Eaton
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eaton.com
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What You’ll Do
If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team, winning is fun. Eaton's Electrical Engineering Services & Systems division is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its Advanced Distribution Planning System (ADPS) platform, based in Pune, India. At Eaton, we are committed to making work exciting, engaging, and meaningful while fostering a culture of safety, wellness, inclusion, and diversity.
As part of a multidisciplinary development team, the Lead Software Engineer will lead the design, development, and evolution of the next generation of Eaton’s cloud-native ADPS platform used for the analysis and modeling of electricity distribution networks and renewable energy systems.
We are looking for a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer with strong expertise in C#, .NET, Azure Cloud, microservices, and SaaS platform development. The role requires a strong technical leader who can drive architecture-level decisions while remaining hands-on in the design and implementation of scalable, secure, reliable, and high-performance platform solutions. The ideal candidate will demonstrate architectural thinking, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a passion for mentoring engineers, driving engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation across the software development lifecycle.
- Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of core ADPS platform services using modern C# and .NET.
- Lead the design and development of cloud-native ADPS solutions leveraging C++, .NET, Azure, and AKS technologies.
- Drive end-to-end solution delivery, including platform architecture, backend services, engine integration, performance optimization, and scalable cloud deployment.
- Analyze product requirements, technical specifications, and engineering use cases to define scalable and secure solutions.
- Own the technical direction of assigned platform components, services, and integration interfaces.
- Design reusable frameworks, shared services, common platform capabilities, and well-defined application programming interfaces.
- Drive architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and engineering decisions across product teams.
- Design distributed, cloud-native, and multi-tenant solutions with appropriate resiliency, security, observability, and performance.
- Remain hands-on by developing critical components, resolving complex technical issues, and creating technical prototypes.
- Review pull requests and ensure adherence to coding standards, design patterns, SOLID principles, and secure development practices.
- Define and improve unit testing, code coverage, automated quality checks, and continuous integration and delivery practices.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, User Interface, Engine, Quality Assurance, DevOps, cybersecurity, and architecture teams.
- Support effort estimation, release planning, dependency management, technical risk assessment, and delivery execution.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability, maintainability, deployment efficiency, monitoring, and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Drive platform modernization, cloud adoption, performance optimization, technical-debt reduction, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and development tools, including artificial intelligence-assisted engineering solutions.
- Mentor and coach engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Prepare and maintain architecture decisions, design specifications, interface documentation, deployment guidance, and operational documentation.
Qualifications
- BE/B.TEch degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- ME/M.Tech Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited institution.
Experience
- 8-12 years of software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams or serving as a Technical Lead or Lead Engineer.
- Strong hands-on experience in modern C# and .NET or .NET Core, C++ application development.
- Experience building enterprise-scale cloud-native applications and software platforms.
- Experience designing distributed, scalable, secure, and highly available systems.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, microservices, REST-based services, and relational databases.
- Experience with containerization, continuous integration and delivery, source control, and modern DevOps practices.
- Strong experience working in Agile or Scrum software development environments.
- Utility, energy, engineering analytics, geographic information systems, or a similar domain is preferred.
Skills
Required:
- C#, .NET or .NET Core, ASP.NET Web APIs, REST APIs, and Entity Framework.
- Microsoft Azure and cloud-native application design.
- Microservices architecture, distributed systems, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
- SQL Server or PostgreSQL, data modeling, query optimization, and caching strategies.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps or GitHub, and continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- Application security, authentication and authorization, secure coding, and vulnerability remediation.
- Automated unit testing, code quality practices, logging, monitoring, observability, and performance troubleshooting.
Preferred
- Event-driven architecture, Domain-Driven Design, and asynchronous processing patterns.
- Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
- Redis caching, GraphQL, and application programming interface versioning.
- Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies.
- Software as a Service and multi-tenant platform architecture.
- Utility domain knowledge and exposure to CYME or ADPS solutions.
- Strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and structured problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to mentor engineers, provide constructive technical guidance, and influence without direct authority.
- Ability to balance near-term business priorities with long-term platform sustainability.
- Strong ownership, accountability, execution focus, and attention to software quality.
- Effective prioritization, planning, risk management, and time management.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with global and cross-functional teams.
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