Team Lead - Software Technology
Rockwell Automation4 days ago
Pune, India or Delhi, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across software design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance, and support.
- Lead architectural and technical design discussions for scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable enterprise software.
- Drive responsible adoption of Microsoft Copilot, agentic AI, and other AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.
- Identify, prototype, and scale AI use cases using Python, APIs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and autonomous or multi-agent patterns.
- Guide Agile execution through planning, backlog refinement, estimation, risk identification, and delivery commitments.
- Review requirements, designs, code, test cases, and documentation for engineering quality and standards.
- Mentor engineers on modern software practices and responsible use of AI coding assistants.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Architects, Engineering Managers, QA, UX, DevOps, data, AI, and global development teams.
- Lead troubleshooting, debugging, integration, and resolution of complex technical issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software development, software design, and enterprise application development.
- 3+ years of experience in a Technical Lead, Team Lead, or comparable technical leadership role.
- 5+ years of experience conducting design reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments.
- Hands-on Python experience for automation, data processing, API integration, prototyping, or AI-enabled application development.
- Practical experience using enterprise generative AI and coding-assistant tools such as Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot.
- Understanding of agentic AI concepts including tool use, orchestration, planning, memory, human-in-the-loop controls, evaluation, and safe deployment.
- Knowledge of large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings or vector search, and AI service APIs.
- Ability to apply responsible AI, cybersecurity, data privacy, intellectual-property, and model-risk controls.
- Strong experience in software architecture, object-oriented design, system integration, debugging, and enterprise application development.
- Experience leading Agile software development teams and participating in SAFe or a similar scaled Agile framework.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Preferred experience with Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, LangChain, or AutoGen.
- Preferred experience building AI-enabled applications on Microsoft Azure, including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, or Microsoft Fabric.
- Preferred experience defining AI evaluation criteria, guardrails, observability, cost controls, and adoption metrics.
- Preferred expertise in Java, data structures, algorithms, enterprise design patterns, modern UI/UX, CI/CD, DevOps, containerization, virtualization, test automation, TDD, or BDD.
- Experience in manufacturing, industrial automation, MES, or consumer products is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive mindfulness programs with a premium Calm membership.
- Volunteer Paid Time Off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees.
- Company volunteer and donation matching program.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Personalized wellbeing programs through the OnTrack program.
- On-demand digital course library for professional development.
- Hybrid work in Pune or Noida, with employees expected at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless business obligations require otherwise.
- Up to 10% travel is required.
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About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation builds industrial control hardware and factory software for manufacturers, and sells services and systems to design, operate, and maintain automated plants. Its Allen-Bradley controllers, drives, and safety products pair with FactoryTalk software and MES to support discrete and process industries. Founded in 1903 and headquartered in Milwaukee, it is a public company on the NYSE (ROK) with global sales, partners, and OEM customers.