EE Architecture Lead Engineer

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 for EE Architecture Lead Engineer to be based at our customer's office in Gaydon.

Our Engineering Research and Development department (ER&D) is a fast growing function within Tata Technologies Limited that is assembled to work on exciting projects globally for multiple customers. It comprises highly specialized engineers across Automotive, Aerospace and Industrial Heavy Machinery.

Scope of Role

The successful applicant will join the E/E Architecture team to support the definition, development and implementation of vehicle electrical and electronic architectures across multiple customer programmes. The role requires a technically capable engineer who can translate vehicle and feature requirements into robust functional, logical and physical architecture solutions.

The successful candidate will work closely with customer engineering teams, system architects, network, diagnostics, software, cybersecurity, functional safety and integration teams. The role requires strong systems thinking, structured problem solving and the ability to communicate architecture decisions clearly from concept through validation and release.

Area of Responsibility

• Develop and maintain vehicle E/E architecture concepts, models and technical descriptions across multiple vehicle domains.

• Translate vehicle, feature and stakeholder requirements into functional, logical and physical architecture definitions.

• Define system boundaries, allocations, interfaces, communication paths and interactions between hardware and software elements.

• Perform architecture impact assessments for new features, components, variants and engineering changes.

• Maintain architecture requirements, assumptions, decisions, traceability and supporting engineering artefacts.

• Lead or support architecture reviews, design assessments, technical workshops and customer governance forums.

• Coordinate architecture interfaces with network, diagnostics, cybersecurity, functional safety, software and integration teams.

• Support concept selection, technical trade-off studies, reuse assessments and risk mitigation activities.

• Ensure architecture solutions consider integration, validation, serviceability, scalability and production constraints.

• Support issue investigation and root cause analysis for cross-domain architecture and integration concerns.

• Contribute to architecture methods, standards, templates and continuous improvement activities.

Knowledge / Experience

Essential:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical, Electronic, Automotive, Systems or Software Engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Automotive E/E architecture, systems engineering or vehicle electrical engineering experience.
• Practical experience developing functional, logical and physical vehicle architectures and defining system interfaces.
• Strong understanding of vehicle ECUs distributed electrical systems, embedded software and communication networks including CAN, LIN and Automotive Ethernet.
• Experience with requirements management, architecture modelling, traceability and engineering change impact assessment.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and communicate complex architecture topics to customer, supplier and internal engineering teams.
• Experience supporting automotive programmes through concept, development, integration and validation stages.

Desirable:

• Hands-on experience with PREEvision and IBM DOORS / DOORS Next; working knowledge of JIRA and collaborative engineering tools.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering, SysML or equivalent architecture development methods.
• Knowledge of AUTOSAR, software-defined vehicle architectures and gateway concepts.
• Awareness of ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434 and Automotive SPICE processes.
• Experience working with an automotive OEM, Tier 1 supplier or global engineering service provider.

In return for bringing your expertise to our business we offer a competitive salary along with excellent benefits including:

• Pension Scheme – We match employee contribution up to 5% of salary
• 25 Days' Holiday
• Private Health Care
• Tata Jaguar Land Rover Privilege Scheme - up to 20% off new JLR vehicles
• Group Income Protection
• Health Assured – Employee Assistance Program
• Group Life Assurance
• Health Shield – Private Health Cash Plan

If you are passionate about bringing innovation to the projects you work on and want to join a global company, then this is the place for 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.