Principal Data Scientist

Role Summary:

The Technical Director will lead platform evolution, feature migration, horizontal scalability, and customer adaptations, while also acting as a strategic enabler for innovation, research, and talent development.

The role blends technical depth, product vision, and leadership to balance current commitments and future readiness.

Responsibilities A. Strategic Responsibilities Growth, Vision & Innovation:

• Act as a growth enabler with the Head of Department through well-designed POCs.

• Anticipate technological shifts and drive early prototypes to ensure future readiness.

• Envision platform and product capabilities aligned with long-term strategy.

Research, Talent & Funding:

• Mentor and develop Technical Architects and Product Owners.

• Shape university and research collaborations aligned with platform strategy.

• Front-end with stakeholders to support funding and investment decisions for new problem areas.

B. Operational Responsibilities Platform & Architecture:

• Lead rapid feature migration and platform evolution.

• Architect horizontally scalable, multi-tenant systems.

• Define reference architectures and ensure technical governance.

Customer Enablement & Delivery:

• Drive customer adaptations across TL, TSR, and MAV.

• Enable platform localization and fast POC deployments.

• Ensure predictable delivery of current customer and platform commitments.

Dual Focus Execution:

• Balance delivery excellence today with building future technologies in parallel.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Platform engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures

• Strategic thinking with strong execution ownership

• Stakeholder leadership, mentoring, and innovation mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science

• Experience with ADAS (Automotive domain)

• 12+ years of experience with 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles

• Experience with platform products or large-scale systems Success Metrics

• Effective positioning of the team through strategic POCs

• Improved platform scalability and reuse

• Faster customer onboarding and POC readiness

• Strong pipeline of future technical leaders

• Visible progress toward future-ready technologies Role Essence Deliver today with excellence while building the technology, talent, and vision for tomorrow.

BE CS

15 yrs