Senior Technical Architect
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Job Description
Senior Technical Architect
Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Own the software update and device lifecycle stack for connected edge products — robust A/B and image-based update mechanisms, rollback safety, fleet-scale rollout, and long-lifecycle maintenance across multiple product variants.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust OTA update mechanisms — A/B (dual-slot) updates, image-based updates (OSTree class), delta updates and container/application-level updates.
  • Guarantee power-fail-safe, atomic updates with verified rollback and health-check driven commit logic.
  • Integrate update flows with secure boot and signing infrastructure so only authenticated artefacts are installed.
  • Build and maintain update agents, update servers/backends integration, and campaign/rollout tooling including staged and canary rollouts.
  • Manage partition layouts, bootloader slot switching, filesystem strategy and storage wear considerations.
  • Define device lifecycle management flows — enrolment, identity, configuration management, telemetry, remote diagnostics and decommissioning.
  • Support long-lifecycle maintenance: LTS branching, CVE monitoring and security patch delivery across fielded variants.
  • Build failure-injection and update regression testing including interrupted-update and downgrade scenarios.

Skill Requirements

  • 8–10 years in embedded systems with strong ownership of update/lifecycle infrastructure.
  • Hands-on with A/B update schemes and at least one framework such as RAUC, SWUpdate, Mender, OSTree/greenboot or Android A/B.
  • Strong C and Python; shell scripting; comfort with build systems (Yocto) and image composition.
  • Bootloader and partition-level knowledge — slot selection, boot counters, rollback protection.
  • Signed-artefact workflows and integration with PKI/signing services.
  • Fleet-scale thinking — bandwidth, staged rollout, failure rate monitoring, recovery paths.
  • CI/CD pipeline experience for embedded artefact build, sign and publish.

Other Requirements

  • Cloud IoT device management platforms (AWS IoT, Azure IoT Hub or equivalent).
  • Container-based edge deployment (Docker, Podman, balena-style workflows).
  • Filesystem expertise — ext4, F2FS, UBIFS, SquashFS, dm-verity.
  • Regulatory-driven update obligations (EU CRA, IEC 62443 patch management).
  • Telemetry and observability pipelines for fielded devices.
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At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.