Technical Lead
Expleo Group
Work location
Onsite at Valeo's Chennai premises.
Working pattern
5 days per week, Valeo site calendar and hours
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities
- Allocate and priorities daily work in line with Valeo's batches, by engineer capacity and scene type.
- Track productivity, throughput and quality against agreed targets: scenes per engineer per day, accepted scenes per week, first-pass acceptance, rework rate and turnaround.
- Act as first point of contact for Valeo's Project Manager and Annotation / Data Lead. Raise guideline clarifications and route tool issues, with their time impact, to Valeo's tool owner.
- Publish the daily status and weekly performance report and maintain the productivity and quality dashboard.
- Lead onboarding, training, calibration on gold scenes, guideline adherence and coaching of the team.
- Run the daily stand-up. Take part in weekly reviews and in monthly or milestone reviews with Valeo.
- During the pilot, measure the baseline (time per scene, scenes per engineer, QC effort), identify bottlenecks and propose process improvements and staged volume increases.
- Manage L1 escalations and maintain the issue, dependency and clarification logs. Flag changes in scope, guidelines or volume for change control.
- 10–12 years in IT or data services, including at least 3 years leading data annotation, data labelling or data QA teams.
- Experience setting up and tracking productivity and quality KPIs, and reporting to customer stakeholders.
- Strong customer-facing communication; comfortable working onsite in a client environment.
- Advanced Excel or reporting skills for trackers and dashboards.
- Automotive ADAS or autonomous-driving perception data (camera, radar, sensor fusion).
- Experience with Xtreme1 or similar tools
- Quality frameworks: sampling plans, defect severity models, root-cause analysis.