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.
