Information Technology in Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab

Career

Information Technology in the Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL) consists of developing enterprise middleware/Internet technology solutions and applications for various Honeywell businesses worldwide. The group provides value by developing solutions that result in increased productivity — mainly in custom web application development, web interface, legacy applications, enterprise application integration, and information portals.

Honeywell gives motivated employees increased responsibilities. We consciously identify and develop employees from within to grow into tomorrow's leaders and managers. As a result, the typical employee enjoys a career with exponential growth, fueled by motivation, capabilities, and a desire to excel.

Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, Honeywell's key regional arm of excellence, has operations in Bangalore and Madurai, India; Shanghai and Beijing, China; Minneapolis, Minnesota and Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Singapore; and Brno in the Czech Republic. The Bangalore-based engineering and technology lab continuously enhances expertise in mission-critical technologies in the aerospace and controls domain.

The engineering and technology lab in Bangalore has more than 3,000 employees with world-class facilities with state-of the-art hardware, software and communication infrastructure.

Career Focus

A career in Information Technology with a focus in Corporate Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL) is an area integral to Honeywell. HTSL provides technology, product, and business solutions while meeting global standards of quality, innovation, and lifetime performance. Some of the applications include real-time process control, embedded real-time systems, system software, and engineering tools. Research teams explore advanced technologies and frontiers in software to support Honeywell units worldwide and develop new technology-based products.

The engineering services initiative aims to provide best-in-class product and component analysis, design, and prototyping in mechanical engineering, and total engineering capability in electronics hardware.

HTSL is ISO 9001 TickIT certified and operates at a SEI-CMM Level 5 maturity with robust systems in place. It uses Six Sigma and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) techniques to improve output in all areas. It recently earned PCMM Maturity Level 5 and was voted as one of the Top 10 Great Places to Work in a survey conducted by The Great Place to Work Institute, USA, and Business in 2004.

Career Path

Career paths within the Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab vary greatly. Engineers with graduate, postgraduate, doctoral, or management educational qualifications join HTSL as individual contributors in the software programming, testing, research & development, or analytics business units. After gaining considerable experience and having a favorable performance rating, they can choose to go into a leadership role for technology, people, or process within their respective domains. From there, they can continue to grow. Successful leaders and experts can ultimately become strategic leaders and chief engineers.

Individuals may also move horizontally across roles. People who are currently in the role of leaders can also start afresh as individual contributors in a new technical area, domain, or function. One example is of a Mechanical Engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology. He began his career as a Software Development Engineer in the Home & Building Controls (H&BC) business for Automation & Control Solutions (ACS). Within two years, he started leading a team of development engineers and later began leading entire project teams. His overall technical expertise in business and people management skills allowed him to become the head of the H&BC business that culminated in leading the entire ACS business unit at HTSL.