Software Engineering Team Lead - Industrial Automation & Robotics Platform

Software Engineering Team Lead - Industrial Automation & Robotics Platform

Location: Hamilton
Employment Status: Salary Full-Time
Function: Information Technology
Pay Range: ($120,642.00 - $150,803.00)
Target Bonus: 15.0%
Req ID: 29997

Role Summary

We are seeking a hands-on Software Engineering Team Lead to lead the development, support, and continuous improvement of an industrial automation platform that orchestrates machine operations, robotic workflows, and operator-facing applications. This role combines technical leadership, software architecture, and operational ownership while remaining actively involved in design, coding, troubleshooting, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers through coaching, technical guidance, and code reviews.
• Establish engineering standards, development best practices, and coding guidelines.
• Drive architecture, technical design, modernization initiatives, and project execution.
• Design, develop, and maintain applications using C#, .NET Framework 4.8, .NET Standard 2.0, and .NET 6+.
• Lead integrations between host software, robotics systems, PLCs, machine controllers, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Provide technical leadership during production incidents and critical system outages.
• Lead root cause investigations using application logs, machine logs, controller diagnostics, and telemetry data.
• Drive testing, quality, release readiness, observability, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with Controls, QA, Manufacturing, Operations, and Product teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with 2+ years in a lead, senior, or technical leadership role.
• Strong C# and object-oriented design experience.
• Strong experience with .NET Framework and modern .NET platforms.
• Experience leading software projects and mentoring engineers.
• Expertise in debugging, log analysis, root cause analysis, and incident response.
• Experience with SQL databases, APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development methodologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industrial automation, robotics, manufacturing, warehouse automation, or material handling experience.
• Experience with ABB RAPID, PLCs, machine controllers, or industrial communications.
• Experience supporting mission-critical or 24/7 production systems.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, telemetry, and operational support practices.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar platforms.
• Experience leading adoption of AI-assisted coding, testing, debugging, and documentation practices.

Success Profile

• Leads by example as both a technical contributor and people leader.
• Builds a high-performing engineering team focused on quality and reliability.
• Owns production issues and drives sustainable solutions.
• Improves uptime, resiliency, maintainability, and engineering efficiency.
• Collaborates effectively across software, controls, manufacturing, and operations teams.