Configuration Manager - COSMOS

About the Company
Embitel Technologies is a Volkswagen AG (VW) Group Company. VW is a German multinational automotive manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. VW is one of the world’s largest automaker by sales. VW sold 10.9 million vehicles in 2019. The group comprises of 12 brands from seven European Countries: Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Bentley, Ducati (motorcycles), Skoda, SEAT, Scania, MAN and Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

About CARIAD (Car, I Am Digital)

The automotive industry is in disruption. As a company, CARIAD is playing a part in multiple large trends at the same time: electrification, automation, and digitalization. The new name builds on changing customer needs. Automotive customers are demanding more comfort, more safety, more sustainability, and more connectivity. With its software platforms and digital features, CARIAD is developing solutions and products that will turn the car into a smart companion to accompany customers into the future with continuous updates and new digital features, even years later. The new company name reflects this zeitgeist: ‘Car, I Am Digital’. The brand profile can be found on its new website https://cariad.technology.

Currently, around 4,000 employees are working at CARIAD on the digital transformation of the car. CARIAD is working intensively on the software and technology platform for Premium Platform Electric (PPE). The first vehicles based on PPE will be the electric Porsche Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron. At the core of CARIAD is the development of the unified and scalable software and technology platform E³ 2.0 for all Group brands. E³ stands for ‘end to end electronics architecture’. The new software and technology platform is built from scratch and will be used first at the end of 2024 in Artemis, the lighthouse project of Audi. As of 2026, E³ 2.0 is due to be scaled by the Volkswagen brand with Trinity in the volume segment.

About our Group

CARIAD COE (Centre of Excellence) is setup in Bangalore, India working exclusively with CARIAD and associated VW groups with the focus on development of ‘VW.OS”. The areas of work involve development of platform components such as firmware, boot loaders, AUTOSAR, Linux/QNX BSP, Service oriented architecture-based middleware components.

Job Description:

Job Title: Configuration Manager

Experience: 7 to 10 years

Grade: A4/ B3

Team: COSMOS
No of positions: 1

Job Overview:

We are looking for a highly motivated Configuration manager to lead and govern Configuration  management activities for the COSMOS Project. The Configuration Manager is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving Configuration Management (CM) practices across products, projects, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs). The role ensures the integrity, traceability, reproducibility, and auditability of all configuration items throughout the software development and release lifecycle.

The Configuration Manager establishes CM strategies, manages baselines, controls configuration changes, ensures compliance with organizational and Automotive SPICE requirements, and works closely with Development, QA, DevOps, Release Engineering, Architecture, and Quality teams to maintain consistent and controlled delivery processes. This role is critical in ensuring end-to-end traceability from change requests through releases and supporting compliance, audit readiness, and long-term product maintenance.

Responsibilities:

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• Define and maintain Configuration Management Plans (CMPs) for projects and ARTs.
• Establish CM strategy, scope, governance model, operating cadence, and audit schedules.
• Define configuration item taxonomy, naming conventions, versioning standards, and approval workflows.
• Ensure CM activities align with release management and PI planning cycles.
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• Identify, classify, and maintain configuration items including software, documentation, test assets, build configurations, environment templates, release artifacts, and compliance evidence.
• Maintain accurate and accessible CI registers and ownership information.
• Conduct periodic reviews to ensure completeness and accuracy of configuration records.
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• Own the branching strategy (mainline, release branches, hotfix) in line with release cadence and rollback needs.
• Enforce tagging standards (signedtags where required), semantic/agreed versioning, and provenance metadata (commit/build/time).
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• Establish baseline types, approval criteria, and governance checkpoints.
• Coordinate creation, review, approval, and maintenance of design, test, code, and release baselines.
• Maintain baseline registers and ensure controlled evolution of baselined artifacts.
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• Ensure build pipelines generate traceable and reproducible software artifacts.
• Govern artifact repository structure, retention policies, immutability, and archival mechanisms.
• Conduct rebuild verification activities to validate release reproducibility.
• Manage SBOMs, checksums, and software integrity controls where applicable.
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• Integrate Configuration Management processes with Change Request and defect management workflows.
• Ensure all configuration changes are traceable to approved requests.
• Govern runtime parameters, feature flags, configuration files, and environment-specific settings.
• Support compliance with Automotive SPICE SUP.10 requirements.
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• Maintain end-to-end configuration traceability covering:
  • Change Requests
  • Defects
  • Commits
  • Builds
  • Artifacts
  • Environment Configurations
  • Release Baselines
  • Compliance Evidence
• Create CM dashboards, metrics, reports, and compliance status updates.
• Identify risks, gaps, and corrective actions.
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• Define and monitor backup and recovery strategies for repositories and artifact stores.
• Ensure long-term retention and preservation of release evidence and baselines.
• Support legal, regulatory, and organizational archival requirements.
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• Collaborate with Release Engineering during release preparation and deployment activities.
• Validate completeness and traceability of release evidence packages.
• Ensure successful repository synchronization with external stakeholders and customer organizations.
• Support release reviews such as SRR and RCC.
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• Support internal and external audits, assessments, and Automotive SPICE evaluations.
• Address audit findings through corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Drive automation, standardization, and process improvements to enhance CM effectiveness.
• Improve documentation quality and reduce operational inefficiencies.
• undefinedRequired Skills:7+ years of experience in project management Configuration Management. Strong knowledge of Configuration Management principles: Configuration Planning Configuration Identification Configuration Control Configuration Status Accounting Configuration Audits Expertise in baseline management and configuration governance. Understanding of release management and change control processes. Experience in Automotive SPICE, particularly SUP.10 and related support processes. Strong understanding of end-to-end traceability requirements. Advanced Git expertise: Branching strategies Tagging standards Protected branches Cherry-pick and revert practices Signed tags CI/CD platforms: Jenkins GitLab CI/CD Pipeline governance Artifact repository management and software provenance practices. Jira (DevStack/VWIF) administration and reporting. Confluence documentation and template management. Experience with: SBOM generation tools (e.g., CycloneDX) Software integrity verification Secret scanning and security compliance tooling Knowledge of Java-based service ecosystems. Familiarity with Maven and Gradle build systems. Understanding of dependency and version management. Experience managing environment configurations, feature flags, and secret stores. Basic understanding of observability concepts including logs, metrics, and health monitoring. Strong analytical and detail-oriented mindset. Excellent organizational and documentation skills. Ability to work effectively across development, QA, architecture, release, and quality teams. Strong stakeholder management and facilitation capabilities. Ability to make sound decisions during release freezes, hotfix scenarios, and critical production situations. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
•    Nice-to-have:•        Experience in automotive, IoT, or large-scale enterprise systems•        PMP, Scrum Master or similar project management certification•        Exposure to cloud technologies and infrastructure as code  

Working with Embitel
• Freedom to challenge norms, make mistakes, learn and grow
• There is no ‘I’ in word ‘Team’ and no hierarchy at Embitel
• Employees of Embitel are partners of our excellence and growth. And they are at the core of
organization’s Mission and Vision

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