Head of Section of Solutions Engineering

Location

Chennai, India

Business

Energy Systems

Position type

Full Time

Contract type

Permanent Employee

Job ID

7688

Overview

About us

We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.

As a trusted voice for many of the world’s most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.

About Energy Systems

We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.

About the role

The Head of Section - Solutions Engineering is responsible for leading the solutions engineering function that translates business, customer, and subject matter expert needs into scalable platform implementations within Digital & Transformation. This includes leading configuration-first delivery across low-code, hybrid, and API-enabled platform environments while ensuring implementation quality, repeatability, and production readiness.

This role sits within the Digital & Transformation organization, helping to advance how DNV performs Due Diligence, Verification & Assurance, and Renewables Certification work across Energy Systems.

Working in close partnership with Product leadership, Data & AI Engineering, Application Engineering, and global digital teams, this role translates customer requirements into reliable, production-ready platform configurations. The Head of Section - Solution Engineering sets clear standards for implementation quality, stability, validation, and reusable configuration patterns across low-code and hybrid development environments.

This role leads a team focused on configuring the platform for customer-specific and business-specific use cases using existing platform capabilities wherever possible. When a requirement cannot be met through configuration, the role ensures it is clearly assessed, documented, and translated into a product or engineering backlog item for prioritization, including the business context, implementation impact, and recommended path forward.

The Head of Section - Solutions Engineering plays a key role in scaling repeatable implementation practices, improving delivery velocity through AI-assisted configuration methods, and strengthening knowledge transfer between implementation and engineering teams.

This role is based at our DNV office in Chennai, India. Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Engineering Leadership & Delivery

Lead solution engineering across customer and internal platform implementation programs, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery of configured platform solutions.

Translate requirements into scalable, maintainable, and production-ready platform configurations.

Establish clear ownership, accountability, and delivery discipline across implementation activities.

Ensure program-specific configurations are validated through structured User Acceptance Testing and implementation quality reviews.

Modern Development & AI-Enabled Configuration

Drive adoption of AI-assisted methods for requirements analysis, workflow configuration, test case generation, documentation, and implementation reuse across low-code and hybrid development environments.

Define how solution engineering teams use AI-enabled tools to improve speed, consistency, and documentation quality.

Ensure strong implementation fundamentals, configuration quality, and peer review practices remain central alongside AI acceleration.

Partner with engineering teams to turn mature AI capabilities into reusable implementation patterns.

Platform Configuration & Interoperability

Oversee configuration patterns, business rules, workflows, data loads, and platform setup needed to support customer use cases.

Collaborate across Product, engineering teams, advisory regions, and digital teams to support interoperability across core systems.

Promote reusable implementation patterns, templates, prompts, and configuration standards.

Guide the appropriate balance between customer-specific configuration and requests that require platform enhancement.

Organization & Capability Development

Lead and evolve a solution engineering team with clear roles, implementation standards, and delivery expectations.

Build, develop, and retain high-performing implementation and platform configuration talent.

Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivery excellence.

Implementation Governance, Quality & Security

Ensure implementations follow platform governance, security, data handling, and access control standards.

Maintain traceability between requirements, configuration decisions, validation evidence, and production release readiness.

Establish consistent implementation review practices to reduce delivery risk and improve repeatability across programs.

Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, and Global Shared Services teams to ensure implementation practices align with enterprise standards.

What we offer

Flexible work arrangements for better work-life balance

Generous Paid Leaves (Annual, Sick, Compassionate, Local Public, Marriage, Maternity, Paternity, Medical leave)

Medical benefits ( Insurance and Annual Health Check-up)

Pension and Insurance Policies (Group Term Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance)

Training and Development Assistance (Training Spo