Jayakumar Sengottuvel

✅ Team Leadership

• People Management: Manage direct reports with full disciplinary responsibilities and indirect reports.
• Competency Development: Mentoring and coaching team members, trainings, safety at work, performance feedback and professional development.

✅ Global Team Building & Recruitment

• Interviewed 500+ candidates, recruited 50+ top engineers and managers.
• Built and managed cross-functional, internationally distributed teams.

✅ Technology Strategy

• Actively involved in software stack, toolchain, and key hardware selection.

✅ Technical Leadership & ECU Development

• AUTOSAR BSW & ECU Bring-up: Managing the end-to-end software lifecycle from RFI to series production.
• System & Software Architecture: Expert in Telematics(FOTA, Remote Diagnostics), CAN Gateways and (e)Vehicle Control Unit.
• Architectural Optimization: Proposing alternative architectures to enhance scalability, cost reduction and maintainability.
• Complex Driver Implementation: Hands-on expertise in Embedded C, ensuring modular, reusable, and readable designs.

✅ Process Excellence & Compliance

• ASPICE SWE Process Owner: Define CL2-compliant guidelines and optimized workflows. Participate in assessments and drive continuous improvement to address gaps in a cost-effective and practical manner.
• ISO 26262 (ASIL-B) Functional Safety: FSC discussions and reviewing Technical Safety Concepts.
• ISO 21434 Cybersecurity: TÜV Rheinland certified; evaluating security requirements and reviewing security architecture.

✅ Project Leadership

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Manager: Driving Agile practices, prioritizing features, build teams that ensures predictable delivery.
• Technical Project Management: Strategic customer negotiation, milestone planning, and stakeholder communication. Ensure complete project success.

✅ Supplier Management & Offshore Coordination

• Supplier Selection & Contract Negotiation: Evaluating, selecting, and onboarding key suppliers for critical project needs.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Ensuring smooth collaboration with offshore development teams, maintaining technical and quality standards.
• International Exposure: Worked with consultants and supplier teams spread across Romania, Croatia, Poland, Austria, Egypt, India and Germany.

✅ Stakeholder Communication & Strategic Negotiation

• Clear & Transparent Communication: Ensuring alignment between internal teams, leadership, and external stakeholders.
• Strategic Negotiation & Ownership: Balancing feasibility, feature scope and timelines while managing change requests.
• Customer & Executive Engagement: Presenting architectural proposals, project milestones, Investment needs to decision-makers.

✅ Passion for Continuous Integration & Related Technologies

• While not my core expertise, I have a passion for CI/CD, Docs as Code, Docker, PROXMOX, AWS Cloud. I explore and integrate these technologies to enhance workflows.
• I have experience in IoT device firmware and connectivity topcis.