Senior Design Manager - Hitachi Rail GTS India

Location:

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Job ID:

R0129318

Date Posted:

2026-05-08

Company Name:

HITACHI INDIA PVT. LTD

Profession (Job Category):

Other

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Design Manager

Designation: Senior

Company: Hitachi Rail GTS India

Location: Noida, India

Salary: As per Industry

Company Overview:
Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signalling, Mobility, on-board Solution, Service & maintenance, digital technology, ticketing, and turnkey solutions. By pioneering digital transformation, Hitachi Rail ensures seamless, sustainable transport for passengers, customers, and communities.
- Workforce : 24,000 employees
- Footprint : 51 countries

Hitachi Rail in India
We are an integrated group providing Digital, Green, Sustainable, and Innovative technology solutions for public transport systems. With over 24 years of expertise in delivering Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) systems, we have:

• Successfully implemented the largest Metro AFC Upgrade Project in India.

• Established a Global Engineering Competency Centre (GCC) for AFC System in India.

• Developed systems capable of handling millions of ticketing transactions per day.

• Become a global leader in public transport solutions through innovation and engineering excellence.

Position Overview:

The Sr. Design Manager– Ticketing & Tolling Solutions is the technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and validating the end-to-end architecture of ticketing and tolling systems across Metro, Bus, Rail, and Tolling (ETC/FASTag) environments. This role ensures solutions are secure, scalable, interoperable, and compliant, spanning field sale devices, backend platforms, payments, and settlement systems.

Job Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Ensure the analysis of the compliance between customer requirements and product/solution capabilities during the tender phase

2. During the tender phase, evaluate the internal effort, costs and timeline corresponding to the proposed solution.

• Identify and track the technical risks and opportunities

• Ensure the consistency between the designed and delivered solution and the customer requirements during the project phase

• Lead the system design definition and specification phase, in strong and direct collaboration with the customer and third parties

3. Define the interfaces between Hitachi Rail solutions and the rest of the ecosystem (customer and third party solutions)
4. Own and drive the end-to-end architecture for enterprise-grade Ticketing and Tolling systems, ensuring scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
5. Serve as the final technical authority for overall solution design, architecture decisions, and change governance across the program lifecycle.

6. Lead the design, integration, and standardization of field devices, including:

• Fare Sale & Access Devices: Validators, Automatic Gates, Ticket Vending Machines (TVMs), POS terminals, and Handheld Devices

• Tolling Devices: RFID Readers, Lane Controllers, and ANPR Camera Systems

7. Define and govern device-to-backend communication architecture, including protocols, offline operations, data buffering, retries, failover, and system recovery mechanisms.
8. Ensure full compliance with EMV®, PCI, PTS/DSS, CBT, ISO standards, Cyber Security and national tolling and mobility frameworks such as FASTag and other applicable regulatory mandates.
9. Oversee the design and operation of back-office platforms, including transaction processing, clearing & settlement, reconciliation, exception handling, and dispute management workflows.

10. Lead and facilitate architecture and design reviews with OEMs, System Integrators, Banks, Payment Networks, and Government / Transport Authorities.
11. Provide architectural and technical leadership during Factory and Site Acceptance Tests, pilot implementations, certifications, and large-scale production rollouts, ensuring performance, stability, and compliance.

Skills:

Domain & Technical Expertise
 

Mandatory
1. AFC / ETC system architecture
2. Ticketing & Tolling domain (Metro, Bus, Highway)
3. Sale & validation devices integration
4. Open-loop and closed-loop payment systems
5. IT Infrastructure seizing as per the RFP requirements
6. Cybersecurity, Security, compliance, and large-scale system integration
7. Design & Architecture Tools

• UML (Unified Modelling Language)

• Visio / Draw.io (Diagramming)

• C4 Model (Software architecture model)

• Enterprise Architect (Modelling)

Good to Have
1. C / C++ – Embedded and device-level understanding
2. C# / .NET – Backend / middleware exposure
3. Web Services & APIs – REST / SOAP
4. JSON / XML messaging, database & transaction lifecycle knowledge
5. OAuth2 / OpenID Connect (Authentication & Authorization) , JW Tokens, SSL/TLS Encryption, Keycloak (Identity & Access Management)
(Hands-on coding not mandatory, but strong technical understanding is required.)

Experience: 12+ Years

Education: 

• B.E./B.Tech (Electronics / Computer Science or equivalent)

• M.E./M.Tech preferred

• Certifications in Payments / EMV / Security are an advantage

Hitachi Values:

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to any factor that doesn’t impact your ability to do the job, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are proud of Japanese heritage, with our values expressed through the Hitachi Spirit:

• Wa – Harmony, Trust, Respect

• Makoto – Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

• Kaitakusha-Seishin – Pioneering Spirit, Challenge