducibility. Manage SBOMs, checksums, and software integrity controls where applicable.
• Integrate Configuration Management processes with Change Request and defect management workflows. Ensure all configuration changes are traceable to approved requests. Govern runtime parameters, feature flags, configuration files, and environment‑specific settings. Support compliance with Automotive SPICE SUP.10 requirements.
• Maintain end‑to‑end configuration traceability covering: Change Requests, Defects, Commits, Builds, Artifacts, Environment Configurations, Release Baselines, Compliance Evidence. Create CM dashboards, metrics, reports, and compliance status updates. Identify risks, gaps, and corrective actions.
• Define and monitor backup and recovery strategies for repositories and artifact stores. Ensure long‑term retention and preservation of release evidence and baselines. Support legal, regulatory, and organizational archival requirements.
• Collaborate with Release Engineering during release preparation and deployment activities. Validate completeness and traceability of release evidence packages. Ensure successful repository synchronization with external stakeholders and customer organizations. Support release reviews such as SRR and RCC.
• Support internal and external audits, assessments, and Automotive SPICE evaluations. Address audit findings through corrective and preventive actions (CAPA). Drive automation, standardization, and process improvements to enhance CM effectiveness. Improve documentation quality and reduce operational inefficiencies.

Required Skills

• 7+ years of experience in project management Configuration Management.
• Strong knowledge of Configuration Management principles: Configuration Planning Configuration Identification Configuration Control Configuration Status Accounting Configuration Audits.
• Expertise in baseline management and configuration governance.
• Understanding of release management and change control processes.
• Experience in Automotive SPICE, particularly SUP.10 and related support processes.
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end traceability requirements.
• Advanced Git expertise: Branching strategies Tagging standards Protected branches Cherry‑pick and revert practices Signed tags.
• CI/CD platforms: Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Pipeline governance.
• Artifact repository management and software provenance practices.
• Jira (DevStack/VWIF) administration and reporting.
• Confluence documentation and template management.
• Experience with: SBOM generation tools (e.g., CycloneDX) Software integrity verification Secret scanning and security compliance tooling.
• Knowledge of Java‑based service ecosystems.
• Familiarity with Maven and Gradle build systems.
• Understanding of dependency and version management.
• Experience managing environment configurations, feature flags, and secret stores.
• Basic understanding of observability concepts including logs, metrics, and health monitoring.
• Strong analytical and detail‑oriented mindset.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively across development, QA, architecture, release, and quality teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation capabilities.
• Ability to make sound decisions during release freezes, hotfix scenarios, and critical production situations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice‑to‑have

• Experience in automotive, IoT, or large‑scale enterprise systems.
• PMP, Scrum Master or similar project management certification.
• Exposure to cloud technologies and infrastructure as code.

Working with Embitel

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Embitel Technologies is a leading digital transformation company specializing in automotive embedded systems, connected mobility, and digital commerce/experience. We have been instrumental in delivering software‑defined vehicle (SDV) solutions for global automotive OEMs and Tier1 suppliers. We have also been helping leading brands achieve sustainable digital transformation across industries. We are a 100% subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. Embitel serves all 12 brands of the Volkswagen Group through our CARIAD India unit, contributing to platform software, ADAS/AD, energy and diagnostics systems, and scalable compute platforms. Simultaneously, we work with third‑party automotive OEMs and Tier1 suppliers, making us one of India’s first engineering‑led GCC Plus organizations.

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