Functional Engineer PSRA

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Date: Dec 3, 2025

Location: Pune, IN

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

Job Purpose

The Functional Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and implementing IT solutions and processes that align with global IT and security standards to meet R&D business needs in the formulation management domain. This domain manages AkzoNobel’s formulations and makes sure they are ready for manufacturing.

Their role involves translating business requirements into detailed specifications and implementing those, coordinating with Agile DevOps teams or project management structures, and ensuring high-quality change execution and testing. They actively participate in preparing and executing changes, collaborating with internal partners and external consultants, and may also help resolve urgent incidents and improve business processes.

Key Accountabilities

The Functional Engineer translates business requirements into clear, detailed designs and high-quality change specifications and implements them or oversee implementation. They ensure all standards are followed and solutions are stable, sustainable, and compliant with architectural and security principles.

The Engineer is responsible for testing, including developing test scripts, coordinating business sign-off, and ensuring timely and proper validation of changes and releases. They perform incident management by analyzing issues, conducting root cause analysis, deploying fixes, and ensuring swift resolution of problems. Additionally, the Engineer supports process improvement and project delivery by monitoring performance, collaborating with architects, and managing specific project deliverables for efficient execution.

Experience

PSRA IA sub-domain specific knowledge

Profile

Interest in understanding business processes, requirements and functionality and how this can be realized in a software application
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with inquisitive approach
Willingness to proactively engage with business users to fully understand needs
Ability to apply critical thinking to find best solutions and identify impacts, risks and dependencies
Ambition to learn and adapt to new technologies and tools
A proactive attitude and a passion for software development & delivery
Ability to coordinate specifications and delivery of work
Strong teamwork and collaboration skills but with ability to work independently

Functional knowledge

Knowledge of transport regulations
Knowledge of product classification and labelling regulations (like GHS)
Knowledge regulatory compliance requirements
Familiar with PLM processes
Cross-application processes

In-depth experience of regulatory tooling:

Sphera Intelligent Authoring (IA)
- Creating and maintain data objects like algorithms, forms
Sphera Productivity Suite (PS)
- Defining rules, exports and requests
- System integration with SAP and other applications such as ASD ProductVision, Labeling
Participated in IA & PS software upgrades
Architected the integration and application landscape
Agile development process using Azure DevOps, git, pipelines and other Azure Services
Microsoft SQL databases

Additional pro’s:

Experience in applications management: Windows Server, Services, .Net, REST APIs, Events, Scripting such as JS, PowerShell
Experience with Azure cloud-based solutions
Experience in modeling notations such as BPMN, ERD, ArchiMate, UML
Batchelor or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or related field study

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 50364

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