Senior Software Engineer - Requirement Engineering professional

Role Overview

We are looking for a motivated and an experienced Requirements Engineer with strong automotive domain expertise to lead end-to-end OTA feature development and cross-functional alignment for next generation OTA platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Work closely with development teams to clarify requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, and reviews.
• Ensure timely delivery of features, updates, and improvements with high quality.
• Bridge the gap between stakeholder needs and technical execution by eliciting, analyzing, and documenting precise system specifications.
• Monitor product performance and user feedback to continuously enhance the platform.
• Coordinate with security and compliance teams to uphold data security and privacy standards.
• Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to inform feature development and innovation.
• Act as the vital link between our clients and engineering team, transforming complex business visions into clear, actionable technical requirements.
• Facilitate communication across teams and escalate impediments to ensure smooth development flow.
• Support rollout planning, pilot testing phases, and rollout impact analysis.
• Manage regulatory compliance

Technical Expertise 10 yrs

• Basic good in Requirement writing for OTA
• Over-the-Air (OTA) Update Systems architecture
• Microservices architecture and RESTful APIs design and management
• Security standards for OTA updates encryption, signing, authentication
• Software update protocols such as HTTP(S), MQTT
• Database and storage solutions relevant for OTA update metadata
• Monitoring, logging, and telemetry platforms for backend health
• Requirement management and agile tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Understanding of device firmware, embedded software, and compatibility issues
• Knowledge of OTA constraints such as delta updates, rollback mechanisms

Competencies & Skills

• Product ownership and backlog management for complex backend platforms
• Agile, Scrum, and SAFe frameworks for program execution and scaling
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, QA, security, and operations
• Risk assessment and mitigation strategies specifically related to update failures and security vulnerabilities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset to prioritize features based on impact and feasibility
• Ability to synthesize customer feedback, telemetry data, and technical constraints into actionable product improvements
• Documentation skills to create clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications
• Change management and release planning for OTA rollout phases and canary deployments

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
• Creating technical documentation and product requirement specifications
• Use of tools for backlog and issue tracking (Jira) and collaboration (Confluence)

Soft skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams
• Detail oriented with a quality first mindset
• Quick learner, adaptive to new tools and technologies
• Ownership mindset and accountability in deliverables
• Effective in Agile/Scrum environments
• Ability to explain technical concepts clearly
• Proactive in identifying gaps and improving processes
• Time management and task prioritization
• Team player with strong peer review and mentoring skills