Software Engineering Team Lead - Industrial Automation & Robotics Platform
Description
Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at .
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.
Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.