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BRL-LDR-04 · Leadership & Board
Head – BARREL OS Platform
BARREL OS & Digital Pune / Hybrid · Hybrid 15–20 years · Leadership Board track
Lead BARREL OS, the operating system for energy businesses, as a product and a business. You own the product vision, engineering, adoption inside BARREL and the commercial growth of the platform with other energy companies.
Scope of work
- Set the product vision and roadmap for BARREL OS and its modules across finance, projects, assets, people and compliance.
- Lead product management, engineering, design, data and platform operations for BARREL OS.
- Integrate BARREL OS with PIP, the Project Manager app, the shop and the exchanges into one coherent platform.
- Drive adoption across every BARREL function, with clear usage and value metrics.
- Build the go-to-market for external customers: developers, EPC contractors, utilities and asset owners.
- Own platform reliability, security, privacy and compliance.
- Set the data architecture so that operational data from sites and SCADA flows into decision tools.
- Introduce AI features responsibly, with human review where decisions matter.
- Build the product and engineering organisation, culture and practices.
Technical description
- Modern web and cloud architecture: TypeScript, Node.js, React and Next.js, PostgreSQL, containerised deployment and CI/CD.
- Multi-tenant SaaS design, role-based access control and audit trails.
- Integration with SCADA, IoT and metering data, including IEC 61850 and Modbus sources through secure gateways.
- GST e-invoicing, statutory reporting and accounting integration required by Indian energy businesses.
- Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, CERT-In directions and ISO 27001 controls.
- Applied machine learning for forecasting, anomaly detection and document understanding, with model governance.
- Product analytics, experimentation and reliability engineering practices such as SLOs and incident review.
Commercial description
- Own the platform P&L, including internal cost allocation and external subscription revenue.
- Own the product and engineering budget and the cloud infrastructure cost.
- Define pricing and packaging for external customers.
- Measured on adoption, reliability, customer retention, revenue growth and productivity gains delivered inside BARREL.
- Work with business heads as customers and with external partners for integrations.
Skills required
- Leading product and engineering teams that ship enterprise software.
- Product sense for complex, workflow-heavy business users.
- Hands-on architectural judgement.
- Building a SaaS business from internal platform to external product.
- Understanding of energy operations, projects and finance workflows.
- Hiring and developing outstanding engineers and product managers.
- Clear communication of trade-offs to business leaders.
- Security and reliability leadership.
- Data-driven prioritisation.
Talent we look for
- Builder at heart who still reads code and reviews designs.
- Obsessed with the user's real workday, on site and in the office.
- Ships steadily and improves quickly from feedback.
- Raises the bar for every hire.
- Ambitious for BARREL OS to become the standard for energy businesses.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering; a master's or MBA is welcome.
- Fifteen or more years in software, with at least six leading product and engineering for an enterprise platform.
- Experience in energy, industrial or infrastructure software is a strong advantage.
- Track record of scaling a SaaS product to external customers.