Responsibilities
Device-Cloud Architecture:
- Own the end-to-end architecture for cloud-managed device platforms, covering device firmware, connectivity, and cloud integration.
- Define firmware architecture to enable reliable, secure cloud connectivity on constrained devices.
- Establish implementation patterns for embedded systems using C or C++ and Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) such as Zephyr.
- Define device–cloud interaction patterns (for example, Azure IoT Hub, Device Provisioning Service, Intune), ensuring scalability, security, and enterprise readiness.
- Lead architecture across key domains:- Device provisioning, identity, and certificate management
- Secure communication (TLS, mutual TLS, SCEP)
- Firmware and configuration update strategies (over-the-air updates)
- Observability, telemetry, logging, and diagnostics
- Remote device control and lifecycle operations
- Ensure alignment between device-side capabilities and cloud platform services, including constraints, protocols, and security models.
- Drive design decisions to optimize performance, reliability, and resource utilization in constrained environments.
Delivery, Execution, and Risk Management:
- Ensure successful end-to-end delivery of embedded and IoT solutions within complex enterprise environments.
- Actively support implementation, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues across firmware, connectivity, and cloud integration layers.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical risks across device, firmware, and integration components.
- Drive alignment between architecture and implementation, ensuring solutions are delivered as designed and meet quality, performance, and security expectations.
- Lead and support integration with cloud services such as Azure IoT Hub, Device Provisioning Service, and device management platforms.
Technical Leadership:
- Serve as the technical authority for embedded systems and device–cloud connectivity within the engagement.
- Provide hands-on guidance, mentorship, and architectural oversight to engineering teams.
- Establish and promote best practices in embedded development, including real-time constraints, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Support design and implementation decisions, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and system constraints.
- Contribute to engineering standards and best practices within the team or project.
- Balance hands-on involvement with architectural leadership as required.
Stakeholder and Client Engagement:
- Engage with client architects, product owners, and senior stakeholders to understand requirements and shape solution direction.
- Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical architectures and actionable delivery plans.
- Act as a trusted advisor on embedded systems and device–cloud architecture decisions.
- Support solution shaping and pre-sales activities in embedded and IoT domains as needed.
Qualifications
Embedded Systems and Firmware
- Strong experience in embedded systems development using C or C++.
- Hands-on experience with Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) such as Zephyr, FreeRTOS, and ThreadX.
- Proven experience designing and implementing embedded or firmware architectures.
Networking and Secure Device Connectivity
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and MQTT.
- Practical experience implementing secure communication in embedded or constrained environments.
- Working knowledge of device identity and certificate-based authentication concepts. Device–Cloud Integration
- Experience building or integrating cloud-connected devices.
- Strong understanding of core device–cloud interaction patterns.
Architecture and Systems Thinking
- Ability to design systems that span device and cloud components, balancing performance, reliability, and security.
- Demonstrated ability to make technical trade-offs in constrained environments.
Delivery and Execution
- Experience delivering embedded or IoT solutions through implementation and integration phases (not just design).
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting issues across firmware, networking, or integration layers.
- Ability to identify and mitigate technical risks during delivery.
Technical Leadership and Collaboration
- Experience providing technical guidance to engineering teams.
- Experience working in cross-functional environments.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Azure IoT ecosystem.
- Experience with certificate lifecycle management at scale.
- Experience with hardware-backed security.
- Experience implementing enterprise networking features.
- Experience integrating devices into enterprise IT environments with strict security requirements.
- Experience implementing over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates.
- Experience with device-side logging, telemetry, and remote diagnostics.
- Experience with collaboration devices, docking stations, or similar enterprise hardware platforms.
- Familiarity with HP Poly or similar voice and video collaboration ecosystems.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces and drive clarity across device, network, and cloud domains.
- Demonstrated ownership mindset with a focus on delivering end-to-end outcomes and proactively resolving gaps.
- Ability to influence technical decisions across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
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