Job Description
For Client, digital means using
technology to extract data from our machines and engines and transform it
into valuable recommendations and insights to help customers make better,
more informed decisions and help Client make robust products with the lowest
total ownership cost. Our products generate and process large amounts of
data from sensors, onboard models, and control algorithms in real-time
creating real-world machine usage information to provide condition monitoring
and fleet management services.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- In this role you will be involved in specifying functional requirements
and developing solution concepts to address customer needs across on-asset
electronic systems and our digital platforms. You will be responsible for
gathering new customer connectivity feature requests, refining these
requests, guiding them through the architecture, development and validation
process and ensuring their timely delivery. In this role you will collaborate
with Client Digital architecture, platform and applications teams and execute
on new technology implementation, research and evaluation of emerging digital
technologies and solutions.
- This position will be in Peoria, IL within Enterprise Connectivity team
inside the Client Digital organization which has enterprise accountability
for telematics and telecommunications product line strategy, rationalization,
quality, and cost. This position will be critical in gathering connectivity
(telematics) requirements for various projects across the industries and
business units, consolidating and rationalizing that input, and considering
tradeoffs in costs and functionality to drive optimal enterprise solutions
for the global market. You will also be accountable for the delivery of
the resulting product line solutions for factories and
aftermarket.
Why Client? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class
solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Client.
With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Client
travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best
minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and
develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that
matters.”
Typical task breakdown:
- Responsible for gathering connectivity feature requests from customers.
Follows policies, practices and standards for determining functional and
non-functional requirements.
- Participating in addressing business requirements for applications and
collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver digital solutions that
meets business results.
- Collaborate with performing organizations with respect to deliverables
associated with requirements.
- Participates in the preparation of detailed documentation and requirements.
Utilizes specific organizational methods, tools and techniques for
requirements analysis.
- Collaborate with Client Digital, IC&S and product groups to design an
application's technical infrastructure, such as specific databases,
utilities, verification and validation approaches.
- Will require interfacing with customers including Construction Industries,
Resource Industries, Energy & Transportation, and Aftermarket.
- Assist in creating, prioritizing, and maintaining the connectivity feature
request backlog.
- Participates in the technical design of a specific application or solution
(on-board/off-board). Selects and presents design alternatives for
application(s) of small to medium complexity. Defines tasks, activities,
deliverables, and key concerns of technical design. Assists in reviewing and
documenting technical application designs.
- Leading the evaluation and deployment of new digital technologies and
solutions to add or enhance existing digital technical capabilities.
- Works with specific development platforms, system and program design tools.
- Overseeing and ensuring the timely delivery of connectivity features
through collaboration with development partners in both ICS and Client Digital.
This entails shepherding features through architectural assessment,
engineering forecasting, release commitment, validation and
delivery.
- Communicate the status of feature requests to stakeholders and customers in
clear, concise, and compelling manner.
Interaction with team:
- 5 within team and 14 overall for the larger team
Work environment:
- Hybrid work model; 3x days in office ( Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field
- Minimum of 5 years exp in this capacity
Technical Skills
(Required)
- Strong accountability, planning/organization, and teamwork
- Must have demonstrated analytical skills and the ability to perform complex
assignments
- Requires a self-starter with strong technical skills
- Must have ability to communicate technical information effectively with
team members and others in the work group, as well as employees in other
business units, customers, and suppliers.
- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication
concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and
accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of
appropriate communication behaviors.
- Systems Thinking: Knowledge of the critical interdependencies among
individual system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan
and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results.
- Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of basic activities and
deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design
methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and
logical models into a technical application design.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting
approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and
resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
(Desired)
- Knowledge of machine systems and/or telematics/connectivity space
- Understanding of connectivity end-to-end architecture (onboard to offboard)
- Understanding of development and validation process for both onboard and
offboard feature development
- Experience managing projects and feature delivery with Azure DevOps
- Requirements gathering and documentation experience with customers.
- Fundamental understanding of mobile machine operation, ideally construction
equipment and operations
- Experience developing embedded real-time software or systems for mobile,
earthmoving, agricultural, industrial, or off-highway applications
Soft Skills
(Required)
- Excellent communication skills
Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
- Choppy tenure ( less than 1 year at a role) / Job Hopping
Travel Requirement: 0-25%
Export Control Requirements : NO
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