Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for packaging, corrugating, sheeting, and paper-converting industries. The Digital Innovation Software Engineering Leader leads software engineering development, manages a software engineering team, drives secure and compliant delivery, and advances organizational capabilities through stakeholder engagement, modern practices, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Sets policy and drives adherence to standards, best practices & modern tech/tooling for cloud & edge/OT software systems development, including change management. Continuously monitors and reduces technical debt
- Leads activities that make security and privacy integral to development processes
- Identifies and manages the resources necessary for all stages of software development projects
- Ensures technical, financial, quality, performance, scalability, and documentation targets are met
- Forms, maintains and leads workgroups and individuals to achieve organizational objectives
- Sets quality, performance, and capability targets aligned with organizational goals
- Monitors performance and working relationships, provides feedback to address individual issues
- Nurtures skill development in line with team and personal goals
- Adjusts workload, targets and team capacity to support individual growth
- Actively participates in formal processes such as forecasting, budgeting, recruitment, reward, promotion and disciplinary procedures
- Plans and manages the acquisition and deployment of resources to meet specific needs and ongoing demand
- Defines and manages the implementation of resourcing processes and tools
- Advises on available resourcing options and tailors approaches to meet requirements
- Engages with external parties in support of resourcing plans
- Monitors effectiveness & efficiency of onshore & offshore resourcing processes and drives continuous improvements
- Translates communications and stakeholder engagement strategies into clearly defined activities and deliverables
- Acts as the accountable point of contact for developing and maintaining stakeholder engagement including adoption strategies and plans
- Ensures productive relationships between stakeholders and high-ownership engineers
- Captures and disseminates technical and business information
- Identifies and manages the communications and collaborative relationship needs of stakeholder groups
- Seeks out, identifies, proposes, and initiates capability improvement activities within the organization
- Plans and manages the evaluation or assessment of organizational capabilities
- Takes action to exploit opportunities to deliver measurable impacts upon operational effectiveness
- Develops solutions and leads change initiatives, encompassing communication and implementation activities
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in computer science, STEM or equivalent experience
- * 8–10+ years of working experience in the software engineering discipline
- * 5+ years of experience with Industrial IoT, distributed and/or event-driven systems
- * 5+ years' experience with major cloud hyper scalers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- * 2–3+ years of experience supervising and directing, leading, or managing direct reports
- * 1+ year of experience managing a distributed/remote and international team
- * Experience with sustainable agentic development practices and associated change management
- * Experience with modern containerization of applications and automated cloud deployment tooling & templates
- * Experience integrating open-source technologies in a commercial environment
- * Proven track record of delivering production-quality software in iterative environments
- * Experience with value-driven development, discovery-oriented practices, and hypothesis-based execution
- * Experience mentoring and developing engineers, including coaching for growth, performance, and autonomy
- * Experience supporting or building high-throughput teams leveraging modern practices such as agentic development, CI/CD, trunk-based development, and automated testing
- * Experience collaborating in product-led environments with product, design, and business stakeholders
- * Experience creating or maintaining a culture of psychological safety, team accountability, autonomy, and continuous improvement
- * Experience with data management (SQL, NoSQL, Big Data), analytics, business intelligence and/or data science related technologies
- * Familiarity with Portfolio and Project Management tools
- * Skillfully navigates intricate and conflicting information to solve challenging problems effectively
- * Capably articulates vision and strategies in ways that inspire team motivation and engagement
- * Consistently follows through and ensures that commitments are reliably met by self and others
- * Effectively conveys clear and adaptable messages tailored to diverse audiences across various communication channels
- * Makes sound, timely decisions that keep organizational momentum and progress on track
- * Leverages deep understanding of the business environment to drive organizational objectives forward
- * Show leadership courage, challenge stakeholders as appropriate and demonstrate conflict resolution skills
- * Finds and promotes new and creative ways to enhance organizational effectiveness
- * Synthesize clear concise details from highly ambiguous concepts / tasks
- * Remains productive and confident even when facing uncertainty or unclear directions
- * Continuously refines processes, enhancing productivity and efficiency across tasks
- * Recognizes future opportunities and proactively translates insights into impactful strategies
- * Establishes a work environment that motivates and energizes team members to excel
- * Consistently delivers reliable outcomes despite challenging or demanding circumstances
- * Thoughtfully prioritizes and organizes tasks to align effectively with organizational goals
- * Quickly adapts and learns from experiences, both successes and setbacks, for ongoing improvement
- * Build and maintain strong relationships to consistently deliver solutions valued by customers
- * Actively engages with others, fostering teamwork to achieve shared objectives
- Supervisory responsibility for multiple software development engineers, including direct reports
- The employee must be able to correctly wear and use any Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required by the employer when visiting a manufacturing facility
- This is a regular, full-time position with the understanding that a regular workweek will require extended days and hours as needed to meet business needs
- Moderate domestic (vendors, user, and customer site visits) and occasional international travel required as part of this role
- The employee sits at a desk and uses a computer for prolonged periods of time. Performing the role frequently uses close vision, speech, hearing, and dexterity to operate office equipment. The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
Benefits
- An additional yearly incentive plan greater than 10% of salary.
- The employee may be remotely based.
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