Hardware System Architect

Job Title: Hardware System Architect

Department: Product and R&D

Reporting line: Product Performance Team Lead

Location: Berlin Germany

Job Grade: Mid-Senior

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

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Job Purpose/Mission

The Product Performance Team is responsible for facilitating requirement definition, ensuring that requirements are validated and tracked during development/NPI and lastly managing post launch product performance. This will be achieved by working with the leaders of Product Management and R&D, to define and manage the development processes, drive the test and validation activities, and to implement performance monitoring metrics (and corrective actions) for the product after launch.

Consequently, this role will be focused on ensuring that a system engineering framework and process is followed during the development and maintenance of new products. You will be a key stakeholder in a cross functional product development team, facilitating system decisions and tracking requirements to ensure all customer requirements are met.

Responsibilities

• Requirement definitions and management (customer requirements to technical requirements)

• Lead technical trade off decision facilitation as part of cross functional team

• Stakeholder communication and management: Hardware and Firmware Engineering, Project management and Supply Chain

• Overview of system architecture developed and maintained

• Ensuring adequate test coverage to ensure requirements are fulfilled

• Support in defining production test requirements and in field maintenance infrastructure

• Co-ordinating engineering change requests during mass production stage

• Product lifecycle management from concept to end of life (EOL)

• Contribute to and support product roadmap decisions and innovation strategy

• Co-ordinate with digital stakeholders to define and implement broader digital architecture (backend, digital tools and data acquisition)

Knowledge and skills

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in hardware product development

• System engineering development framework and principles

• Requirements and risk management tools

• Facilitation of technical discussions and meetings

• Meticulous technical documentation skills

• Hands on experience with electronic product development, prototyping, validation (manual and/or automated)

• Experience with development of solar systems

• Basic IOT system understanding

• Basic project management skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Electrical, Electronic or Mechatronic Engineering

Language(s):

• Fluent in English

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!