About Us
We are the independent expert in assurance and risk management. Driven by our purpose, to safeguard life, property, and the environment, we empower our customers and their stakeholders with facts and reliable insights so that critical decisions can be made with confidence.
As a trusted voice for many of the world's most successful organizations, we use our knowledge to advance safety and performance, set industry benchmarks, and inspire and invent solutions to tackle global transformations.
About Energy Systems
We help customers navigate the complex transition to a decarbonized and more sustainable energy future. We do this by assuring that energy systems work safely and effectively, using solutions that are increasingly digital. We also help industries and governments to navigate the many complex, interrelated transitions taking place globally and regionally, in the energy industry.
About The Role
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.
What we offer
- Flexible work arrangements for better work-life balance
- Generous Paid Leaves (Annual, Sick, Compassionate, Local Public, Marriage, Maternity, Paternity, Medical leave)
- Medical benefits ( Insurance and Annual Health Check-up)
- Pension and Insurance Policies (Group Term Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance)
- Training and Development Assistance (Training Sponsorship, On-The-Job Training, Training Programme)
- Additional Benefits (Long Service Awards, Mobile Phone Reimbursement)
- Company bonus/Profit share.
*Benefits may vary based on position, tenure/contract/grade level*
DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.
About You
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of relevant experience in solution engineering, implementation, platform configuration, or technical delivery, including 3+ years leading teams, workstreams, or implementation programs.
- Strong background delivering customer solutions in low-code, hybrid, SaaS, or enterprise platform environments.
- Demonstrated experience translating customer requirements into reliable platform configurations and implementation patterns.
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing, validation planning, customer delivery quality, and implementation governance.
- Understanding of APIs, workflows, business rules, data loads, and integration patterns.
- Experience using AI-assisted tools or automation to improve implementation delivery, testing, or documentation.
What Is Preferred
- Experience in product-led or platform-based organizations.
- Familiarity with low-code or hybrid development environments.
- Experience supporting interoperability across multiple systems or enterprise platforms.
- Background in energy, infrastructure, or other technically complex industries.
- Experience leading customer implementation teams in globally distributed environments.
- Experience scaling repeatable implementation practices across multiple customers, business units, regions, or delivery teams.
Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices. 
