Digital Innovation Software Engineering Leader

About Us:

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description:

The DI Software Engineering Leader leads the planning, execution, and continuous improvement of software engineering development, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality, secure, and compliant systems. This role is pivotal in driving measurable outcomes such as improved project and product delivery timelines, increased team productivity, reduced defect rates, and realizing business objectives. The position is ideally suited to an energetic and intellectually curious individual who will be part of a collaborative, purposeful, and passionate team in the manufacturing industry operating with agility and leveraging modern architecture, tools & processes.

Responsibilities include actively managing team performance by setting clear, quantifiable objectives, providing structured feedback, and fostering professional growth through targeted coaching and mentorship while maintaining a culture of psychology safety, accountability, and people-first mentality. This role has direct managerial responsibility and oversees resource planning, talent acquisition, and people management for a single software engineer team.

Effective stakeholder engagement through structured relationship management is critical to the success of this role. The Engineer Leader is responsible for integrating comprehensive people, process, and technology solutions to drive innovation, strengthen organizational capabilities, and deliver sustained, measurable benefits aligned with the strategic goals of internal stakeholders and product owners.

The leader facilitates the ongoing organizational adoption of valuable practices and culture such as product-led strategy, value-mapping, iterative investment, and genuine agile methods. Cultural objectives and alignment emphasize a blameless approach, psychological safety, autonomy, grace, ownership, and fostering a team mindset for both successes and setbacks, all aimed at supporting a harmonious balance of people and performance.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

Software Development & System Management

• •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.

Performance Management

• •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.

Resourcing

• •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.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• •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.

Organizational Capability Development

• •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.

Required Education and Experience

• •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.

Personal Attributes

• •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 enviro