18/09/2025 Principal /Architect -Software Development

Job Description

In India, Barry-Wehmiller operates as a hub of innovation and collaboration, housing our Global Competency Center (GCC) and other strategic functions. The GCC, based in Chennai, is an Engineering Center of Excellence that supports all Barry-Wehmiller divisions globally. The center focuses on areas such as design and development in mechanical, electrical, and controls engineering, software development, and additive manufacturing.

Position Description:

- A Senior Digital Innovation Software Development Engineer is expected to help design, develop, and build the enterprise architecture supporting and accelerating digital products and services at BW. This position will be part of a collaborative, purposeful and passionate team in the manufacturing industry operating with agility and leveraging modern development practices.
- The role is expected to build solutions with careful consideration for high level design, technical debt, extendibility, security, and scalability in a manner that minimizes ongoing resource consumption, support & maintenance costs whilst ensuring the solutions deliver value to end users and enables digital service offerings.
- This includes the development and deployment of secure, scalable, and value driving industrial IoT solutions for BWs industrial equipment. These solutions will enable actionable data-driven insights into production and aftermarket processes for BW and its customers. BWs Industrial IoT stack spans a wide range of modern technologies including edge computing infrastructure and applications, cloud-native data processing & persistence services in Azure, and extensible web applications for business intelligence.

Job Specifications:

- Expertise with modern software development engineering best practices, including Agile Scrum.
- Expertise with development and deployment to cloud hyper-scaler environments, particularly Azure.
- Expertise in application containerization and containerization deployment technologies (e.g. Docker, k8s, etc).
- Expertise in IoT, distributed cloud-native systems, and event-driven systems.
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) development and deployment, particularly with Terraform.
- Expertise with Typescript (preferred), JavaScript, and NodeJS with a particular emphasis on server-side or back-end cloud-native application development.
- Expertise with managing and leveraging automated deployment pipelines, CI/CD concepts, and application of testing best-practices.
- Lead by example, foster teamwork and inspire team members to be customer and quality focused.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with diligence and accuracy.
- Show leadership courage, challenge stakeholders as appropriate & demonstrate conflict resolution skills.
- Take a highly ambiguous task and provide clear concise implementation details; ability to effectively organize, prioritize, influence technical audience, and execute work in matrixed, complex environments.
- Strong written and oral communication including presentation skills with ability to articulate technical solutions to a diverse audience.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships both within the team and with external stakeholders. Ability to exhibit a high level of responsibility, initiative, accountability, and work autonomously.

Required Education and Experience:

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent working experience.
- 5+ years experience with software development and engineering.
- 4+ years experience with hyper-scaler (Azure preferred) development, deployment, and monitoring.
- 2+ years experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling, preferably Terraform, in production environments.
- Strong generalized understanding of programming data structures, design patterns, and best practices.
- Working experience with Typescript & NodeJS, particularly within the context of Azure Functions, is preferred.
- Experience with Unit Testing, Integration Testing, and CI testing automation, in production environments.
- Experience using Git within a collaborative team environment.
- Experience with and technical understanding of modern application containerization practices.
- Experience integrating open-source technologies in a commercial environment is ideal.
- Experience developing & delivering solutions for manufacturing or industrial sectors is ideal.
- Experience developing modern UIs & dynamic data visualizations with HTML and CSS is ideal.
- Experience working on a production SQL and/or non-relational databases at scale is ideal.

Travel:

- Occasional domestic and/or global travel may be required for this position up to 15%.

What s in it for you:

This role is more than just a job. It s an opportunity to be part of a global team that values people excellence, innovative solutions, and operational excellence. Barry-Wehmiller provides a unique environment where you can grow your skills, work on impactful projects, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. In addition, we are deeply committed to your personal and professional growth, fostering a culture that helps you achieve your full potential.

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