Technical Group Leader

Job Summary

The Electrical Distribution Systems Engineer is responsible for defining and driving the enterprise-level end-to-end strategy, architecture, execution, transformations and delivery of LV and HV electrical distribution systems across all EV/HEV/ICE platforms.

This role goes beyond conventional EDS leadership; it requires redefining how electrical power is generated, distributed, controlled, and optimized across next-generation EV platforms.

This role provides technical and organizational leadership, ensuring scalable, safe, cost-optimized, and future-ready electrical architectures aligned with business goals.

You will drive a shift toward:

• Software-defined electrical architectures
• Radical simplification of harness systems
• Integrated hardware-software power management
• Step-change improvements in cost, weight, and manufacturability

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring strong technical depth, organizational leadership, and a bias for first-principles disruption of legacy automotive practices.

Group Company: TVS Motor

Office Location: Hosur

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership Architecture Ownership
• Define long-term strategy for electrical distribution systems across vehicle portfolio (2W/3W/4W as applicable)
• Establish platform-level electrical architecture (LV HV), including: Domain/Zonal architecture strategy
• HV distribution topology (roadmap)
• Drive modularity, scalability, and reuse across vehicle programs
• Power distribution philosophy
• Protection strategy and redundancy
• Harness architecture and power zoning
• Technology Innovation Roadmap
• Define and deploy next-generation technologies
• Smart power distribution (solid-state switching, e-fuses)
• Domain/Zonal E/E architectures
• Integrated power electronics and distribution units
• Benchmark global OEMs and Tier-1 innovations
• Build roadmap challenging traditional automotive design norms targeting:
• Lightweight harness solutions
• High-efficiency distribution systems
• Digital diagnostics and predictive health monitoring
• Cost, weight and assembly complexity
• System Engineering Excellence
• Govern system-level design, validation, and integration processes
• Load flow, fault analysis, thermal design (Simulation of voltage drop, Transient load, fault modelling under real world condition)
• Simulation-driven design (Model-Based Systems Engineering through Matlab Simulink system models and digital twin)
• Ensure robust Design Validation Plans (DVP) and system verification frameworks
• Institutionalize best practices in DFMEA, DRBFM, and reliability engineering
• Own EDS Design for Manufacturing (DFM) strategy:
• Automation-ready harness systems
• Reduced manual routing
• Program Portfolio Delivery
• Oversee delivery of electrical distribution systems across multiple vehicle programs
• On-time milestone achievement
• Cost, weight, and performance targets
• Correct layout and packaging at vehicle level
• Proactively manage risks, change management, and issue resolution
• Align system design with product strategy and platform roadmap
• Drive aggressive development cycles removing bottlenecks ensuring fast decision making and cross functional alignment
• Cross-functional Organizational Leadership
• Build and lead high-performance EDS organization, including:
• Architecture
• Design integration
• Validation simulation
• Define:
• Org structure
• Capability roadmap
• Hiring strategy (world-class talent)
• Lead collaboration ensuring seamless integration of EDS across:
• Battery systems
• Power electronics
• Vehicle integration
• Manufacturing and quality teams
• Vehicle control software
• Safety systems
• Align architecture decisions with manufacturing and serviceability requirements
• Act as technical authority in leadership forums
• Create a culture of:
• Extreme ownership
• Speed and accountability
• Hands-on engineering leadership
• Functional competency
• Expertise in electronic components, and automotive architectures development and testing
• Hands-on, rigorous, creative/innovative mindset with experience in advanced automotive system development using advanced engineering and R&D methodologies
• Ability to deal effectively with and lead within a fast-paced, dynamic and change-oriented environment
• Deep knowledge and expertise in EEE/EV/HEV subsystem quality process
• Direct experience on EEE value chain
• Excellent leadership skills with experience in building and leading engineering and business teams that may be in multiple locations (International experience preferred)
• Management of logistically distributed projects and team
• Knowledge about the most common automotive communication line and power distribution systems (CAN, LIN, K-Line, FlexRay etc.)
• Project management experience
• High-voltage distribution system design in electric vehicles

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