Digital Innovation Software Engineering Leader

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

Requirements:

• • 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