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Transform the everyday with us!

Siemens Smart Infrastructure Electrification & Automation is shaping the future of power distribution by combining decades of engineering excellence with cutting-edge digital technology. Having successfully transformed and modernized our development capabilities, we are now entering the next phase of our journey — scaling delivery, professionalizing strategic roadmaps, completing cloudification initiatives, and embedding artificial intelligence into our business and engineering practices. We are seeking a forward-looking leader to drive innovation, ensure scalability, and deliver measurable business impact across our technology and application landscape. 

We are looking for a Head of Innovation and Development. This position will be based in Raleigh NC.

You’ll make a difference with:  

Innovation & Strategy 

• Define, evolve, and implement the innovation and development roadmap in alignment with business strategy. 
• Identify and incubate emerging technologies with high potential business value. 
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on digital innovation and transformation opportunities. 

Scaled Delivery & Governance/Security 

• Expand delivery capacity to meet growing business demands through optimized resourcing, governance, and portfolio management. 
• Establish and manage critical metrics, prioritization frameworks, and standard methodologies to ensure secure, predictable, high-quality results. 
• Drive an agile, product-oriented culture across the development function. 

Cloudification & Platform Modernization 

• Lead the completion of the on-premises data center migration to cloud-based infrastructure. 
• Lead all aspects of the modernization and cloudification of the existing application landscape, ensuring scalability, security, and cost efficiency. 
• Partner with global IT and product teams to harmonize platforms and standardize architecture. 

Artificial Intelligence & Data Enablement 

• Translate AI strategy into actionable roadmaps, delivering enterprise-ready use cases that create measurable business value. 
• Embed AI and data-driven decision-making into operations, engineering, and customer-facing processes. 
• Build and cultivate an ecosystem for experimentation, prototyping, and scaled adoption of sophisticated technologies. 

Leadership & Talent Development 

• Inspire, mentor, and grow a diverse team of innovators, developers, and technologists across onshore and offshore models. 
• Champion a culture of collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning. 
• Ensure strong succession planning, knowledge retention, and workforce readiness for the future of digital transformation. 

Partner Engagement & Change Leadership 

• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders across Engineering, Product Management, Business Excellence, IT, and Operations. 
• Champion transparent communication and proactive organizational change to drive adoption of new platforms and processes. 
• Continuously evaluate demand requests to enhance value and resource optimization. 

You’ll win us over by having the following qualifications:  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or STEM field
• 8+ years of experience with the following:
  • Leadership & Business Acumen: Validated leadership in scaling development and innovation functions, strong knowledge of agile delivery, governance, and portfolio management, and exceptional communication and collaborator management skills with a track record of driving transformation across global, multi-functional teams. 
  • Cloud & DevOps Engineering: Deep expertise in full-stack development methodologies, cloud infrastructure, platform modernization, cloud-based deployments, networking, secure cloud architecture (AWS or Azure), containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and environment management. 
  • Enterprise System Integration: Deep expertise in enterprise systems and experience with integrating SAP and Salesforce. 
  • AI/ML Strategy & Implementation: Demonstrated success in advancing AI/ML strategies into deployed business use cases, along with hands-on experience designing, integrating, or leading AI-driven solutions. 
  • API & Backend Development: Proficiency in building and maintaining APIs, particularly with Python and FastAPI. 
  • Front-End Development & UI/UX Design: Experience with modern UI frameworks like React and Angular, and the ability to design user-friendly, modern interfaces with proficiency in tools like Figma. 
• Ability to travel 10-20% 
• Legally authorized to work in the United States on a continual and permanent basis without company sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications:

• Applications: Experience with applications within Siemens’ ecosystem (e.g., SAP, Salesforce.com, Product Configurators, CAD/CAE tools, Siemens NX/Teamcenter). 
• Technical Expertise: Broad knowledge of programming languages, frameworks, and emerging digital technologies. 
• Legacy System Integration: Experience with VB, .NET, or C# for integrating with older systems. 
• Vector Databases/Embedding Stores: Familiarity with technologies like Chroma, FAISS, or Pinecone. 
• On-Prem AI Deployments: Experience with secure, on-premise AI solutions such as Ollama or RAG-based systems. 
• Windows Terminal Server Administration: Ability to administer and troubleshoot Windows Terminal Servers (including user sessions, performance optimization, and licensing).