Change and Configuration Manager

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Role

You will be part of the HARMAN #ReadyUpgrade Project Management Team. Responsible for global Change and Configuration Management for software/hardware products.

In this role you will work with project- and product managers, project leads, engineers on driving the defined change process and define Building Block reuse strategy and reuse plan.

Your Team

The Project Management Team is a global team whose members work in a global environment to drive the development of the Ready Upgrade product family.

What You Will Do

• Performs Change- and Configuration Management (CCM) activities as per defined policies and procedures
• Contribute towards defining and updating the CCM Plan and report progress
• Drive the change request analysis with the related teams, summarize the results and prepare for decision  the change control bord
• Identify all configuration items for the family of products
• Support project teams to ensure work products are current, accurate and properly controlled
• Configuration items for products are available to the team as needed
• Ensure effective implementation of branching and merging strategy
• Support project teams on CCM related tool chain and version management
• Support release process to deliver software and hardware to different customers
• Supports the product development activity so that developers and integrators have appropriate workspaces to build and test their work
• Ensure that the CCM environment facilitates product review, and change and defect tracking activities
• Perform CCM audit and assist in implementation of the audit recommendations.
• Assist in management, maintenance and automation of CCM tools
• Analyse configuration issues and propose appropriate resolutions
• Analyse and provide the reuse status of configuration items
• Other duties as defined by supervisor

What You Need

• REQUIRED Specific Knowledge, Expertise, Coursework
  • Good interpersonal skills and can interface with peers, leadership, and customer teams.
  • Hands on experience on change and configuration management activities for a multiple customer product.
  • Knowledge of software and hardware versioning.
  • Knowledge of software build and configuration tools.
  • Knowledge of software and hardware development and release processes.
  • Self starter and self motivated.
  • Exemplary English verbal and written communications skills.

• REQUIRED Degree and/or Training, including specifically defined educational equivalent
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or equivalent; Master’s degree

• REQUIRED Certifications/Licenses
  • None required.
  • Functional safety and/or ASPICE certifications are not required but would be beneficial to the role.

• REQUIRED Specific Prior Experiences
  • 4+ years of experience working with embedded software or hardware.
  • 2+ years of configuration management experience.

• REQUIRED Physical Demands
  • This position requires the ability to use a computer and other common office equipment
  • Ability to travel by airlines is required
• Tools:
  • Change Request tool: IBM ALM
  • SCM version control tools : Bitbucket, Perforce, GIT
  • SCM Continuous Integration tools : Jenkins
  • Ticketing tools: ELVIS, Jira
  • Build Tools  : Bitbucket and ANT
  • Scripting Languages : Shell Script, Python

What is Nice to Have

• ASPICE knowledge
• Experience Software release tools such as Artifactory, Conan
• Requirements expertise
• Automotive software release experience
• Customer focus, able to plan and organize, efficient, flexible / adaptable, reliable, motivated
• Listening skills, teamwork skills, problem solving skills, communi