Technical Lead - Steering & Brakes

Technical Lead - Steering & Brakes At Tata Technologies, we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering, and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth, we are now recruiting a Technical Lead to strengthen our engineering team. Key Responsibilities

• Own the planning, coordination, and delivery of Brakes and Steering Software (SW) for customer projects, ensuring agreed scope, timing, and quality targets are met.
• Analyse RFQ/TR requirements and translate them into clear, prioritised, and actionable backlog items for development teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional software development activities and align deliverables across engineering, validation, project, and customer teams.
• Monitor project milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues; define mitigation actions and escalate critical concerns in a timely manner.
• Drive the investigation and resolution of technical issues affecting software development, integration, validation, or delivery.
• Represent the software domain in technical and commercial discussions to clarify requirements, assumptions, interfaces, and delivery expectations.
• Lead internal development initiatives in alignment with the product roadmap and customer programme needs.
• Maintain effective working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Promote clear ownership, collaboration, accountability, and a strong customer focus throughout project execution.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 9–12 years of professional experience in the automotive industry, with substantial experience in braking, steering, chassis, or related vehicle-control systems.
• Proven experience with passenger-car software development lifecycles, project milestones, requirements management, integration, validation, and release processes.
• Strong knowledge of braking and steering system validation, including DPR/TR, test equipment, system interfaces, and applicable automotive standards.
• Hands-on experience with HIL testing using dSPACE tools such as ControlDesk, AutomationDesk, and VT System.
• Experience documenting test cases, executing tests, and managing test verdicts using SystemWeaver or Electra.
• Experience with automotive development, diagnostics, measurement, and calibration tools, including Vector tools, INCA, and MDA.
• Working knowledge of functional safety and automotive quality processes, including ISO 26262, ASPICE, FMEA/SFMEA, Technical Safety Concept (TSC), Technical Safety Requirements (TSR), FSR, degradation and safe-state analysis, DTC mapping, fault analysis, and system-level validation.
• Demonstrated experience in chassis software development, particularly steering and braking, covering component-, system-, and vehicle-level testing, legal requirements, and software-release documentation such as CRB/IRB.
• Experience with relevant engineering and lifecycle tools such as CarWeaver, Electra, Car-Com, KDP, and TCPLM.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical, project, and customer organisations.

Preferred Qualifications Previous experience working with OEM programmes, development processes, tools, or interfaces is an advantage. If you are passionate about bringing innovation to the projects you work on then we would love to hear from you. Tata Technologies: Engineering a better world. Tata Technologies would like to thank all applicants for their interest; each application will be reviewed against the set criteria for the role. We would like to advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days following the closing date it will mean that unfortunately your application has not been successful. We will however retain your details for any suitable future opportunities.