Job Description
The role operates at the intersection of technology strategy, product discovery, domain driven design, and engineering execution, driving rapid experimentation, applied innovation, and technical excellence while respecting real world operational, security, and regulatory constraints. Success is measured by validated learning, speed to insight, and successful transition of ideas into core product organizations.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Innovation & Idea Incubation Leadership
- Own the endtoend lifecycle of idea incubation from problem discovery and hypothesis framing to prototyping, validation, and graduation or termination.
- Establish repeatable incubation frameworks using design thinking, Lean Startup, and experimentdriven development.
- Champion a culture of experimentation, learning velocity, and evidencebased decisionmaking in highambiguity environments.
- Ensure earlystage experimentation incorporates domain realities from Buildings, Security, and Industrial contexts, avoiding innovation that cannot transition to real deployments.
Technical & Architectural Leadership- Provide technical direction across incubated initiatives, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and productionready.
- Guide teams in selecting and applying emerging technologies including cloudnative platforms, SaaS, AI/ML, GenAI, IoT, and edge computing.
- Ensure architectural decisions explicitly address nonfunctional requirements such as availability, scalability, security, compliance, and operational resilience.
- Partner with Architecture and SRE leaders to ensure smooth transition of incubated solutions into enterprisescale delivery models and longlived product platforms.
DomainDriven Engineering Leadership
- Ensure engineering teams deeply understand and design for domainspecific constraints and requirements, including:
- Buildings (commercial buildings, campuses, multisite operations, 247 uptime expectations)
- Security (cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory compliance, securebydesign principles)
- Industrial / OT (manufacturing, process industries, legacy systems, safetycritical environments)
- Drive domaindriven design practices so incubated solutions reflect real operational workflows, asset models, and system boundaries.
- Validate that domain requirements are explicitly captured and tested during incubation, not deferred to later product teams.
Buildings Domain Knowledge
- Has led engineering innovation for software platforms that integrate with Building Management Systems (BMS) such as HVAC, lighting, energy, fire, and lifesafety systems.
- Ensure incubated solutions support multisite and multitenant building deployments and can scale reliably beyond pilot environments.
- Drive interoperability across heterogeneous OT devices, protocols, and vendor ecosystems common in building environments.
- Ensure experimentation and pilots account for continuous operations and minimal disruption expectations in live buildings.
Security & Privacy Knowledge
- Own securitybydesign and privacybydesign accountability across all incubated software initiatives.
- Ensure security requirements align with industrial and OT security standards (e.g., ANSI/ISA62443) and enterprise security policies.
- Require and oversee:
- Threat modeling and secure architecture reviews
- Strong authentication, authorization, and rolebased access control
- Secure handling of credentials, secrets, and certificates
- Audit logging and traceability for securityrelevant actions
- Ensure compliance with data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and completion of required Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) prior to graduation of incubated solutions.
- Partner closely with Security, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure incubated ideas are viable in regulated environments.
Industrial & OT Engineering Knowledge
- Led incubation of software solutions for industrial and OTcentric environments, including manufacturing, energy, and process industries.
- Ensure platforms can integrate with industrial control systems (ICS) such as SCADA, PLCs, edge devices, and legacy systems.
- Drive architectures that support deterministic performance, highfrequency telemetry, and nearrealtime decision support where required.
- Balance innovation speed with production continuity, safety, and reliability expectations in live industrial environments.
- Ensure solutions are designed for long asset lifecycles, staged rollouts, and controlled upgrade windows typical of industrial customers.
Organization & Talent Leadership
- Build, mentor, and retain highperforming engineering leaders and senior technologists.
- Develop engineering managers and tech leads capable of balancing experimentation speed with technical rigor and domain responsibility.
- Foster an inclusive, highaccountability culture emphasizing ownership, craftsmanship, and engineering judgment.
Business & Stakeholder Partnership
- Collaborate with Product, UX, Data, OT, and Business leaders to align incubated ideas with strategic priorities and domain realities.
- Translate technical and domain insights into compelling narratives for senior leadership.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on innovation strategy, platform evolution, and technology investment decisions.
Execution & Governance
- Define success metrics for incubation including validated learning, domain readiness, and transition viability.
- Ensure disciplined execution through lightweight governance, clear decision points, and risk transparency.
- Own budget, capacity planning, and vendor strategy for innovation initiatives.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in senior engineering leadership roles.
- Proven track record leading innovation labs, incubators, or advanced development teams.
- Strong technical depth in modern software architectures and distributed systems.
- Demonstrated success moving ideas from concept to validated product or scaled platform in complex, realworld domains.
Preferred Experience & Skills
- Experience with Buildings, Industrial, SaaS, or platformbased businesses.
- Exposure to OT environments, cybersecurity, or regulated systems.
- Experience with AI/ML, GenAI, data platforms, IoT, or edge ecosystems.
- Familiarity with Lean Startup and design thinking methodologies.
- Exceptional ability to operate under ambiguity and drive clarity through experimentation.
Strong storytelling, influence, and executive communication skills.
About Us
Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments powered by our Honeywell Forge software that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.
