Program Coordinator & Enterprise ArchitectVision X — Video Surveillance AI / VSaaS

HCL Technologies Limited; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited is seeking a senior Program Lead for Vision X, our enterprise video-intelligence platform. You will coordinate IT, OT, EHS, and Operations, owning the enterprise architecture for a scalable, secure VSaaS across multiple plants.

You will run steering committees, drive vendor coordination, and deliver value through safety and productivity improvements. This role requires leadership in both boardrooms and shop floors, with significant travel to sites in Wisconsin and beyond.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of combined program/delivery leadership and enterprise/solution architecture experience.
• Demonstrable delivery of video surveillance, VSaaS, or enterprise computer-vision programs at scale.
• Deep architectural fluency across the vision AI stack.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the Vision X program across multiple plants — from value proof to enterprise rollout.
• Establish and run program governance: steering committees, status reports, RAID management, stage-gate reviews.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across EHS/Safety, Operations, IT/OT, Quality, Legal/HR, and Finance.

Skills

Program leadership

Enterprise architecture

VSaaS deployment

Video surveillance

OT/IT convergence

Stakeholder management

OpenCV/AI stack

Tools

Milestone XProtect

ISA-95

OPC-UA

Kafka

Job description

We are deploying Vision X, our enterprise video-intelligence platform, across manufacturing operations — applying AI to live and recorded camera feeds to detect safety violations, enforce compliance, and unlock shopfloor productivity. This is a dual-hatted, senior individual-contributor-plus-leadership role for someone who can both coordinate the end-to-end program across IT, OT, EHS, and Operations and own the enterprise architecture for a scalable, secure, multi-site Video-Surveillance-as-a-Service (VSaaS) deployment.

The right person is equally comfortable in the boardroom and on the shopfloor: able to run a steering committee and a plant-floor camera survey in the same week, translate an EHS incident-reduction target into a reference architecture, and hold vendors, systems integrators, and internal stakeholders to a single delivery roadmap.

What You'll Own

Program Coordination & Delivery Leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery of the Vision X program across multiple plants — from proof-of-value through enterprise rollout — against scope, schedule, budget, and value targets.
• Establish and run program governance: steering committees, executive status reporting, RAID (risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies) management, and stage-gate reviews.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across EHS / Safety, Operations, IT, OT & Automation, Quality, Legal/HR, and Finance — resolving competing priorities and securing decisions.
• Manage the vendor and partner ecosystem: VMS providers, GPU/edge suppliers, camera OEMs, connectivity partners, and systems integrators — SOWs, SLAs, and delivery accountability.
• Build and maintain the multi-site rollout playbook: site-readiness assessments, camera/network surveys, deployment sequencing, and repeatable onboarding for each plant.
• Lead change management and workforce adoption — operator training, floor-leader enablement, and communications that build trust in AI-assisted safety and productivity monitoring.
• Define and track program value — safety-incident reduction, compliance rates, near-miss capture, and OEE/productivity uplift — with baselined, defensible KPIs (illustrative and directional until validated against site data).
• Manage program financials: business case, capex/opex modeling, and per-site cost-to-serve (camera counts, edge compute, licensing, cloud/on-prem economics).
• Own the Vision X reference architecture — a secure, scalable edge-to-cloud vision pipeline standardized across sites.
• Camera & network layer: ONVIF/RTSP camera integration, PoE and edge connectivity, VLAN/segmentation design, bandwidth and retention planning.
• Video management layer: integration with Milestone XProtect–class VMS for ingestion, recording, retention, and access control; hybrid/cloud VSaaS delivery model.
• Vision AI layer: design streaming inference pipelines (NVIDIA DeepStream / Metropolis) combining TAO-trained deep-learning models, classical OpenCV routines, and custom detectors/trackers for shopfloor use cases.
• Edge & inference: Jetson (Orin / AGX) and industrial-edge sizing, TensorRT optimization, Triton serving, and fleet orchestration for distributed camera nodes.
• Analytics & search: forensic/video-synopsis search, real-time alerting, dashboards, heatmaps, and object/attribute filtering (BriefCam-class capabilities).
• Integration architecture: connect vision events to MES/SCADA/Historian and enterprise systems via ISA-95, OPC-UA/MQTT, Unified Namespace, and Kafka streaming.
• Security & privacy by design: OT cybersecurity (IEC 62443), data governance, retention/redaction policies, worker-consent frameworks, and Responsible-AI governance for workforce-facing analytics.
• MLOps & model lifecycle: dataset strategy, labeling, drift monitoring, retraining, versioning, and safe edge model deployment.
• Non-functional design: scalability to N cameras across sites, high availability/DR, latency budgets, and cloud-vs-on-prem cost/tokenomics trade-offs.
• Set architecture standards, patterns, and reference designs that every site deployment inherits.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of combined program/delivery leadership and enterprise/solution architecture experience.
• Demonstrable delivery of video surveillance, VSaaS, or enterprise computer-vision programs at scale.
• Deep architectural (and ideally hands-on) fluency across the vision AI stack below.
• Strong manufacturing / industrial / OT environment experience with genuine shopfloor fluency.
• Working command of OpenCV and modern deep-learning CV — detection, tracking, pose estimation, and segmentation.
• Proven IT/OT convergence capability: industrial networking, OT security, and edge/plant infrastructure.
• Executive-grade stakeholder management and communication, paired with real technical depth.
• Wisconsin-based or willing to relocate; able to travel to plant, partner, and customer sites.